Mike Rzucidlo of the campus' maintenance and operations department has been named the August Employee of the Month at Penn State Worthington Scranton by Chancellor Marwan Wafa.

Dale Holen, associate professor of biology at Penn State Worthington Scranton, will be a panelist at The Gathering, set for July 14-16 at Keystone College in La Plume, Pennsylvania. Holen will be one of five members on the panel on climate change, joining a public lands manager, a farmer, a corporate executive, and a fellow educator.

Penn State Worthington Scranton Director of Development Maria Russoniello is the 2017 recipient of the campus’ K. Bruce Sherbine Penn State Proud Award.

Agnès Kim, assistant professor of physics at Penn State Worthington Scranton, is the recipient of the 2017 Dr. Richard J. and Sally Matthews Award for Scholarly Activity. The award is given each year to a member of the campus faculty in recognition of his/her scholarly and research activities.

Penn State Worthington Scranton will hold its Spend A Summer Evening Open House at 6 p.m. on July 11 in the View Cafe of the campus' Study Learning Center. The Spend A Summer Evening program is for students, both traditional and non-traditional, that are starting their college searches.

Kiernan Riley, a senior honor’s nursing student at Penn State Worthington Scranton, was awarded a Penn State Student Engagement Network grant to study the effects of a teaching intervention about organ donation on high school students’ attitudes and intent to register as organ donors when applying for drivers’ licenses.