From left are Rachel Galloway, immediate past-chair of the University Staff Advisory Council (USAC); Angela Dixon, department head staff assistant in the Department of Chemical Engineering and recipient of the 2025 USAC Staff Morale Award; Alex Zimmerman, multimedia specialist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and recipient of the 2025 USAC Staff Excellence Award; Andrew Pron, director of instructional design at Penn State Great Valley and recipient of the 2025 USAC Staff Leadership Award; Jennifer Wilkes, vice president for Human Resources; and Matthew Heller, chair-elect of USAC.
Organizers of the 2025 International Conference on Mining Software Repositories celebrated exemplary research with awards. Penn State Great Valley assistant software engineering professors Nathalia Nascimento and Everton Guimarães, second and third from left, received the Distinguished Paper Award for their work studying the effectiveness of four large language models in solving data science coding problems, with assistance from two student researchers.
