The first EDGE pilot course was delivered in Spring 2018 by Claudia Tanaskovic, Assistant Teaching Professor of Chemistry at the Beaver Campus. She collaborated on an industry-based project which involves the laboratory scale production of soap and extraction of different essences with chemistry students at the University of Split in Croatia via web conferencing. Above: one of her students in the lab. (Picture from 2018).
Scott Cunningham, right, stands with Darryl Polzot, on the campus of Penn State Beaver. Cunningham, who is the Penn State Beaver Advisory Board president, and Polzot met at Penn State Beaver in the late 1970s and are still friends today.
Penn State is planning a phased return over the summer semester to a full on-campus learning environment for fall 2021. The University’s priorities continue to be the health and well-being of its students, faculty, staff and local communities, and the plans for expanded in-person classes have the flexibility built in to quickly respond to changing pandemic conditions, if necessary.
Penn State Beaver THON dancers, from left, Allyson Pinchot, Samantha Freed and Marissa King show their spirit during the annual THON weekend. This year, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the women danced in the Penn State Beaver Student Union Building Lodge.
Penn State Beaver THON dancers and supporters get ready for the weekend of dancing to begin. Dancers for the campus are Samantha Freed, Marissa King and Allyson Pinchot. They will be dancing in the Lodge on Penn State Beaver's campus.
The reintroduction of 32 bobcats to an island off the coast of Georgia more than three decades ago created an ideal experiment to examine the accuracy of a genetic-modeling technique that predicts extinction of isolated wildlife populations.
The research showed that without any human intervention to restore the loss of genetic diversity in the bobcat population on Cumberland Island — perhaps by introducing a bobcat from the mainland every four or five years — the animals will likely disappear from the island over time.
The researchers also assessed the bobcat population on Kiawah Island, off the coast of South Carolina. They determined that, unlike Cumberland Island, bobcats do occasionally travel on and off Kiawah, likely over a bridge for vehicles.
