More than 70 golfers participated in this year's golf outing, which raised $30,000 for scholarships to support graduate students at Penn State Great Valley. Penn State women's soccer head coach Erica Dambach spoke to reception attendees about the discipline of focusing on their attitudes.
Data analytics alum Rahul Vemuri honed his skills in organizing large datasets predictive modeling to make sound business decisions. He showcased his skills during an industry partnership project and internship with PQ LLC. His talent in uncovering patterns and insights from the data impressed PQ’s leadership, leading to a full-time position as a data engineer specializing in market forecasting.
The University Staff Advisory Council (USAC) recognized three outstanding Penn State staff members with 2025 USAC Staff Awards, recognizing their efforts above and beyond their normally assigned job responsibilities and their embodiment of the Penn State Values.
A team of Penn State Great Valley professors and students studied how well large language models, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can solve data science coding challenges. The researchers presented their work at the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories and won the Distinguished Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Software Engineering.
On May 9, Penn State Great Valley held a commencement ceremony honoring 474 students who have completed their graduate degrees this past academic year. MBA alumna Rina Desai, principal/owner of Eigen X, a professional services firm focused on data and technology, gave the keynote address.
Nominations are now open for the first round of scholarships made possible through The Endowment for The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School. The first round includes general scholarships, dissertation completion awards, summer research funding, and military and veteran student scholarships.
Chastidy Joanem took advantage of all the opportunities she could manage at Penn State Abington while working multiple jobs and earning credits toward a master’s degree.
Penn State Scranton Assistant Professor of Business Nonna Sorokina gave a presentation on research exploring sustainable energy investments. The research involved collaboration with several colleagues, including Saya Lee, assistant professor in the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State, and Darshana Sunoj and Hyungjin Kim, graduates of the Penn State Department of Economics.
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.
