Beaver faculty and staff are invited to nominate a student commencement speaker for the Dec. 16 ceremony. The deadline for submitting nominations is Nov. 16.
Penn State Laureate Rebecca Strzelec will visit Penn State Beaver on Nov. 9 and 10 to give three presentations about her work as a visual artist and object maker.
Five teams have been chosen as finalists in Penn State Beaver's idea competition and will pitch their proposals to a panel of judges at 4 p.m. on Nov. 15 in the Student Union Building Lodge.
Juliette Storr, a Penn State Beaver associate professor of communications, will speak about her new book, “Journalism in a Small Place: Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive and Independent," on Nov. 16 in Room 16 of the Student Union Building.
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.
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.
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.
