Nine accomplished young alumni recently were honored with the prestigious Alumni Achievement Award during a ceremony hosted by the Penn State Alumni Association on March 20 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. The event brought together the nine honorees, their families, University leadership, and Penn State faculty and staff to celebrate some of the University’s brightest and boldest rising alumni.
Penn State Hazleton will offer lifeguard certification and recertification clinics through the American Red Cross in April, with testing on March 30. The lifeguard certification and recertification clinics will be held in the swimming pool in the Physical Education Building at Penn State Hazleton from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 16, and Friday, April 17, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.
Mike Boas, a member of the Penn State Brandywine Advisory Board and founder and principal advisor of BOAS Strategic Advisors LLC, spoke with Penn State students from Brandywine, Beaver and Hazleton about broadening their perspectives on career possibilities and transferable skills on March 5.
Mo Paknejad, a member of the Penn State Brandywine Advisory Board and director of engineering at CTDI, spoke with Penn State students from Brandywine, Beaver and Hazleton about leadership, innovation and the human side of engineering on Feb. 26.
Penn State student organizations and units at campuses across the commonwealth are offering events during National Women’s History Month, held during the month of March each year.
Winter weather conditions have caused Penn State to delay the start of classes, activities and offices opening until 10 a.m. at its Hazleton campus on Tuesday, March 3.
Ten Penn Staters will be honored with the 2026 Alumni Achievement Awards. Recipients will return to the University Park campus to share their expertise with students and be honored at an award ceremony on March 20.
As the 2025-26 Penn State Laureate, filmmaker and associate professor Pearl Gluck is traveling across the commonwealth to share her films and examine how storytelling lives within communities — not only in places, but through the people who care for them: archivists, artists, educators, librarians, museum guides and local historians who serve as keepers of cultural memory.
