Expertise
- Carleen Maitland, professor, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of her alma mater, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
- A paper co-authored by undergraduate researcher Gregory Glatzer, titled “A Socio-Ecological Approach to Understanding How Land Use Challenges Human-Elephant Coexistence in Northern Tanzania,” was published last week in a special issue of the journal Diversity, “Elephants: Moving from Conflict to Coexistence with People.” In the project, Glatzer conducted spatial data analysis of elephant movement in northern Tanzania. His research helped his co-authors better understand how the movement of elephants changes in relation to changing land use and land coverage.
Standout students
- Jingyi Xie, doctoral student of informatics, won first place in the engineering category at the 2022 Graduate Exhibition at Penn State, for her presentation, “Iterative Design and Prototyping of Computer Vision Mediated Remote Sighted Assistance.” She also presented the work at the 2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI) in May, and the research has been pre-published in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
- Glen Hubbard, a rising senior studying enterprise technology integration, received a Peter T. Luckie Award for Outstanding Juniors in the Social and Behavioral Sciences category at the 2022 Undergraduate Exhibition for Research, Inquiry, and Creative Activity. His research also received honorable mention in the exhibition’s University Libraries Undergraduate Research Award for Excellence in Information Literacy category. Additionally, his work, “Using Citizen Science to Generate Meaningful Research Questions,” was recognized with an honorable mention for the 2022 Undergraduate Research Award: Excellence in Information Literacy honors by Penn State University Libraries this spring.
- Na Li, doctoral student of informatics, and her co-authors received the best paper award at the 2022 ACM Conference on Learning at Scale — a first for the College of IST — for their paper, “Picturing One’s Self: Camera Use in Zoom Classes during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The research explored reasons why students did or did not turn on their cameras in remote classes during the pandemic.
Alumni achievements
- Isabella Webster, class of 2020, is one of seven new Penn State alumni leaders elected to serve on the University’s Alumni Council, an all-volunteer governing body that advises and guides the Penn State Alumni Association on programs and initiatives to uphold its mission of service and support to Penn State. Her three-year term begins July 1.
College news
- Congratulations to Lynette Yarger and Sharon Huang, both of whom have been promoted to professor, and to Ting Wang, who has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor. The new appointments are effective as of July 1.
- Jeffrey Bardzell, professor of information sciences and technology and associate dean of undergraduate and graduate studies, is one of six new fellows from Penn State in 2022-23 selected for the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program. The ALP focuses on addressing the challenges of academic administration at major research universities.