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Two female students with a male faculty member examing a specimen at a museum

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Penn State York students Nhi Nguyen, left, and Cheyenne Baughman, center, are undertaking a work-study assignment with faculty member Jorge Santiago Blay, right, to photograph the bird specimens from the George Miller Bird Collection at Nixon Park in York, Pennsylvania.

Dead bees in wooden display cases.

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Jorge Santiago-Blay has been carefully collecting every bee students and volunteers working with him have found at Nixon Park in York, Pennsylvania, in the hopes of better understanding the biodiversity of the area.

Two female students with a male faculty member examing a specimen at a museum

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Penn State York students Nhi Nguyen, left, and Cheyenne Baughman, center, are undertaking a work-study assignment with faculty member Jorge Santiago Blay, right, to photograph the bird specimens from the George Miller Bird Collection at Nixon Park in York, Pennsylvania.

Three females college student at a table assembling pinwheels, male and female classmates in the background doing the same

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Brianna Gonzalez, Liz Herrero Reynosa and Corrinne Oswald, left to right, along with other Penn State York HDFS students, assembled about 250 pinwheels in preparation for the program and candlelight vigil focusing on child abuse prevention set for Wednesday, April 5 at 12:15 p.m. at Penn State York.

Secrets of individuals written of paper and pinned to a bullertin board

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A "Share a Secret" Board displaying impactful messages written by members of the campus community are part of the IMALIVE Mental Health Fair set for Tuesday, April 4, at Penn State York. Submissions for the board will be accepted until the day of the fair, and then displayed at the event. Reese Butler, founder of 1-800-SUICIDE, will speak to conclude the event, sharing his story and answering questions. 

Faculty member pointing at screen with students seated at a table with laptops and others pictured on screen remotely

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Bill Cantor, assistant teaching professor in information sciences and technology at Penn State York, works with student is his MIS 404 (Introduction to ERP and Businesses Processes) offered on the Digital Learning Cooperative.  Cantor is with students on campus and those on Zoom are pictured on the screen in the campus' newly renovated classroom featuring the latest technology.

Virtual reality classroom with students seated at tabels, faculty member wearing VR headset embedded in lower right of photo

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Students pictured are working in a virtual reality environment in teams in separate areas in MIS 404, offered on the Digital Learning Cooperative (DLC).  Meanwhile, Bill Cantor, assistant teaching professor in Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State York and instructor for the course, pictured in the lower right corner wearing a headset, shares his screen with the class. For a portion of his class this semester, students used Meta Quest 2 headsets with Horizon Workrooms to bring together students from Penn State York, Abington, and Harrisburg.