Six Penn State Great Valley students presented four research projects at the 2025 Graduate Exhibition, hosted by the Fox Graduate School. This event offered the students a professional development experience with opportunities to network and practice their communication skills as they explained their projects, the methods they used and the impact of their work in areas ranging from geographically targeted opioid interventions to affordable cybersecurity practices for nonprofit organizations.
At this free community event, held at 7 p.m. on May 7 in Penn State Great Valley's conference center, historian and researcher Dionne Patterson will explain the connection between the Underground Railroad and Valley Forge Park.
Forty-two graduate students received Penn State's annual recognition awards that celebrate students' impact in research, scholarship, teaching, outreach, mentoring and more.
The fall 2024 cohort of the Penn State Emerging Academic Leaders program have successfully completed their semester-long professional development experience.
Beginning April 1 at Penn State Great Valley's Henry Art Gallery, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Huiwon Lim and his students will exhibit works that translate complex data into accessible visuals about climate change, community resilience and creative solutions. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, April 2, from 3 to 6 p.m.
At this community event, attendees and panelists will discuss the power of trees to save lives and provide for the future. The panel, featuring two arboretum directors and renowned ecologist and National Geographic Explorer at Large Nalini Nadkarni, will lead guests in envisioning the expansion of tree canopies for resilience in Penn's Woods.
Degree-seeking graduate students from all Penn State colleges and campuses looking to share their research and scholarly achievements with a wide-ranging audience are invited to register for the 2025 Graduate Exhibition, taking place Friday, March 28, on the University Park campus.
Two graduate students in Penn State Great Valley’s data analytics program, Praneeth Sunkavalli and Jainil Kakka, won second place for their research poster at a recent symposium hosted by the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences. For their research project, they used machine learning to analyze event data from soccer games to measure the success rates of a defensive tactic called "pressing," when players pressure their opponents in an attempt to regain the ball.
A draft proposal of Penn State’s institutional strategic plan has been unveiled and shared with the community for feedback and discussion. All faculty, staff and students at all campuses are encouraged to visit the Strategic Plan website to review and provide feedback on the draft plans for four goal areas.
Two Penn State Great Valley graduate students are collaborating with faculty — who received a University Presidential Public Impact Research Award — to conduct a research project that will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze demographic data to help predict and prevent opioid deaths.
