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Three selected as Administrative Fellows for 2021-22
May 06, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The Administrative Fellows Program offers Penn State faculty and staff the opportunity to work with senior University officers to gain knowledge and experiences pertaining to the challenges of leadership in the academic community.
For the 2021-22 academic year, the Administrative Fellows are:
Carrie Jackson, professor of German and linguistics, College of the Liberal Arts. Her mentor will be Nicholas Jones, Penn State executive vice president and provost.
Erica Smithwick, distinguished professor of geography; associate director, Institutes of Energy and the Environment; director, Ecology Institute; and director, Center for Landscape Dynamics, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. Her mentor will be Lora Weiss, senior vice president for Research.
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“He has exploited these discoveries to develop a truly novel and intriguing technology for the delivery of therapeutic proteins to cells, which has the potential to revolutionize protein delivery.”
Schmitt’s research focuses on understanding viral and host protein interactions that contribute to the formation of paramyxovirus particles and developing new strategies to exploit these interactions and inhibit virus replication.
In recent years, his research group discovered a way to manipulate virus-like particles so that they will package any protein of interest as cargo. This finding led to the development of a new protein delivery technology in which therapeutic proteins, such as CRISPR enzymes, are incorporated into virus-like particles, which then deliver the contents to the cytoplasms of target cells.
Hundreds of Penn State faculty have contributed to the Course Review Transfer System
Sean Yoder April 22, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The raw numbers are staggering: nearly 87,000 courses have been added to the Credit Transfer Tool since 2016. More than 90% of reviewed courses have some type of equivalency at Penn State, and over 50% have a direct equivalency to a Penn State course.
Among the 200-plus faculty reviewers, three Penn State professors have completed nearly 20,000 of the transfer course reviews.
What this means for transfer students (and current students looking to transfer in credits) is the hard work completed at other institutions of higher education will translate into better quality credits at Penn State. For the academic discipline communities, this system ensures that courses are evaluated by faculty who are actively working in that field, thereby protecting the integrity of a Penn State education.
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