Tim Carr, an alumnus and longtime supporter of Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering, has committed $150,000 from his estate for an endowment to advance facility and equipment development and maintenance.
Brittany Hawkins, a 2008 graduate of the Department of Biobehavioral Health, is one of this year's recipient of the Penn State Alumni Association's Alumni Achievement Award. Hawkins is co-founder and CEO of Pathways Community Living, an agency in Pittsburgh that provides support for adults with intellectual disabilities.
Elizabeth M. King, a 1979 Penn State graduate with a degree in political science, has endowed the Elizabeth M. King Early Career Professorship in the School of Hospitality Management.
Mary Ellen and Tom Litzinger have established the $1.2 million Mary Ellen and Thomas A. Litzinger Endowment at Shaver’s Creek through a bequest to ensure educational opportunities and a sustainable future for Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center at Penn State.
Penn State alumnus Ken Schoener recently created a new Open Doors Scholarship with a gift of $30,000, which the University will match 2:1 through the Open Doors Scholarship Program. He also made an estate commitment to give another $125,000 to the University for the Dorothy L. Schoener Memorial Scholarship he established in 2000.
A Penn State alumnus and longtime University benefactor recently made a $30,000 gift, establishing the Andrew M. Moore Open Doors Scholarship.
Penn State graduate Suzie Martin and her husband, Allen Martin, of Vienna, Virginia, have made the first gift commitment for an endowed professorship in the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management in the College of Health and Human Development. The endowment will support a distinguished professor whose teaching and research directly engage with the national park system.
Robert Pangborn, Penn State's vice president and dean for Undergraduate Education, and his wife, Ann, have established an endowment aimed at helping Penn State students overcome financial roadblocks in order to graduate on time.
Penn State Berks Chancellor R. Keith Hillkirk and his wife, Suzanne, have recently created a new endowment, the Hillkirk Family Program Endowment for Ethics and Sustainability. The name reflects the passion that the Hillkirks have for these two priorities, which are emphasized in the college’s strategic plan.
Friends and colleagues of Sue Haug surprised her with the establishment of an endowment in her honor at a reception on May 4. Haug, director of Penn State's School of Music since 2005, has stepped down from that post but will remain on the faculty.
Robert Ricketts, senior lecturer in Penn State's Department of Kinesiology, has created the Robert D. Ricketts Student Leadership Award in the College of Health and Human Development, for undergraduate students in the department. The award recognizes exceptional student leadership, community engagement and service. Ricketts will retire in June after more than 40 years in the department.
John and Barbara Holder, 1965 alumni of Penn State’s College of Education, have made a $1.2 million estate commitment to be shared equally between the University Libraries and the College of Education. Half of the funds will endow an educational resources collection, and the other half will support an undergraduate scholarship for education majors.
To continue the success of the Department of Architectural Engineering and its students, Barton Malow has recently renewed its commitment to the Barton Malow Excellence Fund. The fund provides financial support to undergraduate architectural engineering students.
In the 1950s, graduate student Steward Flaschen met two Penn State faculty members who would have a profound impact on his renowned career: Rustum Roy, former Evan Pugh Professor of Solid State Science, and Elburt Osborn, former vice president for research. To honor their impact, Flaschen pledged more than $1 million of his estate to endow a professorship at Penn State. Flaschen’s family named the endowed professorship the Steward S. Flaschen Professorship. The professorship will be awarded to a faculty member in the in College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Two new endowments initially totaling $80,000 will benefit educational programs in Berks County focusing on 4-H youth development and consumer horticulture, Penn State Extension has announced.
