Giving Tuesday at Penn State DuBois raised nearly $3,000 to support the Penn State DuBois Future Fund. Gifts from alumni, friends, faculty and staff, as well as a $1,000 match from Chancellor M. Scott McBride, all contributed to the total.
Fall commencement ceremonies at Penn State DuBois are planned for 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 13, in the campus gymnasium. Barbara Reinard, the 2017-18 DuBois Educational Foundation Educator of the Year, will deliver the commencement address.
This holiday season, students in the Human Development and Family Studies Club at Penn State DuBois continued their tradition of helping local individuals in need. Club members purchased items and assembled holiday care packages. They delivered those packages to area shelters that serve people who have been displaced from their homes, or who are victims of domestic violence.
Students in the Penn State DuBois Administration of Justice program recently got a real-world lesson on a trending form of punishment known as reintegrative shaming. While none of the students actually committed any crimes, their assignment required them to wear signs describing a crime in order to simulate punishment.
Students displayed signs along Route 255 in front of campus during a reintegrative shaming exercise for their criminology class. Though the students committed no crimes, the intention was for them to experience how effective this form of punishment can be.
New course and lab offerings available for the first time at Penn State DuBois will help local students aspiring to work in health care fields receive more of their education close to home. Beginning in the spring 2019 semester, Penn State DuBois will offer Chem 212 and Chem 213, which are Organic Chemistry and a lab in Organic Chemistry.
Penn State DuBois Associate Professor of Mathematics and Geoscience Neyda Abreu has earned the opportunity of a lifetime. She has been invited to join an international research team with the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) to analyze material collected from asteroids during space missions. Abreu described the opportunity, saying, “I have just been given the chance to touch a thread in the fabric of the universe.”
