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.
Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications student and Schreyer Honors Scholar Sebastien Kraft continues to receive recognition for his documentary about the plight of refugees in Paris.
Peggy A. Johnson, Penn State Schreyer Honors College dean and professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Environmental and Water Resources Institute.
Entering its 34th year, the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration student planning committee has been hard at work gearing up for a week full of events. Awaly Diallo, a junior and Paterno Fellow majoring in sociology and African American studies, serves as the executive director of the committee and hopes to inspire social justice across Penn State's University Park campus.
The Center for Global Studies at Penn State will host Srdja Popovic, activist, global thinker, and founder and executive director of the Center for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies, on Feb. 26 at University Park. Popovic will deliver a lecture titled “Laughtivism: The Power of Humor in Nonviolent Struggle” at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Katz Auditorium.
The Schreyer Honors College has accepted Rachel Brennan, Xiang Gao, Matthew Kaplan and Jon Nese into its Distinguished Honors Faculty Program for the 2019-21 academic term.
Associate professor of biology and biochemistry and molecular biology Claire Thomas helps students develop an ability to think critically in research situations and is also working to bring people together outside of academia.
