The Lubrizol Corporation, which owns and operates chemical engineering facilities in 17 countries, has pledged $100,000 over the next five years in support of the College of Engineering’s Engineering Equity Initiative.
Penn State Harrisburg has received a gift of $2.5 million from the Douglas W. Pollock Foundation to establish the Douglas W. Pollock Center for Addiction Outreach and Research on its campus. The center will address two areas of the substance abuse problem within the central Pennsylvania region, while serving as a catalyst to enhance communications and align numerous agencies and organizations in efforts to combat substance abuse.
Ben Lane served as dean of students and director of admissions at Penn State Behrend. New scholarships created by his family will support students who are experiencing hardship.
Several members of the College of Health and Human Development Philanthropy Council have established new scholarship endowments as part of Penn State’s Open Doors Scholarship Program, a component of “A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence,” the University’s current fundraising campaign.
Two gifts from the John Nesbit Rees and Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Foundation will provide scholarships for Penn State Behrend students and support for "Music at Noon: The Logan Series," one of the college’s premier cultural enrichment programs.
Kent Whiting, a 2007 Penn State Harrisburg graduate, has committed a gift of $150,000 to support new track and field facilities at the college. The Whiting Family Throwing Complex will help Penn State Harrisburg take its track and field program to a new level of excellence by providing for a facility on campus. The track and field teams currently train at off-campus locations.
Rising sophomore died in 2016 while a student at Penn State Lehigh Valley
Amy Sharer is the new director of stewardship and donor relations for Penn State Outreach and Online Education. She joins Penn State OOE Development and Alumni Relations from the College of Engineering, where she was the stewardship coordinator.
Keiko Miwa Ross, of State College, Pennsylvania, has made a gift of $2 million to support WPSU television and Penn State University Libraries.
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.
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.
The public is invited to join the family and friends of Barbara Raeder Palmer at a celebration of her life at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 12, at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the Penn State University Park campus. Palmer, whose lifetime of philanthropy is evident across Penn State and the Centre region, died on Jan. 20, 2019, at the age of 93.
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.
