At Aquinas College, where she was an All-American runner, Rachael Rose Steil once lived on a diet of 30 bananas a day. She will discuss how athletes struggle with food issues during a March 13 program at Penn State Behrend.
Dawne Hickton, chair of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland, will discuss her career path when the Finance Speaker Series returns to Penn State Behrend on April 15. The program is free and open to the public, and free parking will be available in the deck located behind Burke Center, off Technology Drive.
What happens when a hypothesis has to be formed and tested on the fly? That’s the question that awaited participants as they arrived at the Mystery Architecture activity at the 2019 regional Science Olympiad, held this month at Penn State Behrend. More than 400 area middle- and high-school students from 35 schools participated in the event.
Award-winning editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers, who worked a quarter century at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette before being fired last year after the paper’s editorial director refused to publish several of his cartoons, will discuss journalism ethics at 7 p.m. March 26 in Kern Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus.
College readiness programming at Penn State Abington includes SAT Prep along with camps geared toward older teens.
The Penn State Shenango Earth Fest, which has become a popular annual event in the Shenango Valley for adults and children of all ages, will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 6 at the campus' Great Hall and Atrium in downtown Sharon. The festival, which is free and open to the community, will include live music and entertainment, an educational presentation on sustainability by author/journalist Seamus McGraw, children’s activities, a local artists’ market, Penn State Berkey Creamery ice cream, and information from sustainability-minded local organizations and businesses.
Public reception will unveil gallery featuring local college students’ work.
Meet Pennsylvania lawmakers, hear from a national civil rights lawyer, and network with business leaders at these upcoming March events.
Paul Perreault, chief executive officer and managing director of CSL Limited, the fifth largest biotech company in the world, presented “Innovation in Biotechnology: The Promise, The Potential, The Pitfalls” at the Penn State Forum on March 12 at University Park.
Scott Cullen comes to the Lehigh Valley campus with an immense amount of experience within the soccer community.
The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) brings its 2018/19 Hand of Time Tour to Penn State with a performance of William Shakespeare’s "The Winter’s Tale" at 7 p.m. on March 25 at Eisenhower Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public.
Spring has sprung at Penn State’s Pasto Agricultural Museum, and to celebrate, the museum is hosting two free programs filled with fun, interactive learning for families.
Registration is now open for the Penn State Center for Arts and Crafts’ 2019 summer art camps on the University Park campus. Camps are offered for children in grades one through nine and vary for each session and age group.
Penn State Berkey Creamery is bringing back Flavor Madness, the online tournament in which ice cream fans can vote weekly for their favorite flavors. The contest was held last in 2017, when Death by Chocolate took home the trophy.
Penn State University Libraries will conduct its first large-scale survey of graduate and professional students on a range of topics, including library resource use, perceptions of service and current and future needs, with responses used to inform planning and future enhancements. A sample of students received an email invitation to participate in the survey on Monday, March 18.
