As the 2025-26 Penn State Laureate, filmmaker and associate professor Pearl Gluck is traveling across the commonwealth to share her films and examine how storytelling lives within communities — not only in places, but through the people who care for them: archivists, artists, educators, librarians, museum guides and local historians who serve as keepers of cultural memory.
The Penn State Beaver campus has been recognized as an accredited arboretum by ArbNet, an international accreditation program based out of the Morton Arboretum of Chicago.
Applications are now being accepted for the Steve A. Garban Grant-In-Aid, for children of Penn State technical service or staff employees. This grant-in-aid, awarded to one new first-year student, is intended to assist with room and board charges for two years, provided the student continues full-time enrollment at Penn State or Pennsylvania College of Technology, incurs on-campus room and board charges, and demonstrates academic success.
Phoenix McCafferty, a second-year biology major, has become the first student from the Penn State Beaver campus to be nominated for the highly competitive, national Goldwater Scholarship.
Penn State’s Environmental Health and Safety team will host virtual and in-person events for the University’s research and academic community as part of its Lab Safety Awareness Week initiative, Feb. 9-13.
Penn State Pathways will launch this spring to help undergraduates explore their change-of-campus opportunities and make confident decisions about the future of their education.
Penn State Beaver, Behrend and Greater Allegheny have expanded degree offerings in health care, engineering and technical fields to meet Pennsylvania workforce demand, with hands-on, industry-aligned programs. An opportunity to connect with campus representatives is scheduled for Feb. 18 at the Franco Harris Pittsburgh Center.
