Menah Pratt, vice president for strategic affairs and professor of education at Virginia Tech, has been named regional chancellor for Penn State's Hazleton, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre campuses, effective Aug. 1.
John Nauright, associate dean for research and innovation and special assistant for health initiatives in the College of Human Sciences and Education at Louisiana State University, has been named dean of the University College at Penn State, effective July 1.
Penn State Hazleton will welcome alumna Tiffany Veet, head of drug substance continuous improvement autonomous production unit (APU) support at Sanofi, as the keynote speaker for its spring commencement ceremony, scheduled for Friday, May 8, at 7 p.m.