Degree‑seeking graduate students from all Penn State colleges and campuses are invited to register for the 2026 Graduate Exhibition, which will take place Friday, March 27, on the University Park campus.
Vahid Motevalli has been named vice chancellor for academic affairs at Penn State Harrisburg, effective Jan. 1. He has served as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at the college since July 2023.
A Penn State-led research team has received a $1.6 million international Belmont Forum grant to study how building design, infrastructure and development decisions can help reduce malaria risk worldwide.
Penn State faculty steered updated research, care guidance for the Female Athlete Triad — when energy deficiency leads to menstrual dysfunction and poor bone health — including a first-of-its-kind adolescent model of the condition.
Penn State’s research enterprise exceeded $1.44 billion in research expenditures in fiscal year 2024-25 — marking another year of record University-wide growth — and Penn State Harrisburg made crucial contributions to that momentum. Building on the strength of the University’s expanding research impact, the college reached its own record levels of productivity this year, contributing $9.8 million in research expenditures, a 32% increase over the previous year.
In this Q&A, Tony Lynch, assistant professor of supply chain management at Penn State Harrisburg, explained how tariffs, the longest government shutdown on record and the grounding of the MD-11 cargo planes used by UPS and FedEx may impact Black Friday deals and product availability through the holidays.
Tara McCarty, a Penn State alumna turned Penn State Harrisburg faculty member, is working to help improve communication solutions for children with a brain-based visual impairment.
Graduate assistants across multiple Penn State campuses will soon vote in a unionization election, following an order issued by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. All students are encouraged to make a thoughtful, informed vote, and can find information on how unionization would affect them at gradfacts.psu.edu.
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute, with co-sponsorship from the Center for Medical Innovation, has awarded $200,000 in grants to support four interdisciplinary, multi-investigator pilot research projects. The projects were awarded under the Bridges to Translation Pilot Funding Program and the Translational Science Pilot Funding Program, both of which were designed to give researchers an opportunity to explore new ideas and gather more information in preparation for larger grant opportunities from outside organizations.
On the heels of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Penn State faculty will host the Goddard Forum 2025 — Flood Risk in the Mid-Atlantic, with the aim of enhancing collaboration and engagement in flood risk management.
