This week's cultural highlights include the return of the Maple Harvest Festival, "Saturday Night Live" comedian Michael Che at Penn State Behrend, the Alumni Association's City Lights in Philadelphia event and a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Three Mile Island at Penn State Harrisburg.
Thirteen students from three campuses observed National Nutrition Month in a fitting way: traveling to Honduras for a spring break service learning trip through Healthy Niños Honduras, a Pennsylvania-based organization that focuses on helping children with malnutrition.
Students traded the snowy Northeast for the sunny Southwest this spring break for a unique networking and professional development opportunity. Eight first-year students from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology traveled to Austin, Texas, March 2-7 to visit the offices of leading technology companies and network with Penn State alumni.
College is a time for exploration and self-reflection. At a school like Penn State that offers exposure to countless industries and opportunities, it’s not unusual for a student to question their choice of major, even as an upperclassman. Paulette Vega is one such student.
Alumnus and veteran applies degree to help homeless vets
Matt McMahon, a 2004 Penn State alumnus with degrees in landscape architecture and biology, has built a strong career on a deep-rooted passion for post-industrial sites. This is the first installment of a two-part series on Stuckeman alumni that are now at the New York office of Snøhetta, an international architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and brand design office.
Honors students in the Penn State DuBois Wildlife Technology program had an exclusive opportunity for hands-on learning recently with members of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s (PGC) biological staff. The PGC is currently researching reproductive trends among Pennsylvania’s elk herd in hopes of improving the overall health of the herd and increasing the population.
Brianna Elicker, of York, a senior majoring in food science in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has had a passion for food and agriculture from an early age.
In a study of how incoming first-year college students perceive computing and computer majors, and who influences those perceptions, most students had positive feelings about computing and computer-related majors and jobs. However, gender and socioeconomic status seemed to play a role in whether parents shaped those perceptions.
Several outstanding students in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering were honored in the E-Knowledge Commons on March 13.
Penn State Block and Bridle Club members are gearing up for one of their favorite events, the 102nd Little International Livestock Exposition — also known as Little I — a yearly event that gives students hands-on experience showing beef and dairy cattle, swine, horses and sheep from the University’s on-campus farms.
As a filmmaker and teacher, Pearl Gluck is on a constant search for authenticity. She looks for it in her actors, her students and even her own scripts. It’s not easy, but the assistant professor of film-video in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications says it’s vital for the filmmaking process.
President Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Mary Hannah Leavitt, a 1978 Penn State Dickinson alumna, received the 25th Annual Honorable Sylvia H. Rambo Award Ceremony hosted by Dickinson Law’s Women’s Law Caucus at Lewis Katz Hall on March 14. The Hon. Sylvia H. Rambo, class of 1962, and Alana Goycochea, class of 2020, president of the Women’s Law Caucus, presented the award.
The first stop in the 2019 City Lights Series is almost here. As part of the Philadelphia event on March 26, Penn State alumni Abubakarr Fofanah and May Ayad will detail their journeys as immigrants, both to the United States and to Penn State.
Twelve Penn State engineering graduates will be honored April 8 at the College of Engineering’s annual Outstanding Engineering Alumni Awards ceremony at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
