Check out this video showcasing an app called Serenity, designed by Penn State Behrend VAR Lab students and professors, aimed at helping users combat mental illness by tracking their emotions and offering resources and activities to ease stress and depression. Link: https://www.yourerie.com/video/app-designed-to-combat-mental-illness-designed-by-psu-students-and-professors/6470467/
Check out this news cast about a team of students from VAR who have developed a mental health and mindfulness app to help combat stress and depression during the pandemic. The app tracks users' emotions and suggests activities and resources to ease their mental health struggles. This is a great example of the innovative work
I am an undergraduate researcher working for VAR Lab under a grant that is allowing me to be paid to do public relations research that will later be used to develop a public relations campaign. This research is being conducted for a majority of the summer of 2020 under the Penn State Behrend 2020 Undergraduate
VAR Labs has been up for almost a year now, and although there have been many visitors to the lab including department chairs and other important members of the school, nothing has been bigger than STEAM fair. On February 10th, 1,500+ people attended Penn State Behrend's sixth-annual Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) fair.
