Nine recent Penn State graduates have been selected as 2019-20 Young Alumni Ambassadors. These outstanding young alumni will share a yearlong experience aimed at developing their skills to become Penn State’s future volunteer leaders.
Lynette Yarger, associate professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State, has been appointed the Schreyer Honors College’s inaugural assistant dean for equity and inclusion, effective Aug. 1.
Electrical engineering student Lindsey Goodnight has always known she wanted to contribute to the medical field. Now, with the help of a 2019 Erickson Discovery Grant, she is on her way to conducting research that will do just that.
Schreyer Honors College Associate Dean for Student Affairs Michele Kirsch will retire June 30 after dedicating more than 20 years to Penn State.
Tessa Sontheimer and Geoff Merz, graduates of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, have been named recipients of Fulbright Study Awards.
When Philip Graybill received his degree in music education in 2005, he never could have predicted that his career path would lead him to a doctorate in engineering. But 14 years later, as a doctoral candidate in Penn State’s electrical engineering department, he has found a new application for his education background, as his passion for and experience in teaching have led him to receive the 2019 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award.
Students Nicholas Kremp, Stephanie Earle and Kaléi Kowalchik presented research posters at the 2019 Northeast Regional Honors Council Conference in Baltimore.
For just the second time in Penn State history, all four University candidates to the Goldwater Scholarship program were named as awardees.
Laura Rosenberger, director of the bipartisan Alliance for Securing Democracy, joins the Democracy Works podcast this week to discuss what the Mueller report revealed about Russian interference in the 2016 election — and what can be done to address it.
The Syrian refugee crisis was just beginning in 2012 when, on a whim, Lydia Williams she picked up a book called “The Syrian Rebellion” by Fouad Ajami. It changed her life. Now a senior political science major at Penn State Harrisburg, Williams traveled to Turkey this year to study the plight of the refugees through the Turkish Heritage Organization Summer Research Program.
The Administrative Fellows Program offers Penn State faculty and staff the opportunity to work with senior University officers to gain knowledge and experiences pertaining to the challenges of leadership in the academic community. For 2019-20, the Administrative Fellows are Gary Chinn, Lisa Kerchinski and Debra Thurley.
Penn State University Libraries awards recognized three outstanding undergraduate thesis authors as well as one graduate student and nine undergraduate student researchers, all exhibiting exemplary scholarly research methods and communication at University Park campus presentations this spring.
How to meet the seat needs of airline passengers isn’t something that has been quantified, so a team of researchers at Penn State set out to measure seat accommodation.
Penn State Abington valedictorian Rachel Katz, Chancellor Damian Fernandez, and keynote speaker Linda Richardson of Richardson addressed more than 300 graduates and their families on Saturday.
The Penn State Smeal College of Business has named Matthew Cherry, who is graduating with a 4.0 GPA in finance, as the student marshal for spring 2019. He will lead Smeal’s commencement procession during the Baccalaureate and Associate Degree Ceremony on Sunday at the Bryce Jordan Center.
