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Provost Endorsement Program highlights experiential learning and sustainability

September 06, 2025

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Contrasting works highlight Penn State Abington art gallery's fall exhibitions

September 06, 2025

Jerry Zolten

Penn State Altoona professor emeritus to be honored as musician of the year

September 06, 2025

Teaching and Learning with Technology staff and attendees explored AI opportunities during a previous Dreamery Speaker Series.

AI-Enhanced Pedagogy Provost Endorsement open for enrollment until Sept. 30

September 06, 2025

SIA global cast simulation

Simulation of a global catastrophe is part of learning in a Penn State class

September 05, 2025

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Registration open for Fall 2025 Assessment Workshop Series

September 05, 2025

Person standing inside ARL looking at the camera with a plant in the background.

Penn State researcher awarded $1.6 million for additive manufacturing project

September 05, 2025

Elaine Andrews headshot

Administrator and faculty member hopes to lift early art critic out of obscurity

September 05, 2025

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Starfish early indicators progress survey open from Sept. 8-17

September 05, 2025

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Women in Tech Mentoring program now accepting applications

September 05, 2025

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Hearst Foundation’s $200K grant expands News Lab, establishes fellowship program

September 04, 2025

Sandy Zeng performs a Chinese fan dance, her outstretched arm holding a flourishing fan.

Student-led 'Multicultural Mayhem' celebrates heritage, community and belonging

September 04, 2025

Three images connected by arrows: a person doing yoga, the same person walking two dogs on a boardwalk, the same person sitting on a couch looking at his phone.

Innovative methods of studying brain health, cognition topic of upcoming lecture

September 04, 2025

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Faculty development program on privacy applicant deadline extended to Sept. 11

September 04, 2025

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IST announces Research Talks series for fall 2025 semester

September 04, 2025

Bharat Sharma, data analytics alumnus, stands in a lounge at Penn State Great Valley

Creating tools that ‘do wonders’: Data analytics alum uses the power of tech

September 04, 2025

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Spark Program applications open for fellowships mentoring

September 04, 2025

Praveen Veerabhadrappa

Berks professor honored with International Cardiology Congress speaker award

September 04, 2025

Side by side photos of Neela Pife and Colin Byrne

Two students earn Outstanding Guided Study Group Leader Award

September 04, 2025

Robotics prototyping enabled a device to play a keyboard at the 2024 TLT Symposium.

Revised Faculty Tech Academy for 2025-26 available in Learning Resource Network

September 04, 2025

Chandima Sudantha Subasinghe smiling outside in front of greenery.

Energy and mineral engineering graduate student awarded SME fellowship grant

September 04, 2025

MBA student Jessie Whiteman sits at a desk with a vase of flowers next to her.

Great Valley MBA grad landed three job offers and redesigned her career path

September 03, 2025

The Alumni Fellow Award, a round, metal medallion

Twelve Penn Staters Honored with Alumni Fellow Award

September 03, 2025

Erin Murphy

Penn State Altoona English professor to present poetry reading and workshop

September 03, 2025

Students standing at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.

Penn State students immerse themselves in ancient Rome on summer study abroad

September 03, 2025

A head and shoulders photo of a smiling Siqi Zheng.

MIT professor to deliver Jaffe Lecture on Sept. 19 at Penn State Smeal

September 02, 2025

Illustration of map and GIS symbol

University Libraries to offer fall workshops on maps and GIS topics

September 02, 2025

Penn State baseball player Brayden Patton, wearing a gray uniform and cap, pitches the ball during a game on a sunny afternoon.

Greater Allegheny internships prepare students for careers

September 02, 2025

Luke Snyder sitting and waving in a giant CNN logo

Eagerness drives broadcast journalism/meteorology major to CNN internship

September 02, 2025

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Lehigh Valley Announces Summer 2025 Dean’s List

September 02, 2025

Old Main early morning

Penn State Global, Fox Graduate School announce graduate student travel grants

September 02, 2025

A group photograph of ARL leadership posing with the recipient of the Josiah Christophel internship and members of the Christophel family

Applied Research Laboratory announces new internship program

September 02, 2025

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IST receives $1.5 million grant to educate future AI+cybersecurity leaders

September 02, 2025

Two girls work on a wind turbine while seated on a wood floor.

$5M NSF grant to enhance elementary STEM education in Mid-Atlantic

September 02, 2025

Six headshots of the 2025 IIF awardees surround the One Health Microbiome Center's logo.

Interdisciplinary Innovation Fellowship awards six trainee-led projects

September 02, 2025

A man sitting at a lab desk with research equipment surrounding him.

Andrew Patterson named Huck associate director for shared and core facilities

September 01, 2025

Erin Murphy

Penn State Altoona professor publishes anthology of work poems on Labor Day

September 01, 2025

A composite of headshot of ten teachers

TLT recognizes new Penn State faculty for enhancing teaching with technology

August 29, 2025

A bee collects pollen from the center of a purple daisy-like flower, with a blurred background of similar flowers.

Geography lecture to spotlight pollinator conservation and technology

August 29, 2025

Andy Feinstein

University of Northern Colorado president named 2025-26 Conti professor

August 29, 2025

A nutritionist holds supplements while talking to a woman in a gym.

Department of Nutritional Sciences now offers new minor in sports nutrition 

August 29, 2025

Scans of a lychee seed and a mouse brain done in the Huck Institutes' High-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility

Huck launches new seed grant program to support research in MRI Core Facility

August 29, 2025

Shaver's Creek

From Shaver’s Creek to Ghana and beyond, a Penn Stater is building community

August 29, 2025

The Pennsylvania State University seal in back of the HUB

Students invited to apply for University Committee on the Assessment of Learning

August 29, 2025

Engineering student working on fuel tank design

‘Research Readiness’ workshop series begins for undergraduates

August 29, 2025

soccer ball, sneakers and high heels

Fashion or fandom? Abington student athlete’s internship guiding her career path

August 28, 2025

Blue gloved hands using a pipette to transfer liquid into small, labeled test tubes arranged in a white plastic holder. Another gloved hand is holding a small purple container.

New seed funding opportunities available for Commonwealth Campus faculty

August 28, 2025

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Tailoring teaching design to help more students succeed

August 28, 2025

Corporate Finance Boot Camp students visit Marriott International Headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland

Corporate Finance Boot Camp offers unique insights for Penn State Smeal students

August 28, 2025

Graduate students in the African Studies Program gather with faculty member Sinfree Makoni.

African Studies Program expands through dual-title doctorate, graduate minor

August 28, 2025

Jeff Stoyanoff

Penn State Altoona professor accepted to attend symposium

August 28, 2025

A photo of Jeff King with sunglasses and a hat, sitting on a boat.

Volunteer, philanthropist Jeff King: Remembering a Penn State legend

August 28, 2025

Side-by-side portraits of a a grad student and his adviser.

Nuclear engineering grad student awarded Department of Energy fellowship

August 27, 2025

Ben Lindgren stands in front of the Whole Foods Market logo at company headquarters in Austin, Texas.

Chapel Intern puts sustainable development into practice

August 27, 2025

Headshots of three new faculty members

Great Valley welcomes three new faculty in AI, management, engineering

August 27, 2025

Mushroom Mania

'Mushroom Mania' workshop connects Pennsylvania educators to global solutions

August 27, 2025

Berks Lion Shrine

Penn State Berks announces summer dean’s list

August 27, 2025

Penn State launches online master’s degree in computer science

August 27, 2025

Green trees line the shore of Beech Creek under a blue sky

Research sheds light on Beech Creek’s struggle with abandoned mine drainage

August 27, 2025

Immersive Environments Lab

Stuckeman School expands teaching, creativity with Immersive Environments Lab

August 26, 2025

A bell is pictured on a sunny day.

Schedule announced for 2025-26 Promotion and Tenure Workshop Series

August 26, 2025

A headshot of a professor and new associate department head of nuclear engineering at Penn State.

Elia Merzari named associate head of Penn State’s nuclear engineering department

August 26, 2025

Juan Diego Falls at el Yunque rainforest Puerto Rico

Penn State Altoona to offer alternative spring break 2026 information sessions

August 26, 2025

Lisa Gatzke-Kopp

Lisa Gatzke-Kopp named head of human development and family studies

August 26, 2025

Penn State faculty, staff and students now have access to an online portal of classrooms across the University.

Discovering the right room and tech now: Learning Spaces Manager portal launches

August 26, 2025

CommAgency students work on equipment

CommAgency seeks clients for fall 2025 communications work

August 26, 2025

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A group of faculty in a classroom during a training

Provost Endorsement Program highlights experiential learning and sustainability

September 06, 2025

Wooden blocks

Contrasting works highlight Penn State Abington art gallery's fall exhibitions

September 06, 2025

Jerry Zolten

Penn State Altoona professor emeritus to be honored as musician of the year

September 06, 2025

Teaching and Learning with Technology staff and attendees explored AI opportunities during a previous Dreamery Speaker Series.

AI-Enhanced Pedagogy Provost Endorsement open for enrollment until Sept. 30

September 06, 2025

SIA global cast simulation

Simulation of a global catastrophe is part of learning in a Penn State class

September 05, 2025

Old Main on a beautiful sunny day surrounded by green foliage and blue sky

Registration open for Fall 2025 Assessment Workshop Series

September 05, 2025

Person standing inside ARL looking at the camera with a plant in the background.

Penn State researcher awarded $1.6 million for additive manufacturing project

September 05, 2025

Elaine Andrews headshot

Administrator and faculty member hopes to lift early art critic out of obscurity

September 05, 2025

Adviser at computer talking to student

Starfish early indicators progress survey open from Sept. 8-17

September 05, 2025

Three women talk during a luncheon

Women in Tech Mentoring program now accepting applications

September 05, 2025

People hunched over laptop computers, seated in chairs.

Hearst Foundation’s $200K grant expands News Lab, establishes fellowship program

September 04, 2025

Sandy Zeng performs a Chinese fan dance, her outstretched arm holding a flourishing fan.

Student-led 'Multicultural Mayhem' celebrates heritage, community and belonging

September 04, 2025

Three images connected by arrows: a person doing yoga, the same person walking two dogs on a boardwalk, the same person sitting on a couch looking at his phone.

Innovative methods of studying brain health, cognition topic of upcoming lecture

September 04, 2025

student sitting away from group talking together

Faculty development program on privacy applicant deadline extended to Sept. 11

September 04, 2025

slide displays two researcher headshots and lecture titles

IST announces Research Talks series for fall 2025 semester

September 04, 2025

Bharat Sharma, data analytics alumnus, stands in a lounge at Penn State Great Valley

Creating tools that ‘do wonders’: Data analytics alum uses the power of tech

September 04, 2025

Photo of two women working on paperwork on table

Spark Program applications open for fellowships mentoring

September 04, 2025

Praveen Veerabhadrappa

Berks professor honored with International Cardiology Congress speaker award

September 04, 2025

Side by side photos of Neela Pife and Colin Byrne

Two students earn Outstanding Guided Study Group Leader Award

September 04, 2025

Robotics prototyping enabled a device to play a keyboard at the 2024 TLT Symposium.

Revised Faculty Tech Academy for 2025-26 available in Learning Resource Network

September 04, 2025

Chandima Sudantha Subasinghe smiling outside in front of greenery.

Energy and mineral engineering graduate student awarded SME fellowship grant

September 04, 2025

MBA student Jessie Whiteman sits at a desk with a vase of flowers next to her.

Great Valley MBA grad landed three job offers and redesigned her career path

September 03, 2025

The Alumni Fellow Award, a round, metal medallion

Twelve Penn Staters Honored with Alumni Fellow Award

September 03, 2025

Erin Murphy

Penn State Altoona English professor to present poetry reading and workshop

September 03, 2025

Students standing at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.

Penn State students immerse themselves in ancient Rome on summer study abroad

September 03, 2025

A head and shoulders photo of a smiling Siqi Zheng.

MIT professor to deliver Jaffe Lecture on Sept. 19 at Penn State Smeal

September 02, 2025

Illustration of map and GIS symbol

University Libraries to offer fall workshops on maps and GIS topics

September 02, 2025

Penn State baseball player Brayden Patton, wearing a gray uniform and cap, pitches the ball during a game on a sunny afternoon.

Greater Allegheny internships prepare students for careers

September 02, 2025

Luke Snyder sitting and waving in a giant CNN logo

Eagerness drives broadcast journalism/meteorology major to CNN internship

September 02, 2025

A graphic of the blue and white Penn State academic shield

Lehigh Valley Announces Summer 2025 Dean’s List

September 02, 2025

Old Main early morning

Penn State Global, Fox Graduate School announce graduate student travel grants

September 02, 2025

A group photograph of ARL leadership posing with the recipient of the Josiah Christophel internship and members of the Christophel family

Applied Research Laboratory announces new internship program

September 02, 2025

brick and glass campus building in background with summer flowers in foreground

IST receives $1.5 million grant to educate future AI+cybersecurity leaders

September 02, 2025

Two girls work on a wind turbine while seated on a wood floor.

$5M NSF grant to enhance elementary STEM education in Mid-Atlantic

September 02, 2025

Six headshots of the 2025 IIF awardees surround the One Health Microbiome Center's logo.

Interdisciplinary Innovation Fellowship awards six trainee-led projects

September 02, 2025

A man sitting at a lab desk with research equipment surrounding him.

Andrew Patterson named Huck associate director for shared and core facilities

September 01, 2025

Erin Murphy

Penn State Altoona professor publishes anthology of work poems on Labor Day

September 01, 2025

A composite of headshot of ten teachers

TLT recognizes new Penn State faculty for enhancing teaching with technology

August 29, 2025

A bee collects pollen from the center of a purple daisy-like flower, with a blurred background of similar flowers.

Geography lecture to spotlight pollinator conservation and technology

August 29, 2025

Andy Feinstein

University of Northern Colorado president named 2025-26 Conti professor

August 29, 2025

A nutritionist holds supplements while talking to a woman in a gym.

Department of Nutritional Sciences now offers new minor in sports nutrition 

August 29, 2025

Scans of a lychee seed and a mouse brain done in the Huck Institutes' High-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility

Huck launches new seed grant program to support research in MRI Core Facility

August 29, 2025

Shaver's Creek

From Shaver’s Creek to Ghana and beyond, a Penn Stater is building community

August 29, 2025

The Pennsylvania State University seal in back of the HUB

Students invited to apply for University Committee on the Assessment of Learning

August 29, 2025

Engineering student working on fuel tank design

‘Research Readiness’ workshop series begins for undergraduates

August 29, 2025

soccer ball, sneakers and high heels

Fashion or fandom? Abington student athlete’s internship guiding her career path

August 28, 2025

Blue gloved hands using a pipette to transfer liquid into small, labeled test tubes arranged in a white plastic holder. Another gloved hand is holding a small purple container.

New seed funding opportunities available for Commonwealth Campus faculty

August 28, 2025

college professor with dark hair and glasses speaks to class

Tailoring teaching design to help more students succeed

August 28, 2025

Corporate Finance Boot Camp students visit Marriott International Headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland

Corporate Finance Boot Camp offers unique insights for Penn State Smeal students

August 28, 2025

Graduate students in the African Studies Program gather with faculty member Sinfree Makoni.

African Studies Program expands through dual-title doctorate, graduate minor

August 28, 2025

Jeff Stoyanoff

Penn State Altoona professor accepted to attend symposium

August 28, 2025

A photo of Jeff King with sunglasses and a hat, sitting on a boat.

Volunteer, philanthropist Jeff King: Remembering a Penn State legend

August 28, 2025

Side-by-side portraits of a a grad student and his adviser.

Nuclear engineering grad student awarded Department of Energy fellowship

August 27, 2025

Ben Lindgren stands in front of the Whole Foods Market logo at company headquarters in Austin, Texas.

Chapel Intern puts sustainable development into practice

August 27, 2025

Headshots of three new faculty members

Great Valley welcomes three new faculty in AI, management, engineering

August 27, 2025

Mushroom Mania

'Mushroom Mania' workshop connects Pennsylvania educators to global solutions

August 27, 2025

Berks Lion Shrine

Penn State Berks announces summer dean’s list

August 27, 2025

Penn State launches online master’s degree in computer science

August 27, 2025

Green trees line the shore of Beech Creek under a blue sky

Research sheds light on Beech Creek’s struggle with abandoned mine drainage

August 27, 2025

Immersive Environments Lab

Stuckeman School expands teaching, creativity with Immersive Environments Lab

August 26, 2025

A bell is pictured on a sunny day.

Schedule announced for 2025-26 Promotion and Tenure Workshop Series

August 26, 2025

A headshot of a professor and new associate department head of nuclear engineering at Penn State.

Elia Merzari named associate head of Penn State’s nuclear engineering department

August 26, 2025

Juan Diego Falls at el Yunque rainforest Puerto Rico

Penn State Altoona to offer alternative spring break 2026 information sessions

August 26, 2025

Lisa Gatzke-Kopp

Lisa Gatzke-Kopp named head of human development and family studies

August 26, 2025

Penn State faculty, staff and students now have access to an online portal of classrooms across the University.

Discovering the right room and tech now: Learning Spaces Manager portal launches

August 26, 2025

CommAgency students work on equipment

CommAgency seeks clients for fall 2025 communications work

August 26, 2025

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