As this year’s German and Slavic languages and literatures student marshal, Paterno Fellow and Schreyer Scholar Celeste Belknap has successfully leveraged two of her passions and areas of study: music and Russian culture.
Ceremony scheduled for Sat. May, 4 in campus Athletic Center.
From the start of her college career, Christina McMahon was determined to excel in her academics. In her four years at Penn State, McMahon has been recognized as both Freshman and Sophomore of the Year for the College of Information Sciences and Technology, and earned four Presidential Awards offered through the University. She also earned the Evan Pugh Scholar Senior Award, which means that she is in the top 0.5 percent of her University-wide class at Penn State.
With the goal of preparing scholars from underrepresented groups to succeed in graduate and professional programs, Penn State, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) partnered to develop undergraduate programs aimed at increasing retention and academic performance of historically racially underrepresented undergraduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
In a new study published in the journal Science, the authors describe promising early results in expanding diversity and inclusion in STEM by leveraging lessons learned from successful programs with immersive interinstitutional partnering. This approach could serve as a model for other universities with different populations of students, sizes and cultures.
For her commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion initiatives at the College of Information Sciences and Technology and Penn State, student advocacy specialist Olivia Lewis was recognized with the Council of College Multicultural Leadership’s Way Pavers University Staff Award during a ceremony on April 9.
The fourth annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event was held at Penn State New Kensington on April 16. The event, co-sponsored by the campus' counseling services and athletics departments aimed to bring awareness to the prevention of sexual assault and gender-based violence.
Penn State DuBois is offering fun and educational classes in June for students going into grades 5–12. There are four Academy programs offered during the weeks of June 17 and 24. These programs include topics in crime, law, wildlife, wildlife technology, forensic science, and healthcare.
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Visitors of all ages are invited to join the Woskob Family Gallery for a night of whimsical musical fun for May’s First Friday.
Plumes of air pollution generated from a rapidly expanding city within the Amazon rainforest are wafting hundreds of miles and degrading air quality in the pristine rainforest, according to a team of scientists.
A new publication based on the proceedings of the E+D: Ecology Plus Design Symposium stresses the importance of a true partnership between designers and ecologists from the start of a landscape architecture project, through the design process, and to completion.
Humans settled in southwestern Amazonia and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers.
Haleigh Summers, a master’s degree student in agronomy in the College of Agricultural Sciences, is one of this year’s 18 recipients of the American Society of Agronomy’s Future Leaders in Science Award.
Songbirds that pack on as much as 50 percent of their body weight before migrating and that sleep very little, exhibit altered immune system and tissue-repair function during the journey, which may hold implications for human health, according to Penn State researchers.
Several members of the Penn State liberal arts community were honored during the college's annual Alumni Awards Ceremony on April 12.
