Penn State CHANCE — Connecting Humans And Nature through Conservation Experiences — is offering students hands-on research experience in Greece this summer. Students will study, develop solutions to reduce plastic pollution in Aegean Sea.
Films like “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas” have created indelible stereotypes about those involved in organized crime. This summer, 19 Penn State students learned the real history behind the Mafia during “Organized Crime in Film and Society,“ a three-week course taught on site in different locations in Palermo and Rome, Italy.
Penn State Lehigh Valley’s CHANCE (Connecting Humans And Nature through Conservation Experiences) Program is offering students from any Penn State campus the opportunity for a unique, short-term study abroad program in Romania during the spring and summer months of 2022.
Penn State alumnus Solomon "Sol" Taylor is putting his project and supply chain management degree to work through his successful wholesale import company.
Along with their professors and instructors, 35 Penn State Lehigh Valley students got to see new parts of the world and expand their learning and understanding of course material during a short-term study abroad program over spring break.
Some highlights of the CHANCE Australia program include research with the JCU Turtle Health Research Team on sea and freshwater turtle health and viral outbreaks, and participation in the Great Barrier Reef Monitoring Program, among other experiences.