Daniel Russell, teaching professor and distance education coordinator in the Penn State College of Engineering Graduate Program in Acoustics, has been pairing virtual backgrounds with various costumes to bring humor and positivity to his students and colleagues. Here he is dressed as Gandalf from J.R.R. Tolkien's book, "The Hobbit."
Charlotte de Vries, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Behrend, has been using custom Zoom backgrounds to better engage with students in a remote-learning environment.
