“Sometimes you take a journey, and it takes a very long time," said Florence Tan, deputy chief technologist of the Space Mission Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "The journey requires many, many boosts. It takes great teamwork, great effort, and timing is everything. Squeeze every last advantage to get your journey, and if nature offers you a way to get there, I think you should take it.” Tan spoke to students and members of the public at Penn State New Kensington on March 28. Her motivational lecture, "Gravity Assists," taught audience members to pay attention to the gravity assists found not just in space travel and engineering, but also in life. Over the years, Tan has been a systems engineer, designer, manager and instrument operator at Goddards and helped build, launch and operate many space flight mass spectrometers on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover, Cassini Orbitor, Cassini-Huygens Probe, MAVEN, LADEE and ExoMars spacecraft.
Join Penn State alumni and friends at the annual Alumni Bowl-A-Thon on Sunday, March 24, for a day of fun…and fundraising. For more information, call 724-334-6057or email Kary C. Milan, director of development and alumni relations.
Maranie Rae, a Pittsburgh-based photographer, journalist and human-rights advocate, will feature her works in Penn State New Kensington’s Art Gallery from April 9-29.
Shane Molyneau, sophomore centerfielder for New Kensington, and Jim Perry, coach of the Penn State New Kensington baseball team, help clear out a Florida home damaged by Hurricane Irma in Sept. 2017. Molyneaux and Perry were joined by other members of New Kensington's baseball team on March 8 to aid resident Dwight Popovic who had been living at a hotel since the storm. Work done by the team during their spring break trip made it possible for contactors to begin drywall work on the home.
Tyler Kline, junior pitcher from Penn State New Kensington, speaks to Dwight Popovic of Ft. Myers, Florida. Popovic's home was ravaged by Hurricane Irma in Sept. 2017. Kline and members of the New Kensington baseball team assisted Popovic in clearing debris from his home during their spring training trip so that contractors could begin drywall work.
