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

September 02, 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

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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

Penn State launches online master’s degree in computer science

August 27, 2025

Four people in a classroom

Penn State launches artificial intelligence engineering degree and minor

August 20, 2025

A group of pre-teens works with a mold in a metal-casting lab at Penn State Behrend.

Kids forge future in Behrend ‘Made in America’ class

August 19, 2025

A woman communicating in American Sign Language

Communication Sciences and Disorders now offering minor in American Sign Language

August 18, 2025

Sign next to a trail that reads, "please take nothing but pictures leave nothing but footprints."

Penn State to offer Leave No Trace Level 2 certification

August 15, 2025

Community cinema course returns to Penn State Schuylkill this fall

August 13, 2025

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Research need inspires student opportunity

August 04, 2025

William Syrett leads weather camp

For 25 years, Weather Camp offers home to high-school-aged enthusiasts

July 16, 2025

A group of students sits around a table in a library or classroom setting, engaged in discussion and writing. Two instructors stand with them, smiling and interacting. Bookshelves, chairs, and a clock are visible in the background, suggesting an academic or collaborative learning environment.

Penn State Altoona faculty lead students in collaborative poetry project

July 08, 2025

Nasibeh Zohrabi with Jen Nesbitt

Brandywine engineering professor honored with Open Champions Award

July 01, 2025

Dr. Grant Risha poses with the student team chosen as best performers in the spring 2025 Engineering Design Competition

Penn State Altoona mechanical engineering students compete in design competition

June 24, 2025

A group of people pose with a blue Penn State flag in a conference room.

Students travel to Hungary for international learning experience

June 17, 2025

Second Degree Nursing Program to Launch at Penn State Behrend.

Second-Degree Nursing Program to launch at Penn State Behrend

June 16, 2025

Penn State DuBois Continuing Education will be launching its initial cohort of the Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) program in August.

Penn State DuBois to launch Practical Nursing certificate program

June 06, 2025

Course gives students a hands-on experience in alumni’s street medicine program

May 28, 2025

Graduate student Harman and undergraduates Laura and Maria work together at a computer on a research project about waste management.

Graduate student mentorship helps undergraduates build research skills

May 20, 2025

Fiona Combs (left) and Sé Morrisson (right)—two spring 2025 quadruple-major graduates—stand next to each other in front of the stage at the College of the Liberal Arts commencement ceremony in the Bryce Jordan Center on May 10, 2025.

Two students, eight degrees: Penn State graduates complete quadruple majors

May 15, 2025

INTAG anniversary

International agriculture minor program marks 40th anniversary with trip to Capitol

May 13, 2025

Daniel Eaton, a nursing instructor at Penn State Behrend, poses in a simulation lab.

Behrend professor preps next generation of nurses

May 06, 2025

red brick and glass campus building with spring blossoms in foreground

IST announces new information technology ethics and compliance major

May 05, 2025

Penn State York students experience Virtual Reality headsets during Biology class.

York integrates virtual reality across disciplines for a new educational reality

May 05, 2025

Group of people on stairs

From Penn State to Switzerland: Students gain cross cultural leadership skills

April 25, 2025

David Joachim teaching a journalism course to classroom of Bellisario College students.

Journalism professor aims to prepare students for unprecedented times

April 24, 2025

Students walking on campus on a sunny day

Penn State Berks summer sessions begin May 19

April 23, 2025

Margaret Luciano teaches in one of Smeal's virtual teaching studios in front of an array of monitors

Penn State Smeal virtual teaching studios attract new audiences

April 22, 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

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

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

Nursing students use a VR simulation to help prepare them to handle workplace violence.

Penn State Altoona nursing students use VR to prepare for workplace violence

April 11, 2025

High school students enjoy a presentation by Penn State Engineering Ambassadors

Over 100 high school students experience Engineering Day at Penn State Scranton

April 11, 2025

Staff and student at Earth Day event

Penn State Berks to host Earth Day event, tree planting, City Nature Challenge

April 09, 2025

Tobias Brinkmann (left) talks to his students in front of him while standing in a parking lot outside a building in the former ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Penn State students study Holocaust history in Baltics through embedded program

April 08, 2025

road-stream-crossing-culvert-replacement

New course helps students plan and design conservation structures on farms

April 02, 2025

Ayaan Umar speaking in front of class

Students Teaching Students enters fifth year

March 26, 2025

Student Souper Bowl winner is pictured with Food Services staff.

Penn State Berks hospitality management students take 3rd place in 'Souper Bowl'

March 18, 2025

A head and shoulders photo of a smiling Luke Wagner

Wagner first recipient of Penn State Smeal’s Bisbee Award

March 17, 2025

A split image of a man in a baseball gap at left and a woman in glasses at right.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre surveying students pursuing different goals, paths

March 14, 2025

Professor Longo poses with her students and recent guest speaker

Strategic speaking course empowers Scranton students to master public speaking

March 11, 2025

A group of students, faculty, staff and donors posing for a photo at the induction of the 14th class of Sheetz Fellows

Penn State Altoona inducts 14th Sheetz Fellows class

March 11, 2025

a female students works on her engineering marble run project

Penn State Lehigh Valley holds events to celebrate National Engineers’ Week

March 10, 2025

Laci Campbell wears a gray Liberal Arts Chaiken Center quarter-zip sweatshirt that says “Peer Success Coach” on the sleeve while standing in front of bushes and trees outside Pattee Library and Paterno Library.

Chaiken Scholar paves the way to law school for herself and her peers

March 05, 2025

Roll the Dice header

Roll the dice! Game teaches agribusiness majors principles of entrepreneurship

March 05, 2025

brick and glass campus building at dusk

IST announces new major in artificial intelligence, enrolling for fall 2025

March 05, 2025

A student presents her 3d model figurine concept to a panel of judges during the Arts Business Idea Competition. Mimicking the look of her 3d model, she wears a pink ponytail wig and vibrant outfit.

College of Arts and Architecture launches arts entrepreneurship minor

February 21, 2025

Computer screen

Complete the new Data Sciences degree program at Penn State Abington

February 20, 2025

A graduate student stands on a balcony in Penn State Behrend's plastics engineering technology lab.

Behrend to host graduate degree info sessions

February 18, 2025

Elana Laing (front left) and Victor Frolenko (front right) demonstrate the merengue dance style during their SPAN 197 course in front of three other students in a classroom.

Liberal Arts students blend dance and culture in new Spanish course

February 18, 2025

Professor interacting with students

Hospitality program to introduce high school students to career opportunities

February 17, 2025

A photo taken behind a student sitting at a table painting.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre gallery displaying students’ art

February 12, 2025

An example of a necklace made by Bobbi Shaffer, who will be the instructor for the upcoming jewelry making courses at Penn State DuBois.

Jewelry-making, metalsmithing courses returning to Penn State DuBois

February 12, 2025

A person rowing a boat on a river among houses on stilts.

Stuckeman School exhibition to showcase urban floodplain communities in Peru

February 11, 2025

Students standing a looking at screens in a technology classroom

College of Arts and Architecture offers its first general-education AI course

January 29, 2025

Two high school girls face each other and smile while building a model pipeline out of cardboard tubes.

Behrend’s ‘Women in Engineering’ program maps STEM career paths

January 28, 2025

Four students standing around a bin of food donations helping sort them

New course partners with State College Food Bank to promote service and learning

January 27, 2025

HealthWorks Peer Educators tabling in the HUB

Penn State's HealthWorks Peer Education Program now accepting applications

January 23, 2025

Penn State Schuylkill offers Community Cinema Course

January 22, 2025

Students looking at a poster display

Penn State Berks holds Sustainability Expo, open to the public

January 22, 2025

Stethescope, pad of paper and pen overlaid in blue

Harrisburg offers virtual information sessions for second-degree nursing program

January 21, 2025

Professor Dima Rabadi works with students on laptops

Four-year Information Technology degree now available at Penn State Shenango

January 21, 2025

Skiing instructor leveraging Professional Snowsports Education Certificate

January 07, 2025

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New course helps students discover how computers make sense of human language

December 10, 2024

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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

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

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

Penn State launches online master’s degree in computer science

August 27, 2025

Four people in a classroom

Penn State launches artificial intelligence engineering degree and minor

August 20, 2025

A group of pre-teens works with a mold in a metal-casting lab at Penn State Behrend.

Kids forge future in Behrend ‘Made in America’ class

August 19, 2025

A woman communicating in American Sign Language

Communication Sciences and Disorders now offering minor in American Sign Language

August 18, 2025

Sign next to a trail that reads, "please take nothing but pictures leave nothing but footprints."

Penn State to offer Leave No Trace Level 2 certification

August 15, 2025

Community cinema course returns to Penn State Schuylkill this fall

August 13, 2025

Person stands behind a monitor at a podium

Research need inspires student opportunity

August 04, 2025

William Syrett leads weather camp

For 25 years, Weather Camp offers home to high-school-aged enthusiasts

July 16, 2025

A group of students sits around a table in a library or classroom setting, engaged in discussion and writing. Two instructors stand with them, smiling and interacting. Bookshelves, chairs, and a clock are visible in the background, suggesting an academic or collaborative learning environment.

Penn State Altoona faculty lead students in collaborative poetry project

July 08, 2025

Nasibeh Zohrabi with Jen Nesbitt

Brandywine engineering professor honored with Open Champions Award

July 01, 2025

Dr. Grant Risha poses with the student team chosen as best performers in the spring 2025 Engineering Design Competition

Penn State Altoona mechanical engineering students compete in design competition

June 24, 2025

A group of people pose with a blue Penn State flag in a conference room.

Students travel to Hungary for international learning experience

June 17, 2025

Second Degree Nursing Program to Launch at Penn State Behrend.

Second-Degree Nursing Program to launch at Penn State Behrend

June 16, 2025

Penn State DuBois Continuing Education will be launching its initial cohort of the Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) program in August.

Penn State DuBois to launch Practical Nursing certificate program

June 06, 2025

Course gives students a hands-on experience in alumni’s street medicine program

May 28, 2025

Graduate student Harman and undergraduates Laura and Maria work together at a computer on a research project about waste management.

Graduate student mentorship helps undergraduates build research skills

May 20, 2025

Fiona Combs (left) and Sé Morrisson (right)—two spring 2025 quadruple-major graduates—stand next to each other in front of the stage at the College of the Liberal Arts commencement ceremony in the Bryce Jordan Center on May 10, 2025.

Two students, eight degrees: Penn State graduates complete quadruple majors

May 15, 2025

INTAG anniversary

International agriculture minor program marks 40th anniversary with trip to Capitol

May 13, 2025

Daniel Eaton, a nursing instructor at Penn State Behrend, poses in a simulation lab.

Behrend professor preps next generation of nurses

May 06, 2025

red brick and glass campus building with spring blossoms in foreground

IST announces new information technology ethics and compliance major

May 05, 2025

Penn State York students experience Virtual Reality headsets during Biology class.

York integrates virtual reality across disciplines for a new educational reality

May 05, 2025

Group of people on stairs

From Penn State to Switzerland: Students gain cross cultural leadership skills

April 25, 2025

David Joachim teaching a journalism course to classroom of Bellisario College students.

Journalism professor aims to prepare students for unprecedented times

April 24, 2025

Students walking on campus on a sunny day

Penn State Berks summer sessions begin May 19

April 23, 2025

Margaret Luciano teaches in one of Smeal's virtual teaching studios in front of an array of monitors

Penn State Smeal virtual teaching studios attract new audiences

April 22, 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

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

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

Nursing students use a VR simulation to help prepare them to handle workplace violence.

Penn State Altoona nursing students use VR to prepare for workplace violence

April 11, 2025

High school students enjoy a presentation by Penn State Engineering Ambassadors

Over 100 high school students experience Engineering Day at Penn State Scranton

April 11, 2025

Staff and student at Earth Day event

Penn State Berks to host Earth Day event, tree planting, City Nature Challenge

April 09, 2025

Tobias Brinkmann (left) talks to his students in front of him while standing in a parking lot outside a building in the former ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Penn State students study Holocaust history in Baltics through embedded program

April 08, 2025

road-stream-crossing-culvert-replacement

New course helps students plan and design conservation structures on farms

April 02, 2025

Ayaan Umar speaking in front of class

Students Teaching Students enters fifth year

March 26, 2025

Student Souper Bowl winner is pictured with Food Services staff.

Penn State Berks hospitality management students take 3rd place in 'Souper Bowl'

March 18, 2025

A head and shoulders photo of a smiling Luke Wagner

Wagner first recipient of Penn State Smeal’s Bisbee Award

March 17, 2025

A split image of a man in a baseball gap at left and a woman in glasses at right.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre surveying students pursuing different goals, paths

March 14, 2025

Professor Longo poses with her students and recent guest speaker

Strategic speaking course empowers Scranton students to master public speaking

March 11, 2025

A group of students, faculty, staff and donors posing for a photo at the induction of the 14th class of Sheetz Fellows

Penn State Altoona inducts 14th Sheetz Fellows class

March 11, 2025

a female students works on her engineering marble run project

Penn State Lehigh Valley holds events to celebrate National Engineers’ Week

March 10, 2025

Laci Campbell wears a gray Liberal Arts Chaiken Center quarter-zip sweatshirt that says “Peer Success Coach” on the sleeve while standing in front of bushes and trees outside Pattee Library and Paterno Library.

Chaiken Scholar paves the way to law school for herself and her peers

March 05, 2025

Roll the Dice header

Roll the dice! Game teaches agribusiness majors principles of entrepreneurship

March 05, 2025

brick and glass campus building at dusk

IST announces new major in artificial intelligence, enrolling for fall 2025

March 05, 2025

A student presents her 3d model figurine concept to a panel of judges during the Arts Business Idea Competition. Mimicking the look of her 3d model, she wears a pink ponytail wig and vibrant outfit.

College of Arts and Architecture launches arts entrepreneurship minor

February 21, 2025

Computer screen

Complete the new Data Sciences degree program at Penn State Abington

February 20, 2025

A graduate student stands on a balcony in Penn State Behrend's plastics engineering technology lab.

Behrend to host graduate degree info sessions

February 18, 2025

Elana Laing (front left) and Victor Frolenko (front right) demonstrate the merengue dance style during their SPAN 197 course in front of three other students in a classroom.

Liberal Arts students blend dance and culture in new Spanish course

February 18, 2025

Professor interacting with students

Hospitality program to introduce high school students to career opportunities

February 17, 2025

A photo taken behind a student sitting at a table painting.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre gallery displaying students’ art

February 12, 2025

An example of a necklace made by Bobbi Shaffer, who will be the instructor for the upcoming jewelry making courses at Penn State DuBois.

Jewelry-making, metalsmithing courses returning to Penn State DuBois

February 12, 2025

A person rowing a boat on a river among houses on stilts.

Stuckeman School exhibition to showcase urban floodplain communities in Peru

February 11, 2025

Students standing a looking at screens in a technology classroom

College of Arts and Architecture offers its first general-education AI course

January 29, 2025

Two high school girls face each other and smile while building a model pipeline out of cardboard tubes.

Behrend’s ‘Women in Engineering’ program maps STEM career paths

January 28, 2025

Four students standing around a bin of food donations helping sort them

New course partners with State College Food Bank to promote service and learning

January 27, 2025

HealthWorks Peer Educators tabling in the HUB

Penn State's HealthWorks Peer Education Program now accepting applications

January 23, 2025

Penn State Schuylkill offers Community Cinema Course

January 22, 2025

Students looking at a poster display

Penn State Berks holds Sustainability Expo, open to the public

January 22, 2025

Stethescope, pad of paper and pen overlaid in blue

Harrisburg offers virtual information sessions for second-degree nursing program

January 21, 2025

Professor Dima Rabadi works with students on laptops

Four-year Information Technology degree now available at Penn State Shenango

January 21, 2025

Skiing instructor leveraging Professional Snowsports Education Certificate

January 07, 2025

drawing of hand drawing lightbulb with chalk

New course helps students discover how computers make sense of human language

December 10, 2024

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