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2021CommencementYork

2021CommencementPennStateYork

Tangneka Miracle Nguyen waves to the crowd from the infield during the Penn State York commencement at PeoplesBank Park in York, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, May 8. A member of the Class of 2021, Nguyen earned a bachelor of science in biology degree with the Genetic and Developmental Biology option.  During her time as a student at the York campus, Nguyen was part of the honors program, served as a teaching assistant in cell biology, worked as an EMT for West York Ambulance, and her goal is to attend physician assistant school.  This is the first in-person commencement since  fall 2019 and the first time for the ceremony to take place off campus.  The ballpark is home to the York Revolution, a member of the Atlantic League of professional baseball.

A man in academic regalia including picks up his small daughter in front of Schuylkill's lion shrine.

2021CommencementSchuylkill

Senior psychology major Mitchell Stokes, left, graduated at a ceremony held on the Penn State Schuylkill campus on Saturday, May 8, 2021. Stokes is a Navy veteran who owns his own gym and is father to the happy little girl in this image. Following graduation, he plans to pursue graduate studies with the goal of ultimately working as a mental health professional for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. View more photos from Penn State Schuylkill's commencement ceremony >

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2021CommencementLehighValley

Graduate Makayla Brown-Paul hugged her family after Penn State Lehigh Valley's annual commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 8 held at the Lehigh Valley campus. The campus awarded associate and bachelor’s degrees to 72 students. The featured speaker for the event was Dr. Suresh Nair, physician-in-chief of Lehigh Valley Cancer Institute (class of 1982). Lehigh Valley Corporate communication student Savannah Malesky also spoke during the ceremony as the 2021 Student Marshal. For more photos, visit: https://news.psu.edu/gallery/658308/2021/05/10/penn-state-lehigh-valley-2021-commencement-photo-gallery.

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2021CommencementHarrisburg

Penn State Harrisburg celebrated its spring Class of 2021 with three ceremonies on May 6 and 7. The college conferred more than 800 degrees this semester. Here, a graduate from the School of Science, Engineering and Technology reads the program. More photos available here.

Katya Iatsenko

2021CommencementBrandywine

Penn State Brandywine graduate Katya Iatsenko, who earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and was a Lion Ambassador and undergraduate researcher, was one of the student speakers at the ceremonies. 

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Researchers have collected, classified and categorized more than 19,000 tweets to give insight into the frustrations and joys experienced by breastfeeding mothers that could inform policies and interventions to support them.