Each year, Penn State honors several students for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. The 2019 student award recipients exemplify best practices and achievements among Penn State students, reflecting the University's mission of teaching, research and service.
Noorein Ahmed, a senior and Schreyer Honors Scholar in health policy and administration in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State, has been awarded the 2019 Ardeth and Norman Frisbey International Student Award for undergraduates.
Jack Iffert, Schreyer Scholar and senior in civil engineering in the College of Engineering at Penn State, has been named recipient of the 2019 Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award.
The Paterno Fellows Program in the College of the Liberal Arts will hold its second Contemporary Issues Forum at 7 p.m. on March 28 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. This year’s theme will be "Understanding THON: For Which Kids? Starting a Conversation."
Ethan Adams, a Penn State Berks junior with a double major in information sciences and technology, and security and risk analysis, is the first recipient of the Simplr Artificial Intelligence Technology Scholarship.
Penn State University Libraries invites submissions for the eighth annual competition for the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award. The competition aims to find the best research by a Penn State undergraduate in consultation with his or her adviser. The winner will receive $1,250, and awards of $750 and $500 will be presented to the second- and third-place recipients, respectively.
This weekend, thousands of volunteers will work around the clock to make sure THON runs smoothly. Those volunteers are led by an Executive Board made up of 17 Penn State students. Five of those students are in the College of the Liberal Arts.
Ryan and Meredith Newman's $125,000 gift to Penn State will help aspiring entrepreneurs through their creation of an endowment in support of the Summer Founders Program.
For the fifth year, Penn State first-year honors students are inviting the community to join them for Deliberation Nation, a series of deliberative discussions about local, national and global issues of significance and urgency. More than 50 deliberation events will be held on the University Park campus and in State College from Feb. 18-28.
Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts inducted 142 students as Paterno Fellows and Schreyer Scholars on Feb. 6 as part of an innovative landmark program offered jointly by the college and the Schreyer Honors College. In addition, the winners of the sixth annual Collegiate Laws of Life Essay Contest were recognized at the ceremony.
A competition that encourages Penn State students to find solutions to the challenges facing women's professional sports in the United States has been initiated by the interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Sports and Society with an entry deadline of April 1.
The College of Engineering partnered with The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security to host a three-day workshop, a joint initiative to understand the evolving interactions between technology and our economic, political and social institutions, in Washington, D.C. A goal for participants was to learn how leaders use strategic foresight to better understand and anticipate changes that human-technology systems create and how to design strategies and develop options to better navigate those changes.
The third annual "(All In) Voices" human storytelling showcase may have a new title, but its commitment to diversity and inclusion through the unique storytelling of guest “voices” will be as powerful as ever. Previously called the Human Library, the event will be held on Feb. 13 and welcomes the participation of Penn State students, faculty, staff and local community members.
Penn State Willaman Professor of Biology Peter Hudson shared his thoughts on battling global disease and educating future scientists during the Annual Mark Luchinsky Memorial Lecture on Jan. 28 in Palmer Lipcon Auditorium.
Schreyer Honors Scholar Azniv Nalbandian likes to push herself with a variety of challenges, which included three international matches as part of the United States Women's 15s rugby team this past fall.
