Urban Co-Works hosting free networking event

Urban Co-Works is hosting a free networking event on Tuesday, September 8 from 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

The event will be at the Urban Co-Works building located at 116 North Washington Avenue 3rd Floor Scranton, PA.

‘Networking 5 to 7″ is designed to foster connections and collaboration among professionals in diverse industries. Attendees will be able to exchange ideas, forge partnerships, and explore opportunities in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. Entrepreneurs, freelancers, and corporate professionals are all welcome.

You can secure your spot for this event here.

Urban Co-Works hosting free First Friday coworking event

Urban Co-Works is hosting a free First Friday Co-Working event that’s open to professionals throughout the region.

It will be on Friday, September 4 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Urban Co-Works building at 116 North Washington Avenue 3rd Floor Scranton, PA.

Attendees will be able to get their work done in a distraction-free environment. Freelancers, entrepreneurs, remote workers, and office workers are all welcome.

You can reserve a spot for this event here.

WVIA News wins six Professional Keystone Media Awards

WVIA News won six Professional Keystone Media Awards from the Pennsylvania Newsmedia Association (PNA) for its 2025 journalism.

The honorees are:

● Sarah Hofius Hall — First Place, Sports Beat Reporting, Beyond the Scoreboard
● Borys Krawczeniuk — Honorable mention, News Beat Reporting, politics and gov’t
● Lydia McFarlane — Honorable mention, Feature Story, Clarks Summit memory cafe
● Haley O’Brien — 2nd place, lifestyle & entertainment beat, 1st & 2nd for features videos

“When we made the commitment to expand local journalism, we did so because we believed our communities deserved trusted, in-depth reporting that informs, connects, and serves the public. We never imagined our newsroom would achieve so much in such a short time,” WVIA President & CEO Carla McCabe said. “These awards are a reflection of the dedication of our journalists and the power of public media to tell the stories that matter to the communities we serve.”

The Harrisburg-based PNA organizes the annual awards contest to recognize “journalism that consistently provides relevance, integrity, and initiative in serving readers and audiences, and faithfully fulfills its First Amendment rights/responsibilities.”

The awards will be presented October 8 at the Keystone Media Awards Luncheon in Harrisburg.

The University of Scranton Virtual HamSCI Workshop

The fourth annual HamSCI Workshop 2021 for amateur radio operators and professional scientists will be held in a virtual format on Friday and Saturday, March 19-20. The University of Scranton will serve as host for the Zoom webinar, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), that will include addresses by guest speakers, poster presentations and demonstrations of relevant instrumentation and software.

Participation is free through support from the NSF and the University. The theme of this year’s workshop is midlatitude ionospheric science.

The workshop will also serve as a team meeting for the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station project, which is a NSF funded project awarded to University of Scranton physics and electrical engineering professor Nathaniel Frissell, Ph.D. The project seeks to harness the power of a network of licensed amateur radio operators to better understand and measure the effects of weather in the upper levels of Earth’s atmosphere.

The workshop’s keynote address on the “History of Radio” will be given by Elizabeth Bruton, Ph.D., curator of technology and engineering at the Science Museum of London. She will discuss the history, science, technology and licensing of radio amateur communities from the early 1900s through to the present day, exploring how individuals and communities contributed to “citizen science” long before the term entered popular usage in the 1990s. Dr. Bruton has been a non-licensed member of Oxford and District Amateur Radio Society since 2014 and their web manager since 2015.

J. Michael Ruohoniemi, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech and principal investigator of the Virginia Tech SuperDARN Initiative, will review the physics of the midlatitude ionosphere and discuss ways in which the amateur radio community can contribute to advancing scientific understanding and technical capabilities. Joe Dzekevich K1YOW, an amateur radio citizen scientist who recently published his work in CQ Magazine, will present “Amateur Radio Observations and The Science of Midlatitude Sporadic E.” The event will also include virtual oral presentations by researchers from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MIT Haystack Observatory, the University of Oslo, the University of Bath, Case Western Reserve University, Dartmouth College. the University of Alabama, Clemson University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and The University of Scranton, among others.

University students Veronica Romanek (KD2UHN), Hampton, New Jersey; Cuong Nguyen, Ashley; and M. Shaaf Sarwar (KC3PVF), Lahore, Punjab, are among the iposter presenters.

A full schedule of speakers and registration information can be found on the HamSCI Workshop 2021 website.