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Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence

Schreyer Institute offering summer programs for instructors

April 18, 2025

Kirti Arora, recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Adult Student Award and Leslie Lang, director of Adult Learner Programs and Services.

2025 Outstanding Adult Student Award recipient announced

April 18, 2025

Side by side photos of young women

Grad students in architecture, art education receive Alumni Association Dissertation Award

April 18, 2025

A head and shoulders shot of a smiling Tony Talbert

Tony Talbert appointed executive director of Penn State Smeal Borrelli Institute

April 18, 2025

Tricia Hart stands at podium while giving presentation

Doctoral alumna advances to final round of regional Three Minute Thesis

April 18, 2025

Penn State Schuylkill accounting student builds connections, seizes opportunities

April 18, 2025

Two students sit on the ground in a lab working on folding a stiff paper origami mold.

Architecture students transform wool into temporary library installation

April 18, 2025

A group of Penn State Fayette students and faculty pose for a photo after an awards ceremony. Several students hold certificates for Pi Sigma Phi honor society.

Penn State Fayette holds 2025 Pi Sigma Phi induction ceremony

April 17, 2025

Online course on generative AI now open to all Penn State alumni

April 17, 2025

Three individuals pose with over-sized check for $3,000

Three research-based startups win funding in Invent Penn State Tech Tournament

April 17, 2025

Penn State Altoona Chancellor Ron Darbeau listens to an explanation of research conducted by students Layna Henry, Minjoo Kim and Lauren Thompson.

Penn State Altoona hosts Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Fair

April 17, 2025

Three Liberal Arts faculty members named distinguished professors

April 17, 2025

chess board on rocks near shore

Coastal management model plays the long game against the rising tides

April 17, 2025

OLLI Harrisburg

OLLI at Penn State brings new lifelong learning opportunities to Harrisburg

April 17, 2025

Woman speaking at podium with flowers in foreground

Penn State announces 2025 Student Service and Leadership Award winners

April 17, 2025

Group of Penn State students standing in front of U.S. Capitol building

Penn State students make meaningful connections with alumni in Washington, D.C.

April 17, 2025

Dean Lee Kump speaks at the NASEM Frontiers symposium

EMS experts promote research ties at National Academies US-African symposium

April 17, 2025

Artwork by Grace Brown and Raena Groner

Penn State Altoona to exhibit student artwork

April 17, 2025

Artworking by Maggie Parks depicting the northern lights over mountain tops and trees

Penn State Altoona to exhibit artwork by visual art studies senior Maggie Parks

April 17, 2025

Lucy Taylor stands outside the University House wearing a green button-down sweater.

Student Lucy Taylor selected as Liberal Arts college marshal for spring commencement

April 17, 2025

Penn State COSSA Day delegation outside of Capital Building in Washington, D.C.

Penn State social scientists support federal research funding at COSSA Day

April 17, 2025

Penn State Berks students and staff at a volunteer site

Berks students go to Puerto Rico for Alternative Spring Break experience

April 16, 2025

Students posing with award certificates

IST announces winners of David and Kathy Hozza Learning Assistant Award

April 16, 2025

Photograph of Old Main surrounded by summer foliage

Three selected as Administrative Fellows for 2025-26

April 16, 2025

Student winners of the award with faculty

Penn State Berks students receive Student Enterprise Award funding

April 16, 2025

Communication Students

Communication students recognized for accomplishments at Penn State Schuylkill

April 16, 2025

A student building an architectural model out of cardboard.

Stuckeman School, Penn State Outreach offering two options for design summer camp

April 16, 2025

Christina Lightner, middle, receiving the 2025 BHAC Impact Award.

Nursing professor receives Wellness Impact Award

April 16, 2025

Penn State Shenango announces Deryck Toles as spring commencement speaker

April 16, 2025

College of Medicine graduate honored with Alumni Achievement Award

April 16, 2025

Schreyer Scholar credits research experience with helping tailor career path

April 16, 2025

A head and shoulders photo of a smiling Brontë Hamilton

Brontë Hamilton named to Penn State Smeal Finance Advisory Board

April 15, 2025

Gamma Sigma Delta

Agricultural honor society Gamma Sigma Delta recognizes faculty and students

April 15, 2025

Madison Adamiak holding a certificate for first place in the PACJE Student Poster Competition

Altoona research lab sweeps state criminal justice research competition

April 15, 2025

A portrait of Alumni Achievement Award recipient Connor Sattely

Alumni Achievement Award recipient Connor Sattely visits Penn State Behrend

April 15, 2025

Q&A: What makes an ‘accidental dictator’ in the workplace?

April 15, 2025

Composite photo of Luc Schrauf, Elisabeth Groff, Zach Badinger and Megan von Abo

Four Penn State undergraduates earn Goldwater Scholarships

April 15, 2025

Sydney Smith and Austen Yim in a broadcast booth

Theatre alumni take sound design experience from the stage to the football field

April 15, 2025

Book by Penn State instructional design experts receives national award

April 15, 2025

Penn State Beaver marks 20 years of continuing education for CPAs, attorneys

April 15, 2025

Dean Troy Ott with Michelle Tran, Clayton Myers, Krista Pontius, Olivia Murphy-Sweet and Mike Levengood

College of Agricultural Sciences honors six with Outstanding Alumni awards

April 15, 2025

A person working in a clean room lab

Materials Research Institute announces 2025 seed grant recipients

April 15, 2025

group of new Tri-Alpha members pose for a photo holding their membership certificates

Newly formed, first-generation, Tri-Alpha Honor Society holds inaugural induction

April 14, 2025

Lion Shrine head on

General Education Student Survey findings released

April 14, 2025

Old Main early morning

Questionnaires open until May 4 for students to provide feedback on courses

April 14, 2025

Smiling man in blue sport coat and white dress shirt

Six standouts selected as marshals for Bellisario College commencement exercises

April 14, 2025

Ali Baghi stands in a hardhat and work jumpsuit in a workshop with a sign for the Penn State AddConLab behind him.

Stuckeman grad student focuses on the future of sustainable construction

April 14, 2025

Altoona nursing instructor nominated as Rising Star for nursing convention

April 14, 2025

A young woman with short hair at a marimba and a young woman with long hair in a studio with paint cans behind her

Graduate students in theatre, music win Professional Master’s Excellence Awards

April 14, 2025

Person in front of a vacuum chamber

Q&A: The new, shorter space race

April 14, 2025

Two students standing and looking at a computer screen in a lab

Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton team developing VR/AR apps

April 14, 2025

student presenting her internship work to a professor

Student engagement expo highlights research, internships, clubs, art and more

April 14, 2025

Fox Graduate School director of records named Staff Excellence Award winner

April 14, 2025

Engineering professor named recipient of Graduate Faculty Teaching Award

April 14, 2025

Bellisario College professor, department head to receive Faculty Outreach Award

April 14, 2025

Mathematics professor receives Teaching and Learning with Technology Impact Award

April 14, 2025

Meteorologist recognized with Undergraduate Program Leadership Award

April 14, 2025

Jacqueline O’Connor

Engineering professors receive Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching

April 14, 2025

Professor of education honored with Hendrick Award for service to adult learners

April 14, 2025

Erica Smithwick

Geography and ecology professor receives Kopp International Achievement Award

April 14, 2025

Liberal Arts academic program coordinator honored with 2025 Support Staff Award

April 14, 2025

George Atherton Bust

Six faculty members receive 2025 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching

April 14, 2025

Head of Nittany Lion Shrine

Penn State announces 2025 University-wide faculty and staff awards

April 14, 2025

Statistics faculty member honored with Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award

April 14, 2025

Journalism professor named recipient of Barash Award for Human Service

April 14, 2025

Real estate professor recognized with President’s Award for academic integration

April 14, 2025

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Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence

Schreyer Institute offering summer programs for instructors

April 18, 2025

Kirti Arora, recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Adult Student Award and Leslie Lang, director of Adult Learner Programs and Services.

2025 Outstanding Adult Student Award recipient announced

April 18, 2025

Side by side photos of young women

Grad students in architecture, art education receive Alumni Association Dissertation Award

April 18, 2025

A head and shoulders shot of a smiling Tony Talbert

Tony Talbert appointed executive director of Penn State Smeal Borrelli Institute

April 18, 2025

Tricia Hart stands at podium while giving presentation

Doctoral alumna advances to final round of regional Three Minute Thesis

April 18, 2025

Penn State Schuylkill accounting student builds connections, seizes opportunities

April 18, 2025

Two students sit on the ground in a lab working on folding a stiff paper origami mold.

Architecture students transform wool into temporary library installation

April 18, 2025

A group of Penn State Fayette students and faculty pose for a photo after an awards ceremony. Several students hold certificates for Pi Sigma Phi honor society.

Penn State Fayette holds 2025 Pi Sigma Phi induction ceremony

April 17, 2025

Online course on generative AI now open to all Penn State alumni

April 17, 2025

Three individuals pose with over-sized check for $3,000

Three research-based startups win funding in Invent Penn State Tech Tournament

April 17, 2025

Penn State Altoona Chancellor Ron Darbeau listens to an explanation of research conducted by students Layna Henry, Minjoo Kim and Lauren Thompson.

Penn State Altoona hosts Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Fair

April 17, 2025

Three Liberal Arts faculty members named distinguished professors

April 17, 2025

chess board on rocks near shore

Coastal management model plays the long game against the rising tides

April 17, 2025

OLLI Harrisburg

OLLI at Penn State brings new lifelong learning opportunities to Harrisburg

April 17, 2025

Woman speaking at podium with flowers in foreground

Penn State announces 2025 Student Service and Leadership Award winners

April 17, 2025

Group of Penn State students standing in front of U.S. Capitol building

Penn State students make meaningful connections with alumni in Washington, D.C.

April 17, 2025

Dean Lee Kump speaks at the NASEM Frontiers symposium

EMS experts promote research ties at National Academies US-African symposium

April 17, 2025

Artwork by Grace Brown and Raena Groner

Penn State Altoona to exhibit student artwork

April 17, 2025

Artworking by Maggie Parks depicting the northern lights over mountain tops and trees

Penn State Altoona to exhibit artwork by visual art studies senior Maggie Parks

April 17, 2025

Lucy Taylor stands outside the University House wearing a green button-down sweater.

Student Lucy Taylor selected as Liberal Arts college marshal for spring commencement

April 17, 2025

Penn State COSSA Day delegation outside of Capital Building in Washington, D.C.

Penn State social scientists support federal research funding at COSSA Day

April 17, 2025

Penn State Berks students and staff at a volunteer site

Berks students go to Puerto Rico for Alternative Spring Break experience

April 16, 2025

Students posing with award certificates

IST announces winners of David and Kathy Hozza Learning Assistant Award

April 16, 2025

Photograph of Old Main surrounded by summer foliage

Three selected as Administrative Fellows for 2025-26

April 16, 2025

Student winners of the award with faculty

Penn State Berks students receive Student Enterprise Award funding

April 16, 2025

Communication Students

Communication students recognized for accomplishments at Penn State Schuylkill

April 16, 2025

A student building an architectural model out of cardboard.

Stuckeman School, Penn State Outreach offering two options for design summer camp

April 16, 2025

Christina Lightner, middle, receiving the 2025 BHAC Impact Award.

Nursing professor receives Wellness Impact Award

April 16, 2025

Penn State Shenango announces Deryck Toles as spring commencement speaker

April 16, 2025

College of Medicine graduate honored with Alumni Achievement Award

April 16, 2025

Schreyer Scholar credits research experience with helping tailor career path

April 16, 2025

A head and shoulders photo of a smiling Brontë Hamilton

Brontë Hamilton named to Penn State Smeal Finance Advisory Board

April 15, 2025

Gamma Sigma Delta

Agricultural honor society Gamma Sigma Delta recognizes faculty and students

April 15, 2025

Madison Adamiak holding a certificate for first place in the PACJE Student Poster Competition

Altoona research lab sweeps state criminal justice research competition

April 15, 2025

A portrait of Alumni Achievement Award recipient Connor Sattely

Alumni Achievement Award recipient Connor Sattely visits Penn State Behrend

April 15, 2025

Q&A: What makes an ‘accidental dictator’ in the workplace?

April 15, 2025

Composite photo of Luc Schrauf, Elisabeth Groff, Zach Badinger and Megan von Abo

Four Penn State undergraduates earn Goldwater Scholarships

April 15, 2025

Sydney Smith and Austen Yim in a broadcast booth

Theatre alumni take sound design experience from the stage to the football field

April 15, 2025

Book by Penn State instructional design experts receives national award

April 15, 2025

Penn State Beaver marks 20 years of continuing education for CPAs, attorneys

April 15, 2025

Dean Troy Ott with Michelle Tran, Clayton Myers, Krista Pontius, Olivia Murphy-Sweet and Mike Levengood

College of Agricultural Sciences honors six with Outstanding Alumni awards

April 15, 2025

A person working in a clean room lab

Materials Research Institute announces 2025 seed grant recipients

April 15, 2025

group of new Tri-Alpha members pose for a photo holding their membership certificates

Newly formed, first-generation, Tri-Alpha Honor Society holds inaugural induction

April 14, 2025

Lion Shrine head on

General Education Student Survey findings released

April 14, 2025

Old Main early morning

Questionnaires open until May 4 for students to provide feedback on courses

April 14, 2025

Smiling man in blue sport coat and white dress shirt

Six standouts selected as marshals for Bellisario College commencement exercises

April 14, 2025

Ali Baghi stands in a hardhat and work jumpsuit in a workshop with a sign for the Penn State AddConLab behind him.

Stuckeman grad student focuses on the future of sustainable construction

April 14, 2025

Altoona nursing instructor nominated as Rising Star for nursing convention

April 14, 2025

A young woman with short hair at a marimba and a young woman with long hair in a studio with paint cans behind her

Graduate students in theatre, music win Professional Master’s Excellence Awards

April 14, 2025

Person in front of a vacuum chamber

Q&A: The new, shorter space race

April 14, 2025

Two students standing and looking at a computer screen in a lab

Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton team developing VR/AR apps

April 14, 2025

student presenting her internship work to a professor

Student engagement expo highlights research, internships, clubs, art and more

April 14, 2025

Fox Graduate School director of records named Staff Excellence Award winner

April 14, 2025

Engineering professor named recipient of Graduate Faculty Teaching Award

April 14, 2025

Bellisario College professor, department head to receive Faculty Outreach Award

April 14, 2025

Mathematics professor receives Teaching and Learning with Technology Impact Award

April 14, 2025

Meteorologist recognized with Undergraduate Program Leadership Award

April 14, 2025

Jacqueline O’Connor

Engineering professors receive Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching

April 14, 2025

Professor of education honored with Hendrick Award for service to adult learners

April 14, 2025

Erica Smithwick

Geography and ecology professor receives Kopp International Achievement Award

April 14, 2025

Liberal Arts academic program coordinator honored with 2025 Support Staff Award

April 14, 2025

George Atherton Bust

Six faculty members receive 2025 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching

April 14, 2025

Head of Nittany Lion Shrine

Penn State announces 2025 University-wide faculty and staff awards

April 14, 2025

Statistics faculty member honored with Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award

April 14, 2025

Journalism professor named recipient of Barash Award for Human Service

April 14, 2025

Real estate professor recognized with President’s Award for academic integration

April 14, 2025

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