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Raffy Luquis

Raffy R. Luquis, professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State Harrisburg, was named to the 2022 POWER 100 Who’s Who in Latino Pennsylvania.

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Madylene Triplett demonstrates how to solder for fellow members of her high school robotics team. Triplett, a former Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science camper, is now a first-year Penn State engineering student.

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Camp to campus: A first-year student’s path to engineering

Madylene Triplett first stepped onto a Penn State campus when she was 13 to attend summer camps hosted by the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. During the camps, she programmed robots, designed and built a vacuum, and spoke with women engineers from NASA, Google and elsewhere. Now, she is on her way to becoming one of those engineers herself, as she steps back onto a Penn State campus, this time as a first-year student. 
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Penn State has launched a two-year pilot program, a news literacy initiative, to enhance students’ appreciation and understanding of news literacy and to provide students, as well as residents across the Commonwealth, with resources and support as they attempt to avoid misinformation and find quality news sources.

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Penn State has launched a two-year pilot program, a news literacy initiative, to enhance students’ appreciation and understanding of news literacy and to provide students, as well as residents across the Commonwealth, with resources and support as they attempt to avoid misinformation and find quality news sources.