The Ballantyne and Leonard Foundation has made commitments totaling $500,000 to support the Summer Founders Program, an Invent Penn State initiative, and students in the Penn State College of Engineering.
Twelve Penn State engineering graduates will be honored April 8 at the College of Engineering’s annual Outstanding Engineering Alumni Awards ceremony at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
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.
Thanks to the Penn State Millennium Scholars Program and support from donors like Steve and Kathi Mahle, a growing number of Penn State students are on their way toward earning advanced degrees in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
A $200,000 gift from Penn State alumnus Mark Jay Tygel will enable The Arboretum at Penn State to launch new educational programs on plant sciences and related topics.
Penn State industrial engineering alumnus William Korb and his wife, Wendy, who is also a Penn State graduate, have contributed $100,000 to fund and endow three Open Doors Scholarships in the College of Engineering.
Penn State Schuylkill recently announced an anonymous gift of $250,000 to help fund LionLaunch, part of Invent Penn State, a University-wide initiative established to spur economic growth in Pennsylvania.
Thomas W. Tewksbury, alumnus and longtime volunteer and donor to Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development, passed away on Feb. 18.
A Penn State electrical engineering alumnus has made an estate commitment of $1 million to create the “Pogoda Excellence Fund in the College of Engineering” to support the college’s Multi-Campus Research Experience for Undergraduates (MC REU).
Ryan and Meredith Newman's $125,000 gift to Penn State will help aspiring entrepreneurs through their creation of an endowment in support of the Summer Founders Program.
Penn State alumni David and JoEllen Sallack have made a gift that will honor the memories of David’s late father, John Sallack, and older sister, Fay Sallack, while supporting undergraduates with financial need from Pennsylvania’s rural communities.
Tony and Jeanne Riley, of Baltimore, Maryland, have made gifts that support programs of the Center for Private Forests. Established in 2011 under the leadership of its founding director, Professor Emeritus of Forest Resources Jim Finley, the CPF collaborates with experts within Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and across the country to study, educate and inspire forest landowners in the stewardship of their land.
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, will host Petra Mitchell, president and CEO of Catalyst Connection, at 12:15 p.m. on March 20 in the Student Center of the Williams building.
Penn State alumnus Charles Schneider has gifted $1 million to the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering’s Service Enterprise Engineering Initiative (SEE 360) to endow the Charles and Enid Schneider Scholarship in Service Enterprise Engineering.
Penn State alumni Donna, 1967 in psychology, and Bill Oliver, 1967 in marketing, took advantage of the Tracy and Ted McCourtney Endowed Professorship Matching Gift Program to create a professorship in the Department of History in the College of the Liberal Arts.
