This week, we recognize three people and members of staff who go above and beyond what's asked of them in their work at the University. We're sending a "We Are!" to Penn Staters with Penn State Hazleton and Penn State Mont Alto, and a student at University Park who started at Penn State Behrend.
This spring Penn State expects to award 13,894 diplomas to students University-wide who are completing 226 associate, 11,435 baccalaureate, 1,590 master’s, 262 law, 244 doctoral and 137 medical degrees. Following is a compilation of commencement ceremonies and speaker information for Penn State’s 24 locations.
Penn State students from seven Commonwealth Campuses presented their research to a panel of faculty-judges during the seventh annual Penn State Eastern Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium. Held on April 20 at Penn State Brandywine, the event featured undergraduate student-faculty research projects spanning numerous academic disciplines.
Wieslaw Grebski, associate professor of engineering, and Daniel Vice, senior instructor in earth and mineral sciences, are retiring from Penn State Hazleton and were honored at a ceremony at the campus.
Penn State Hazleton's Academic Achievement Awards ceremony recognized students for high scholastic achievement and faculty and staff for excellence in in teaching, advising, research, technology integration and professionalism.
More than 100 students graduated with associate and baccalaureate degrees during the annual commencement cermony held May 5 in the Dr. Thomas M. Caccese gymnasium.
Jonathan Kukta, director of Housing and Food Services at Penn State Hazleton, Schuylkill, Wilkes-Barre and Worthington Scranton, was honored during the annual Housing and Food Services Award Ceremony held by Penn State Auxiliary and Business Services.
Penn State is moving toward a University-wide health insurance requirement for the 2018-19 academic school year. In preparation for the new requirement, University Health Services (UHS) will begin collecting student health insurance information in May 2017.
Four projects have been selected to receive funding through the Penn State College of Engineering's new Multi-campus Seed Grant program. The program aims to foster research collaborations between engineering faculty at the University Park campus and at the Commonwealth campuses.
