Penn State Greater Allegheny has announced a new partnership with Allegheny Health Network’s Research Institute, providing students with opportunities in clinical research and a chance to earn an internship with the Pittsburgh-based health system.
Tammy, New Kensington’s robot, and Jarvis, Greater Allegheny’s robot, help students in biobehavioral health program at the two campuses interact and collaborate.
Kristal Tucker, assistant professor of biology at Penn State Greater Allegheny, speaks with Penelope Morrison, assistant professor of biobehavioral health (BBH) at Penn State New Kensington, via a Beam telepresence robot. The faculty members were able to acquire two robots to be used for the shared BBH program thanks to a Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) REACH grant. The robots are being used in the classrooms to bridge the distance between campuses during distance learning classes.
April Andreozzi, sophomore biobehavioral health (BBH) student at Penn State New Kensington, communicates via a Beam telepresence robot and controls it through her laptop. The new robot enables her to interact with students in the shared program with Penn State Greater Allegheny. The BBH program received the robot through a Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) REACH grant, which is helping bridge the distance between the campuses during distance learning classes.
Sophomore biobehavioral health (BBH) student April Andreozzi, pictured left within the Beam robot, interacts with another BBH student at Penn State Greater Allegheny with the help of the new technology. Andreozzi controls the robot from the New Kensington campus through a laptop computer. The robot enables the shared baccalaureate program to bridge the distance between campuses and increase interactions for students and faculty members.
Students and faculty in the shared biobehavioral health (BBH) program at Penn State New Kensington and Penn State Greater Allegheny are now able to shorten the distance between campuses thanks to modern technology.
Kristal Tucker, pictured left, speaks to Penelope Morrison via a Beam telepresence robot. Morrison, assistant professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State New Kensington, and Tucker, assistant professor of biology at Penn State Greater Allegheny, received the robot through a Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) REACH grant. The robots are being used in the classrooms to bridge the distance between campuses for the shared biobehavioral health program.
Penelope Morrison, assistant professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State New Kensington, interacts with students at the Penn State Greater Allegheny campus via a Beam telepresence robot. The shared biobehavioral health program at the campuses acquired two robots thanks to a grant from Penn State's Teaching and Learning with Technology REACH initiative. Each campus has a robot which allows Morrison and fellow faculty member Kristal Tucker, assistant professor of biology at the Greater Allegheny campus, to "shorten the distance" between distance learning classes.
Fifteen Penn State faculty members have been honored with the title of "distinguished professor" in recognition of their academic contributions to the University.
