“These exceptional students are thinking about ways to mitigate disease with novel drug discovery, to improve learning using virtual reality, to address alcohol abuse in targeted geographies, and more. I am so proud of them all,” said Darcy Medica, director of academic affairs at Penn State Schuylkill.

Following the conference, five scholars were selected as winners and are eligible to be considered to present at the Penn State Eastern Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium in spring 2023. They are Ethan Carvajal, Bethany Haag, Katheryn Joyce, Andrew Sepp and Alexis Snyder. After the campus’s spring Student Research and Scholarship Conference, winners of both sessions will be evaluated, those with the highest scores in each category earning the ability to participate in the regional event.

The full list of student presentations is available to view here.

Penn State Schuylkill is proud to offer a strong research community on campus, where students are committed to exploring their passions and curiosities across a wide breadth of disciplines, alongside fellow peers and faculty, as early as their first semester of studies.

Students interested in participating in the research conference in the future should reach out to Song at [email protected] or Smith at [email protected].