Alexa Hodge, Coordinator of Student Support Services, The Aspiring Scholars Program and the Pathway to Success: Summer Start Program at Penn State Berks, is one of the winners of the 2023 Student Success Team Builders Award.
The Lambert Undergraduate Advising Center at Penn State Harrisburg will host its annual Majors Fest from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 5, in the Capital Union Building Events Room (210).
This year marks 25 years since the 1998 launch of Penn State World Campus, which expanded access to high-quality Penn State degrees to anyone around the globe with an internet connection. Today World Campus boasts a comprehensive selection of more than 175 Penn State degrees that are available online, including a variety of programs in criminal justice, homeland security and public policy.
Aliya Karim, a pre-med student at University Park who is from Ghana, takes a soil sample on the University Park campus. Karim, who served as an undergraduate mentor in the EnvironMentors program last year, researched the effects of soil health on microbial diversity along with high schooler Fatima Nadeem (not pictured).
The Graduate School has hosted alumni career development panels annually for several years. Pictured are participants and moderators in the 2022 event: Stephanie Danette Preston, associate dean for graduate educational equity and chief diversity officer, the Graduate School; Tiffany Knearem, Information Sciences and Technology alumna; Joslenne Peña, Information Sciences and Technology alumna; and Sarah Ades, associate dean for graduate student affairs, the Graduate School
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History Emerita at New York University, at noon Thursday, Sept. 28, via webinar. Kaplan will present “Caribbean Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in the Dominican Republic, 1940-1945.”
