Gina Brelsford, professor of psychology in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education at Penn State Harrisburg, has been elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association Division 36 Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, effective in January.
Penn State Harrisburg faculty member Mariah Kupfner was awarded the Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship from the Maryland Center for History and Culture, which will support her in dedicated research in collections at the center’s museum and H. Furlong Baldwin Library.
Eight Penn State faculty-student teams are partnering with community organizations across Pennsylvania to address locally identified challenges — from health access and food security to public safety, education and responsible technology use. These groups are the newest recipients of the McCourtney Presidential Public Impact Research Awards, a program developed under the Presidential Strategic Initiative for Public Impact Research in partnership with the Office of the President, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and the Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative.
The Pennsylvania Center for Latino Research at Penn State Harrisburg will host Nicole Kreisberg, assistant professor of public policy at Penn State, for a presentation on undocumented migration in the United States.
The workshop, titled "Frontiers of Rural Health & AI: Planning for Rural Pennsylvania," will take place on Oct. 30 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the University Conference Center in Hershey. Co-organized by Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, the event aims to identify priority research areas that will directly serve rural communities in Pennsylvania and across the nation.
Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT), part of Penn State University Libraries, has named 21 recipients of the 2026 Faculty Engagement Awards with this year’s theme, “Teaching with AI Glasses: Augmented Reality for Real-Time Learning.”
For undergraduate students interested in the biomedical sciences, the path from the classroom to a career in clinical research can sometimes feel hidden. But through the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute's Undergraduate Clinical Research Training Program, that pathway is more than illuminated — it is a launchpad for the next generation of medical discovery professionals, according to Andrea Stevens, program director.
Penn State graduate students in a research-based degree program are invited to participate in Penn State's annual Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), hosted by the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School. 3MT helps graduate students improve their research communication and presentation skills, permitting just three minutes and one static presentation slide to effectively communicate their research and its impact to an audience outside their field.
A Penn State Harrisburg student was selected to participate in AI4ALL Ignite, a national, no-cost program that helps students build AI skills by pairing cross-institutional student teams with industry mentors for hands-on projects, mentorship and discussions about the broader social impact of AI.
