Taylor Easter is the 2025 President's Award winner. One of the university's highest honors, the President's Award recognizes a graduating senior who has contributed the most to Chester campus life through scholarship and participation in extracurricular activities.
Students, faculty and staff are already using AI in their daily lives, but each day there is more to learn. In support of this effort to continually develop AI skills and knowledge, Wolfgram Memorial Library hosted a spring workshop series aimed at tackling AI literacy.
The STEM Teaching Center, formerly known as the Science Teaching Center, is making a big local impact and creating a pathway for students from across the university to engage with the community.
Widener is seeing a spike in new student-run organizations, especially special interest groups.
Widener's dual MBA/MJ program is featured. Tony Wheeler, dean of the school of business administration, and Eileen Grena, assistant dean and executive director of graduate, international, compliance, and legal studies at Delaware Law School, share about the program and the benefits of a dual degree.
Widener MSW candidate Tara L. Johnson authored this opinion article in celebration of May being Older Americans Month.
Pamela McCauley, dean of the School of Engineering, was a panelist at the fifth annual MIT Free Speech Alliance Debate. The debate focused on gender equality in STEM and featured a lively discussion and respectful disagreements between supporting and opposing teams.
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Erika Dawkins specializes in community psychology, trauma, gun violence, microaggressions, and relationships. Her expertise includes couples therapy, body image, self-esteem, self-worth, and strategies for organization and productivity.
Ross Steinman specializes in industrial/organizational psychology, consumer behavior, and decision-making. He researches brand transgressions, implicit attitudes, cross-cultural differences, and automatic consumer choices.
Daniel Roozbahani is an expert in AI, robotics, and VR/AR simulations. He specializes in real-time process monitoring, human-machine interactions, 3D printing, and laser-based technologies, and also focuses on automated manufacturing and custom robot development.
Jeff Lolli is an expert in tourism and hospitality management, including food and beverage, lodging, casinos, events, and sports services. He specializes in service quality, customer satisfaction, experience management, and human resources, and is also knowledgeable in food and alcohol safety, sense of place in tourism, and service environments.
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