Students from other universities who are looking for smaller class sizes, shorter commutes or a place to build on their community college education can visit Penn State Beaver during Transfer Week, set for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12, through Friday, Dec. 16, in the admissions office.
Applications for the Penn State Secondary Mathematics Noyce Scholarship Program must be submitted by Jan. 18, 2017. The competitive renewable scholarships will provide $19,000 per year for eligible students’ last two years of college.
Five students from Penn State Beaver, Shenango and New Kensington are helping to implement Bridges to Life, a restorative justice program, in Beaver County. As the inaugural cohort of Beaver County-based facilitators, the students will not only go into the Beaver County Jail to work with inmates, but they will also be responsible for training future volunteers of the Bridges program and extending the reach of restorative justice.
Beaver, Shenango and New Kensington students visited a prison in Indiana to receive training for Bridges to Life, a restorative justice program they plan to implement in Beaver County this spring.
IST major Leighton Markus, second from left, won the first Penn State Beaver Lion's Den idea competition with a drone that delivers refreshments to spectators at sporting events.
