Designing robots and testing equipment that monitors patients’ vital signs will be hands-on projects in the fall for Penn State New Kensington students in the engineering technology programs. Karl Harris, instructor and coordinator of the Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology (EMET) program, and Joie Marhefka, senior instructor and coordinator of the Biomedical Engineering Technology (BET) program, recently received program enhancement grants from Penn State to upgrade and modernize their respective labs. The purpose of the grants is to fund initiatives that provide new learning environments for students.
First-year students at Penn State New Kensington get ready for the traditional Rainbow Arch photo of the eight Prides of the Class of 2020.The iconic aluminum Arch, designed by Henry Noestheden and donated by Alcoa in 1976, stands at the front entrance to the campus.
Students who are new to Penn State and all students living in University housing are reminded that they must submit their immunization records using myUHS through a new three-step process. As part of this process, students who do not submit their immunization records prior to Sept. 15 will be unable to register for spring 2017 classes.
Like a bride’s wedding dress, the composition of new faculty at Penn State New Kensington features “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue (and white).” Nick Petrucci fits the “old” persona as he departed from the campus in 2011 as a full-time instructor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program and returns in 2016 as a full-time instructor in the Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology program. Penelope Morrison covers the “new” aspect as the first assistant professor of biobehavioral health, in the new Biobehavioral Health (BBH) program that debuts for the fall semester. Joseph Coohill takes on the “borrowed” character as he fills in for Craig Hammond, associate professor of history, who is on a semester sabbatical.
The Penn State New Kensington Alumni Society invites Penn State fans to the annual televised football game party and food drive on Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Elks Lodge on Sixth Street in Tarentum. Game time has not been determined. The Nittany Lions take on the Michigan Wolverines in a Big Ten battle in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the pregame reception begins an hour before kickoff.
Kick off your Sunday shoes and summon your inner Kevin Bacon as auditions for roles in Penn State New Kensington’s “Footloose: The Musical” begin Sept. 2 in the newly renovated Forum Theatre. Director James Baker has put out a call to the campus and community to form the cast of the fall stage production set for Nov. 4-6.
Vera Spina Greenwald, center, president of the Penn State New Kensington Alumni Society, and decked out in a Nittany Lion ensemble, is flanked by her husband Jason Greenwald and Ashley Traini, vice president of the society, at a previous Penn State TV football game at the Elks Lodge.
