The Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) has awarded seed grants to 22 groups of interdisciplinary researchers for the 2020-21 award cycle. This year, seed grants were awarded to proposals focusing on at least one of IEE’s five strategic research themes — Climate and Ecosystem Change, Health and the Environment, Integrated Energy Systems, Urban Systems, and Water and Biogeochemical Cycles.
The Graduate School Alumni Society is now accepting nominations for its annual graduate alumni recognition awards—the Early Career Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, and Humanitarian Award.
As part of our regular "We Are!" feature, we recognize thirteen Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what's asked of them in their work at the University. Thank you Ashley, Kathleen, Ebonie, Alice, Kristen, Nathan, Emily, Clark, John, Jolene, Lisa, Olivia and Tracy — and everyone who helps make Penn State such an incredible community!
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities' fall 2020 play, “Machinal,” won seven awards at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, a conference for theater education for students and faculty in higher education.
Kaitlin and Shane Behmer donated more than $100,000 worth of luxury men's and women's dress clothes to Penn State Harrisburg's Career Closet after the coronavirus pandemic, and an urge to try something new, made them decide to close their high-end fashion store in 2020.
Penn State Harrisburg has announced the passing of former Chancellor Mukund S. Kulkarni on June 2. A resident of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, he was 75. Kulkarni retired from the college in 2018, after more than 30 years of service to Penn State.
Laurie Dobrosky Henry, associate director for alumni relations at Penn State Harrisburg, has been named the recipient of the 2021 Karen and Lewis Gold Penn State Alumni Association Staff Recognition Award.
Marissa Graby Hoover, senior director of Alumni Relations and Development at Penn State Harrisburg, has been named a Women of Influence honoree by the Central Penn Business Journal.
The newest class of deputy sheriffs graduated from the Pennsylvania Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff Education and Training Program, thanks to the collaboration between Penn State and Pennsylvania, on Friday, May 7.
