Jennie Dare, human resources consultant; Matt Kremke, manager of compensation and classification; and Lisa Marranzini, human resources strategic partner, all in Penn State Human Resources, have been accepted into TIAA’s Emerging Leaders Network program.
Initiatives that include studying the sustainable management of forests using Penn State forestland as a living laboratory; developing professional development and instructional tools for educators to teach difficult historical and social subjects; and a summer program designed to prepare students for success in four-year STEM degrees, are among 12 projects that Penn State is funding as part of the fourth round of seed grants for strategic initiative pilot programs.
The Penn State Faculty Senate took a major step to affirm the University’s commitment to making Penn State research widely available to the public by endorsing a proposed policy supporting research submissions to open access journals.
The Penn State Board of Trustees will hold its next public meeting May 2-3 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center at University Park. The full board's meeting on May 2 will be streamed live online at http://wpsu.org/trustees/.
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, one of the largest, most respected, media-related charitable foundations in the United States, has provided a $100,000 grant to support construction of the Donald P. Bellisario Media Center at Penn State.
Penn State Harrisburg has received a gift of $250,000 from the John Crain Kunkel Foundation to expand the college’s career services office, which will be renamed the John Crain Kunkel Career Center. With these funds, the office will be able to offer a greater range of services and resources to students.
A new publication based on the proceedings of the E+D: Ecology Plus Design Symposium stresses the importance of a true partnership between designers and ecologists from the start of a landscape architecture project, through the design process, and to completion.
Geoff Halberstadt has been named senior director of development for the Penn State College of the Liberal Arts effective April 8.
New members have been appointed by Penn State President Eric Barron to the President’s Commissions for Equity, in a realignment of several existing advisory groups.
IBM will donate a system based on the technology in the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Summit and Sierra, to Penn State, giving researchers here a chance to work with the same computing architecture that handles research studies at the government’s national laboratories.
Distinguished Alumnus James Minarik and his wife Megan have created a challenge grant for the University community to support the Digital Fluency Project at Penn State Greater Allegheny.
In-kind gifts of software from global IT solutions provider Siemens are giving engineering and business students at Penn State Behrend access to three industry-leading design and manufacturing management platforms. Two additional gifts of software from RoboDK Inc. and Riskalyze Inc. likewise are benefiting students.
Paula Tinch will join Penn State Health on June 3 as senior vice president and chief financial officer.
With a $2 million estate gift, Liberal Arts alumnus Geoffrey Morton (1982) is creating a scholarship for students of military families in the College of the Liberal Arts as well as campus beautification endowments for Penn State's Mont Alto and University Park campuses.
As part of ongoing efforts to promote diversity and inclusion and plan for related strategic initiatives, Penn State established a working group in 2018 to implement the first University-wide climate survey focused on diversity for students and employees. Students, faculty and staff are now invited to share feedback about potential topics and goals for the future survey using an online form through April 26.
