Dr. Craig Hillemeier, dean of Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State’s senior vice president for health affairs and chief executive officer of Penn State Health, has announced his upcoming retirement.
A Penn State electrical engineering alumnus has made an estate commitment of $1 million to create the “Pogoda Excellence Fund in the College of Engineering” to support the college’s Multi-Campus Research Experience for Undergraduates (MC REU).
The U.S. government and federal funding agencies have expressed concern regarding researchers' transparency in disclosing international affiliations. The Office of the Vice President for Research has compiled an online resource to help investigators protect themselves and their research projects.
The Penn State Board of Trustees will hold its next public meeting Feb. 21-22 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center at University Park.
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.
In accordance with requirements of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Penn State makes work-related exposure records and work-related medical records available to its employees and their designated representatives.
Penn State joined colleges and universities around the country in providing feedback through several national education associations on proposed changes to Title IX regulations announced by the Department of Education in November.
Penn State alumni David and JoEllen Sallack have made a gift that will honor the memories of David’s late father, John Sallack, and older sister, Fay Sallack, while supporting undergraduates with financial need from Pennsylvania’s rural communities.
Tony and Jeanne Riley, of Baltimore, Maryland, have made gifts that support programs of the Center for Private Forests. Established in 2011 under the leadership of its founding director, Professor Emeritus of Forest Resources Jim Finley, the CPF collaborates with experts within Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and across the country to study, educate and inspire forest landowners in the stewardship of their land.
Weight Watchers, through a subsidy, now offers reduced pricing on memberships to Penn State employees.
WJAC TV, the NBC affiliate station in Johnstown, Pa., aired a story on Feb. 11 based on an unauthroized June 29, 2018, report written by a group of seven alumni-elected trustees of Penn State’s Board of Trustees. Below is a response from Penn State President Eric J. Barron and Board Chair Mark H. Dambly related to the release of information.
In December 2018, Penn State transitioned management of the Daybridge Child Care Center, located at Innovation Park, from KinderCare to Bright Horizons Family Solutions. This transition marked the second Penn State child care center to do so within the last year. In August 2018, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine transitioned their on-site child care center to Bright Horizons with a change in name to First Discoveries at Bright Horizons.
Penn State Altoona has received an in-kind gift from PS Technology that will enhance the college’s Rail Transportation Engineering program curriculum.
Penn State alumnus Charles Schneider has gifted $1 million to the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering’s Service Enterprise Engineering Initiative (SEE 360) to endow the Charles and Enid Schneider Scholarship in Service Enterprise Engineering.
Greek life reform success, proposed changes to Senate bylaws, how the University communicates during crises, and academic advising were all focuses of the Penn State Faculty Senate's most recent meeting.
