Internationally acclaimed educator, lecturer, and author of this year’s Common Reading selection Saundra McGuire will visit Penn State Berks to discuss her book and share the tools and strategies.
Homecoming 2019 will be one of the most memorable weekends of the year in Happy Valley, and the Penn State Alumni Association is hosting a number of free events that are available for alumni and friends on Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 4-5. Additionally, Alumni Association members can purchase discounted tickets for the Homecoming football game against Purdue.
The Cavani String Quartet will visit Penn State Behrend Monday, Sept. 23, to open the 30th season of Music at Noon: The Logan Series. The performance begins at noon in McGarvey Commons, in the college’s Reed Union Building.
Penn State Behrend will host its Penn State Day admissions open house for prospective students on Saturday, Sept. 28. All participants will receive an application fee waiver — a $65 value.
A Basket Bingo Night is planned at Penn State DuBois to benefit THON, the Penn State Dance Marathon held each February to raise funds to help battle childhood cancer. Bingo Night is planned for 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, in the Hiller Student Union.
Join Penn State alumnae on Wednesday, Sept. 25, for a panel and reception. The women will share stories of what made them successful and challenges they've encountered along the way.
The Penn State College of the Liberal Arts will hold its fifth annual “Penn State Women: Leaders of Today and Tomorrow” panel and networking reception Sept. 25, followed by one-on-one meetings with the alumnae participants the next morning. Advance sign-ups are required for the one-on-one meetings. Students of all majors are invited to attend.
Penn State's Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the Penn State Postdoc Society are hosting the Twelfth Annual Postdoc Research Exhibition, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 18 at the HUB-Robeson Center, University Park. Postdocs and assistant research professors from departments across the campus will be presenting their research in a manner that is designed to be accessible to a broad audience.
Penn State’s Fall Career Days will return to campus this week. The three-day hiring event brings employers from all over the country to the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus.
Undergraduate students from across the country are returning to Penn State next week for the first international conference on the science of drawdown, the point at which greenhouse gases in the atmosphere begin to decline. The students, participants in this past summer’s Penn State Drawdown Scholars Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, will present results from their summer research projects from Sept. 16-18.
The Penn State Alumni Association’s Huddle with the Faculty series continues with presentations that will enlighten and inform attendees on home football Saturdays at the Nittany Lion Inn.
Beginning in mid-September, Penn State Berks will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and host a variety of events; each event is intended for a specific audience, including prospective and current students, the campus community, and the general public.
This fall, Penn State Berks welcomed 110 international students to the campus community. Of that number, 40 are new students. To help these students succeed, the college has implemented a variety of programs and events.
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, began the 2019-20 academic year with a day of programming for faculty and staff. The agenda concluded with the annual student convocation.
Actor and singer-songwriter Bryan Terrell Clark, best known for his starring role as George Washington in "Hamilton: An American Musical on Broadway," will visit Penn State Berks at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.
