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.
Applications are now being accepted for the Steve A. Garban Grant-In-Aid, for children of Penn State technical service or staff employees. This grant-in-aid, awarded to one new first-year student, is intended to assist with room and board charges for two years, provided the student continues full-time enrollment at Penn State or Pennsylvania College of Technology, incurs on-campus room and board charges, and demonstrates academic success.
Holocaust and genocide scholar, educator, author, and member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, Carol Rittner will be the guest speaker at a free, public luncheon and presentation to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, Jan. 29, in the Center for Multicultural Engagement, 103 Charles T. Butler Teaching and Learning Resource Center at Penn State Hazleton. Following the lunch, Rittner will speak to students in history and sociology classes and guests in 109 Evelyn Graham Academic Building. Her presentation is titled “This Time: Teaching the Holocaust Today.”
Events and activities commemorating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. will be held over the next few weeks at several Penn State campuses. The theme for 2026 is "Undaunted Hope."
Graduates of Penn State Hazleton’s practical nursing program were recognized during a ceremony on Tuesday, Dec. 16, in the Dr. Thomas M. Caccese Gymnasium of the Physical Education Building. The class received their nursing pins and certificates, marking their completion of the 18-month program.
As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 19 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
