We did Haunted U again this year - this time, with a Jurassic Park theme! Haunted U is another Eberly College of Science outreach event that the Penn State ASA has had fun with in the past. This year, we brought back the chaldni plates, to talk about vibration in 2...

For our first General Meeting of the Fall 2019 semester, we cooked up an Acoustics Jeopardy! The categories were Famous Acousticians, Fundamentals, We Are [Penn State], Faculty, and Fun Facts. Team Lemon won the competition, but it was very close - it came down to a...

On September 16th 2019, the PSU ASA did another outreach event in partnership with the Eberly College of Science - this time, Think Outside the Beaker! We were able to talk and present about acoustics with 9 local middle school students. The volunteering grad students...

The student chapter participated in the Ask A Scientist event (put on by the Eberly College of Science) at the Centre County Grange Fair on August 23rd 2019. The Grange Fair is a huge phenomenon in the community surrounding Penn State, and the chapter was excited to...

Penn State ASA volunteered in a program called STEM Extension for Summer Academy here on PSU campus. The event engaged blind and visually-impaired high school students in STEM research from which they have previously felt excluded. Students were able to interact with...

Penn State hosted their annual Halloween Science Event “Haunted-U” that spanned out events all over campus. The ASA student chapter hosted a classroom that included a spooky “Stranger Things” decoration theme with fun acoustic demonstrations like the Ghost String...

In the early fall, the student chapter held a booth at the event “Ask a Scientist” at the Grange Fair in rural Centre County, PA. People of all ages came by to ask us about sound and participate in a demonstration of visualizing their own voice through a real-time...