Below we have stories of faculty and students making the adjustment to online learning with success and ingenuity, including courses that require hands-on work like capstone design projects. We also have stories of faculty shifting their research focus from fields like cancer and stem cells and applying their skills to fight the pandemic. We even have a story about a graduate student who defended her thesis over Zoom.

 

Through it all, there is a single thread that ties it all together: collaboration. We have a long history of collaboration with other departments in the Penn State College of Engineering, Penn State entities such the Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, the College of Medicine and others, researchers at other universities, and industry. We are now leveraging these partnerships to develop real solutions for the current pandemic and future ones.

 

We are sharing our stories with the hope of inspiring even more collaboration among our peers to defeat this pandemic. Many thanks for your continued support of our work, and may all of you stay safe and healthy.

Sincerely, 

Cheng Dong

Head of the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering