Penn State Brandywine Chancellor Kristin R. Woolever highlighted the campus’ focus on student engagement and community impact, as well as its aim of providing an accessible and affordable education, during the University’s Board of Trustees meeting held today (July 18) at Brandywine.
The appointment of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson of Wilkes‐Barre, Pennsylvania, as architect for the Liberal Arts Research and Teaching Building to be constructed on the University Park campus was approved today (July 18) by the Penn State Board of Trustees.
The Penn State Board of Trustees approved the selection of Kimmel, Bogrette Architecture + Site of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, to design a renovation of the Multipurpose Building at Penn State DuBois.
The project to launch Penn State’s new System for Integrated Management, Budgeting and Accounting, or SIMBA, is tracking on time and on budget in anticipation of a July 2020 launch, according to SIMBA project sponsors Mary Lou Ortiz, University budget officer, and Joseph Doncsecz, associate vice president for finance and corporate controller. Both presented an update today (July 18) to the Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning at Penn State Brandywine.
Campus Academic Officers (CAO) from all 19 Penn State campuses convened at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, for the annual summer meeting on June 19, followed by a pre-conference session on June 20 and the fourth-annual Student Success Institute, open to regional higher-education professionals on June 21.
For the second year in a row, Penn State supporters have broken the University’s record for fundraising results, committing $372,555,732 to its current campaign, “A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence” — an increase of 3.1% over last year.
The SIMBA project team will offer a SIMBA Session webinar from 9 to 11 a.m. on Friday, July 19, via Zoom. SIMBA Sessions are an ongoing series of live webinars hosted by Debbie Meder, functional lead for the SIMBA project, to provide updates and information about SIMBA and answer project-related questions.
A $425,000 donation will allow Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center and its partner, Penn State Berks, to establish a nursing simulation lab on St. Joseph’s downtown Reading campus.
Penn State students majoring in architectural engineering or physics may soon benefit from an estate gift totaling more than $890,000. The gift from M. Dean and Jean L. Underwood will establish two scholarships, one in physics and one in architectural engineering.
On July 1, the Penn State Alumni Association welcomed Randy Houston as the 81st president in the history of the organization. Kelley Lynch started as vice president the same day, and both are longtime volunteer leaders for the Alumni Association and Penn State.
The Penn State Board of Trustees will hold its next public meeting July 18 at Penn State Brandywine. The full board meeting will be streamed live online at http://wpsu.org/trustees/.
Applications are now open for all Penn State campuses, colleges and programs interested in hosting a fundraising campaign during Penn State’s #GivingTuesday.
A. Ravi Ravindran, professor emeritus and a Provost’s Emeritus Faculty Teaching Scholar for the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, has worked to establish a $25,000 endowment to fund conference travel expenses for the department’s graduate students.
Joseph J. Doncsecz, associate vice president for finance and corporate controller for Penn State, has been named the College of Medicine’s interim associate vice president for finance and business, effective Aug. 1. Susan Wiedemer, associate controller and assistant treasurer at Penn State, will take over for Doncsecz on an interim basis.
Penn State Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Michael Kubit has announced that Greg Madden will serve as associate chief information officer for research for Penn State Information Technology, effective immediately.
