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 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 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.
Since the 1989 bobcat release, researchers have returned to the island many times to collect bobcat scat like this from which to extract DNA to monitor the population’s genetic health.
There are now 24 bobcats on Cumberland Island, a barrier island off the coast of Georgia, which is separated from the mainland by open water that prevents bobcats from the mainland from immigrating.
