The Syrian refugee crisis was just beginning in 2012 when, on a whim, Lydia Williams she picked up a book called “The Syrian Rebellion” by Fouad Ajami. It changed her life. Now a senior political science major at Penn State Harrisburg, Williams traveled to Turkey this year to study the plight of the refugees through the Turkish Heritage Organization Summer Research Program.
Kent Whiting, a 2007 Penn State Harrisburg graduate, has committed a gift of $150,000 to support new track and field facilities at the college. The Whiting Family Throwing Complex will help Penn State Harrisburg take its track and field program to a new level of excellence by providing for a facility on campus. The track and field teams currently train at off-campus locations.
E. Philip Wenger, chairman and CEO of Fulton Financial Corp., who received his bachelor of science degree in finance in 1979 from Penn State and his MBA from Penn State Harrisburg in 1987, has been named an Alumni Fellow by the Penn State Alumni Association.
Rick Barger, a 1971 bachelor’s of business administration graduate of Penn State Harrisburg, has received the Philip Philip Mitchell Alumni Service Award from the Penn State Alumni Association for his significant contributions in public service on
behalf of the University.
The 2018–19 Institutes of Energy and the Environment seed grant recipients have been awarded to 18 groups of interdisciplinary researchers at Penn State.
Penn State Behrend graduate Olivia Dubin could not attend the college's May 3 commencement ceremony because she is completing an internship in Germany. Dubin, who earned a degree in plastics engineering technology, used one of the college's robots to participate in the program remotely.
This spring about 14,000 Penn State graduates received diplomas across the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Thousands of these graduates took part in commencement ceremonies at campuses other than University Park. This photo album offers glimpses of these graduates and those commencement ceremonies throughout Pennsylvania.
