Alumni, friends and colleagues have created the Dr. William Blair Leadership Fund to honor William Blair, outgoing director of the Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State.
UGI Utilities Inc. has made a long-term commitment to Penn State Scranton through its recent establishment of a $100,000 Open Doors Scholarship for campus students.
Penn State students majoring in architectural engineering or physics may soon benefit from an estate gift totaling more than $890,000. The gift from M. Dean and Jean L. Underwood will establish two scholarships, one in physics and one in architectural engineering.
Applications are now open for all Penn State campuses, colleges and programs interested in hosting a fundraising campaign during Penn State’s #GivingTuesday.
A. Ravi Ravindran, professor emeritus and a Provost’s Emeritus Faculty Teaching Scholar for the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, has worked to establish a $25,000 endowment to fund conference travel expenses for the department’s graduate students.
Penn State Scranton Alumni Society held its annual golf tournament.
Penn State Scranton Chancellor Marwan A. Wafa and his wife, Sahar Al Masri, have further solidified their commitment to the campus by establishing the Wafa Family Open Doors Scholarship for campus students.
Recognizing the importance of real estate in their lives, Jason Borrelli and his wife, Julie, a fellow Penn State graduate, recently made a $2 million commitment to Penn State to endow the Jason and Julie Borrelli Faculty Chair in Real Estate in the Smeal College of Business.
Don Lenze, director of development in the College of Arts and Architecture since 2013, has been promoted to senior director of development, effective July 1.
Nine recent Penn State graduates have been selected as 2019-20 Young Alumni Ambassadors. These outstanding young alumni will share a yearlong experience aimed at developing their skills to become Penn State’s future volunteer leaders.
Joan Turns’ relationship with Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center goes back 30 years as a patron, volunteer and employee. She and her husband, Steve, decided to turn that passion into a financial commitment to the center.
PSECU, Pennsylvania’s largest credit union, recently committed $100,000 to support the Sokolov-Miller Family Financial and Life Skills Center at Penn State. The funding is intended to help the center maintain and enhance its popular online self-study curriculum, which is designed to strengthen Penn State students’ financial capability.
The inspiration behind a person’s philanthropy can come from a variety of sources. For alumnus Dr. Roger Simon, it stems from two places: the Penn State Department of Entomology and his father, Sam Simon.
Alumnus Marty Aronoff recently committed to an even greater and more lasting impact on Penn State students with two gifts — one creating a fund to enable student travel and another supporting establishment of an audio studio in the Donald P. Bellisario Media Center.
Children’s Miracle Network raised $4,445,580.79 for Penn State Children’s Hospital in 2018-19. The total was announced during the 35th annual Children’s Miracle Network Telethon, which aired Monday, June 3 on WGAL-TV 8 from Penn State Children’s Hospital.
