Caroline Hunter, a 1997 international politics alumna, works to safeguard citizens’ confidence in democracy and the election process as a member of the Federal Election Commission, the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing federal campaign finance law.
Jennifer Tennessen, a 2015 graduate of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences' ecology graduate program, applies the lessons of her interdisciplinary research at Penn State to her professional work with killer whales in the Pacific Northwest.
On March 15, fourth-year Penn State College of Medicine students learned where they’ll be heading for their residencies during Match Day — an annual tradition for medical students across the country.
Over the last decade, College of Information Sciences and Technology students have been analyzing emerging global security issues — such as the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370 and the examination of the information campaign that targeted the 2016 U.S. presidential election — without ever leaving campus.
Twenty students from Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus traveled to Washington, D.C., to complete a service project for the Capital Area Food Bank during the annual alternative spring break trip.
For its second alternative spring break volunteer service trip, Penn State Scranton students and staff traveled to a hurricane damaged area to help families whose homes and lives were devastated by Hurricane Florence last September.
A group of 19 Penn State DuBois students have returned from a spring break trip with new experiences and a fresh perspective on a number of social issues. Rather than spend the break on vacation, these students chose to participate in Alternative Spring Break, and travel to Washington, D.C., where they spent their break helping people who are homeless or living in impoverished conditions.
Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi earned the nationally competitive Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism, presented by the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State.
In May of 2018, environmental engineer Bruce Logan received funding from the provost’s office to launch “Energy 2100,” a multi-year initiative to harness Penn State’s vast and wide-ranging activity in the area of renewable energy research. The goal, Logan says, is to maximize the University’s contributions toward creation of a carbon-neutral global energy economy by the turn of the next century. He recently sat down to answer a few questions about this effort.
Students in the Penn State Law Civil Rights Appellate Clinic got real insight into law practice by filing a petition for certiorari Feb. 1 in the U.S. Supreme Court in the whistleblower case Cody v. Mantech. This filing came on the heels of a brief the clinic filed four days earlier in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Doe v. Law School Admission Council, which asserts that the council violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide reasonable accommodations on the Law School Admission Test.
The 2019 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, presented annually to an American poet or anthologist for the most outstanding new book of poetry for children, is Andrea Davis Pinkney for “Martin Rising: Requiem for a King.” The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, the Penn State University Libraries and poet-anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins share joint administration of the juried award, the first of its kind in the United States.
Dr. Peter Seidenberg, Penn State Health family and sports medicine physician and team physician for Penn State’s football and softball teams, will serve as chief medical officer for the 2019 Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi from March 14 to 21.
This year, a group of Penn State Berks students will visit Jamaica over spring break, but not for fun in the sun. Rather, they will go off the beaten path with the Penn State Berks Alternative Spring Break program.
Penn State remains committed 164 years after its founding to providing an agricultural education — no matter where its students live.
Penn State's Institutes of Energy and the Environment, in collaboration with the Center for Security Research and Education, will host a meeting on March 21 to discuss PFAS, synthetic chemicals that have been used in numerous industrial and consumer products and now are thought to be connected to health problems.
