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A display showing an historical costume and documents

2025 Constitution Day events to be held at Penn State campuses

September 09, 2025

Malcolm X Centenary event poster with a smiling man wearing glasses

Malcolm X Centenary event, reception to be held Sept. 30

September 08, 2025

Open For Debate event banner shows headshots of two people side-by-side

Disagree better: Inaugural ‘Open for Debate’ Event to be held on Sept. 25

September 08, 2025

Glen Mazis delivering lecture in front of audience

Emeritus Academy and OLLI partner for 2025-26 lecture series

September 08, 2025

people walking into the forest

'Shinrin-Yoku, Forest Bathing,' practice begins Sept. 9

September 05, 2025

Penn State Altoona professors’ podcast welcomes author Matthew Trifan

September 05, 2025

Graphic novel author to receive Lynd Ward Prize, give author talk on Oct. 24

September 05, 2025

Sept. 17 webinar to address Pennsylvania solar development trends

September 05, 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

slide displays two researcher headshots and lecture titles

IST announces Research Talks series for fall 2025 semester

September 04, 2025

flashlight beam

Penn State’s Fall ‘Night at the Museums’ event scheduled for evening of Sept. 11

September 04, 2025

Huck Distinguished Lecture Series to host biochemist on Sept. 9

September 04, 2025

Mónica Ortiz Rossi performs with Sanctuario

Kulkarni Cultural Series presents Sanctuario on Sept. 17 at Penn State Harrisburg

September 04, 2025

Marjorie Rendell watching a group of students at a Rendell Center event.

Center founders to explore the future of civic education in Sept. 25 lecture

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

Fall EarthTalks will spotlight critical minerals as economic, security necessity

September 02, 2025

Illustration of map and GIS symbol

University Libraries to offer fall workshops on maps and GIS topics

September 02, 2025

Multicolored tapestry made with small colorful squares installed in a linear pattern

Woskob Gallery to host closing reception for Hinojosa’s ‘Summer Pop-up’ Sept. 5

September 02, 2025

A Brief Moment in the Sun, an exhibition of paintings by Pittsburgh-based artist Jamie Earnest

HUB Galleries to host reception for Art Alley exhibit, 'A Brief Moment in the Sun'

September 01, 2025

Critically acclaimed author Pemi Aguda sitting on a chair in front of a plant

‘Pemi Aguda to kick off 2025-26 Mary E. Rolling Reading Series on Sept. 11

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

Altoona professors explore horror’s cathartic nature, role in social protest

August 29, 2025

A smiling Black man wearing a dark suit stands against a dark wall.

Don’t miss a beat: Jazz drummer identifies ways to connect students and the arts

August 28, 2025

Smiling woman with curly shoulder length red hair

Ballerina, media historian Pamela Krayenbuhl to talk on aesthetics, politics of dance

August 27, 2025

Venetian Mysteries

School of Music to host North American premiere of 'Venetian Mysteries'

August 26, 2025

Penn State Altoona professors’ podcast explores 'food horror'

August 25, 2025

A portrait of Lynzie Nebel, co-host of the PlastChicks podcast.

Behrend alumna uses podcast about plastics to become the ‘voice of resin’

August 25, 2025

A split-screen image of a folded piece of paper in the style or origami.

Interactive art exhibition focusing on the ‘new’ nomadic culture opens Aug. 29

August 21, 2025

PSU Recital Hall

School of Music announces 2025–26 'Rhapsody Series' of faculty recitals

August 20, 2025

Comedian Eddie Griffin to perform at Bryce Jordan Center Sept. 12

August 20, 2025

A smiling man wears a suit plays the drums

Ulysses Owens Jr. Big Band will bring energy to Sept. 10 Penn State debut

August 20, 2025

Woman Working on Home Finances at the Desk

Building money skills, one step at a time

August 20, 2025

a pink tie-dye background with black font text

Lehigh Valley Arts Project announces fall 2025 workshop offerings

August 20, 2025

White background with blue text that says Science Matters: Spotlight Sessions.

Eberly College introduces Science Matters: Spotlight Sessions outreach events

August 18, 2025

Graphic for Pre-Game Roar Tour at Hintz

Roar Tour events to unite Penn Staters this football season

August 18, 2025

Community cinema course returns to Penn State Schuylkill this fall

August 13, 2025

A group of attendees walking outside during a past Summer Arts Festival

Summer Arts Festival returns to Penn State Wilkes-Barre Aug. 24

August 11, 2025

Penn State Altoona professors’ podcast welcomes acclaimed horror author

August 06, 2025

A group of women and young girls pose at Penn State Behrend's annual Run for Women 5K.

Behrend to host Run for Women 5K on Aug. 24

August 05, 2025

A close-up photo of a dancer's feet mid-air, wearing black character tap shoes with a low heel and ankle straps.

Penn State Altoona to host fall 2025 tap classes

August 05, 2025

Artist Terri Yacovelli creating encaustic wax artwork.

Encaustic art exhibit coming to Penn State Wilkes-Barre's Friedman Art Gallery

July 22, 2025

Penn State Altoona faculty to host live chat with author Paul Tremblay

July 21, 2025

Headshots of Sean Griffey and Ryan Willumson

Industry Dive co-founders Sean Griffey, Ryan Willumson on 'Dare to Disrupt'

June 04, 2025

Students work in the Krause Pedagogical Innovation Laboratory.

Maker Day Camps offered in Krause Pedagogical Innovation Lab in August

June 04, 2025

Gallery’s summer exhibition showcases five artists’ work

June 02, 2025

Gospel documentary by Penn State Altoona emeritus professor to air June 19

June 02, 2025

Music in the Gardens

Penn’s Woods Music Festival returns for vibrant, intimate celebration June 20–22

May 28, 2025

Harriett Gaston

Penn State Altoona employee to offer lecture on Daniel Hale Williams

May 28, 2025

Art installation at HUB-Robeson Galleries, Parenthetic Passage, will be available to view through Oct. 30

New York artist, Camille Hoffman, will be on display in HUB-Robeson Galleries

May 27, 2025

Pieces of ceramic artwork with a white background. Ceramic items look to be tea pots in various sizes and shapes.

'Pour Piece,' a glazed ceramics exhibit, now on display at HUB-Robeson Gallery

May 22, 2025

Altoona professors’ latest 'Horror Joy' podcast explores 'cop horror' films

May 21, 2025

A ballet dancer on pointe in ballet shoes

Penn State Altoona to offer ballet classes beginning June 8

May 20, 2025

We Are Weekend graphic

Early-bird pricing for We Are Weekend ends Thursday, May 22

May 19, 2025

A huge lit torch is backgrounded by stadium stands full of people wearing colorful t-shirts

Special Olympics seeking volunteers for 2025 Summer Games at Penn State

May 16, 2025

The dance Studio in the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts

Penn State Altoona announces summer 2025 open dance classes

May 15, 2025

photo collage showing process of children making paper with plant material

Libraries’ Conservation Centre, Arboretum papermaking events return this summer

May 13, 2025

Four One Night on Broadway performer headshots

‘New One Night on Broadway' takes Centre Stage with Penn State Theatre alumni

May 06, 2025

Closeup of springtime flowers

Nature and wellness unite at the Arboretum’s 'Wild Wellness' event

May 06, 2025

Penn State Forum Speaker Series announces 2025-26 lineup

May 05, 2025

An image of a piece of artwork featuring orange, red, yellow, green and blue tones.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre art gallery features student work

May 05, 2025

Bright green title text with Frankenstein images in the background

Penn State to present premiere of 'True Crime Frankenstein'

April 30, 2025

Neil deGrasse Tyson stands in front of a Hubble telescope image of the solar galaxy.

Tickets go on sale starting April 30 to see astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson

April 29, 2025

A young cow reaches its head through pen bars to inspect a microphone boom.

Deadline to experience the free 200 Acres sound walk is June 30

April 29, 2025

A large room full of shoppers browsing lots of books on tables

AAUW State College to hold 2025 Used Book Sale on May 17-20

April 28, 2025

Livestream talk on April 30 with award-winning television director Mary Lou Belli

April 28, 2025

Bike Den to host Women and Queer Night on May 1

April 23, 2025

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A display showing an historical costume and documents

2025 Constitution Day events to be held at Penn State campuses

September 09, 2025

Malcolm X Centenary event poster with a smiling man wearing glasses

Malcolm X Centenary event, reception to be held Sept. 30

September 08, 2025

Open For Debate event banner shows headshots of two people side-by-side

Disagree better: Inaugural ‘Open for Debate’ Event to be held on Sept. 25

September 08, 2025

Glen Mazis delivering lecture in front of audience

Emeritus Academy and OLLI partner for 2025-26 lecture series

September 08, 2025

people walking into the forest

'Shinrin-Yoku, Forest Bathing,' practice begins Sept. 9

September 05, 2025

Penn State Altoona professors’ podcast welcomes author Matthew Trifan

September 05, 2025

Graphic novel author to receive Lynd Ward Prize, give author talk on Oct. 24

September 05, 2025

Sept. 17 webinar to address Pennsylvania solar development trends

September 05, 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

slide displays two researcher headshots and lecture titles

IST announces Research Talks series for fall 2025 semester

September 04, 2025

flashlight beam

Penn State’s Fall ‘Night at the Museums’ event scheduled for evening of Sept. 11

September 04, 2025

Huck Distinguished Lecture Series to host biochemist on Sept. 9

September 04, 2025

Mónica Ortiz Rossi performs with Sanctuario

Kulkarni Cultural Series presents Sanctuario on Sept. 17 at Penn State Harrisburg

September 04, 2025

Marjorie Rendell watching a group of students at a Rendell Center event.

Center founders to explore the future of civic education in Sept. 25 lecture

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

Fall EarthTalks will spotlight critical minerals as economic, security necessity

September 02, 2025

Illustration of map and GIS symbol

University Libraries to offer fall workshops on maps and GIS topics

September 02, 2025

Multicolored tapestry made with small colorful squares installed in a linear pattern

Woskob Gallery to host closing reception for Hinojosa’s ‘Summer Pop-up’ Sept. 5

September 02, 2025

A Brief Moment in the Sun, an exhibition of paintings by Pittsburgh-based artist Jamie Earnest

HUB Galleries to host reception for Art Alley exhibit, 'A Brief Moment in the Sun'

September 01, 2025

Critically acclaimed author Pemi Aguda sitting on a chair in front of a plant

‘Pemi Aguda to kick off 2025-26 Mary E. Rolling Reading Series on Sept. 11

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

Altoona professors explore horror’s cathartic nature, role in social protest

August 29, 2025

A smiling Black man wearing a dark suit stands against a dark wall.

Don’t miss a beat: Jazz drummer identifies ways to connect students and the arts

August 28, 2025

Smiling woman with curly shoulder length red hair

Ballerina, media historian Pamela Krayenbuhl to talk on aesthetics, politics of dance

August 27, 2025

Venetian Mysteries

School of Music to host North American premiere of 'Venetian Mysteries'

August 26, 2025

Penn State Altoona professors’ podcast explores 'food horror'

August 25, 2025

A portrait of Lynzie Nebel, co-host of the PlastChicks podcast.

Behrend alumna uses podcast about plastics to become the ‘voice of resin’

August 25, 2025

A split-screen image of a folded piece of paper in the style or origami.

Interactive art exhibition focusing on the ‘new’ nomadic culture opens Aug. 29

August 21, 2025

PSU Recital Hall

School of Music announces 2025–26 'Rhapsody Series' of faculty recitals

August 20, 2025

Comedian Eddie Griffin to perform at Bryce Jordan Center Sept. 12

August 20, 2025

A smiling man wears a suit plays the drums

Ulysses Owens Jr. Big Band will bring energy to Sept. 10 Penn State debut

August 20, 2025

Woman Working on Home Finances at the Desk

Building money skills, one step at a time

August 20, 2025

a pink tie-dye background with black font text

Lehigh Valley Arts Project announces fall 2025 workshop offerings

August 20, 2025

White background with blue text that says Science Matters: Spotlight Sessions.

Eberly College introduces Science Matters: Spotlight Sessions outreach events

August 18, 2025

Graphic for Pre-Game Roar Tour at Hintz

Roar Tour events to unite Penn Staters this football season

August 18, 2025

Community cinema course returns to Penn State Schuylkill this fall

August 13, 2025

A group of attendees walking outside during a past Summer Arts Festival

Summer Arts Festival returns to Penn State Wilkes-Barre Aug. 24

August 11, 2025

Penn State Altoona professors’ podcast welcomes acclaimed horror author

August 06, 2025

A group of women and young girls pose at Penn State Behrend's annual Run for Women 5K.

Behrend to host Run for Women 5K on Aug. 24

August 05, 2025

A close-up photo of a dancer's feet mid-air, wearing black character tap shoes with a low heel and ankle straps.

Penn State Altoona to host fall 2025 tap classes

August 05, 2025

Artist Terri Yacovelli creating encaustic wax artwork.

Encaustic art exhibit coming to Penn State Wilkes-Barre's Friedman Art Gallery

July 22, 2025

Penn State Altoona faculty to host live chat with author Paul Tremblay

July 21, 2025

Headshots of Sean Griffey and Ryan Willumson

Industry Dive co-founders Sean Griffey, Ryan Willumson on 'Dare to Disrupt'

June 04, 2025

Students work in the Krause Pedagogical Innovation Laboratory.

Maker Day Camps offered in Krause Pedagogical Innovation Lab in August

June 04, 2025

Gallery’s summer exhibition showcases five artists’ work

June 02, 2025

Gospel documentary by Penn State Altoona emeritus professor to air June 19

June 02, 2025

Music in the Gardens

Penn’s Woods Music Festival returns for vibrant, intimate celebration June 20–22

May 28, 2025

Harriett Gaston

Penn State Altoona employee to offer lecture on Daniel Hale Williams

May 28, 2025

Art installation at HUB-Robeson Galleries, Parenthetic Passage, will be available to view through Oct. 30

New York artist, Camille Hoffman, will be on display in HUB-Robeson Galleries

May 27, 2025

Pieces of ceramic artwork with a white background. Ceramic items look to be tea pots in various sizes and shapes.

'Pour Piece,' a glazed ceramics exhibit, now on display at HUB-Robeson Gallery

May 22, 2025

Altoona professors’ latest 'Horror Joy' podcast explores 'cop horror' films

May 21, 2025

A ballet dancer on pointe in ballet shoes

Penn State Altoona to offer ballet classes beginning June 8

May 20, 2025

We Are Weekend graphic

Early-bird pricing for We Are Weekend ends Thursday, May 22

May 19, 2025

A huge lit torch is backgrounded by stadium stands full of people wearing colorful t-shirts

Special Olympics seeking volunteers for 2025 Summer Games at Penn State

May 16, 2025

The dance Studio in the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts

Penn State Altoona announces summer 2025 open dance classes

May 15, 2025

photo collage showing process of children making paper with plant material

Libraries’ Conservation Centre, Arboretum papermaking events return this summer

May 13, 2025

Four One Night on Broadway performer headshots

‘New One Night on Broadway' takes Centre Stage with Penn State Theatre alumni

May 06, 2025

Closeup of springtime flowers

Nature and wellness unite at the Arboretum’s 'Wild Wellness' event

May 06, 2025

Penn State Forum Speaker Series announces 2025-26 lineup

May 05, 2025

An image of a piece of artwork featuring orange, red, yellow, green and blue tones.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre art gallery features student work

May 05, 2025

Bright green title text with Frankenstein images in the background

Penn State to present premiere of 'True Crime Frankenstein'

April 30, 2025

Neil deGrasse Tyson stands in front of a Hubble telescope image of the solar galaxy.

Tickets go on sale starting April 30 to see astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson

April 29, 2025

A young cow reaches its head through pen bars to inspect a microphone boom.

Deadline to experience the free 200 Acres sound walk is June 30

April 29, 2025

A large room full of shoppers browsing lots of books on tables

AAUW State College to hold 2025 Used Book Sale on May 17-20

April 28, 2025

Livestream talk on April 30 with award-winning television director Mary Lou Belli

April 28, 2025

Bike Den to host Women and Queer Night on May 1

April 23, 2025

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