As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 18 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
Mo Paknejad, a member of the Penn State Brandywine Advisory Board and director of engineering at CTDI, spoke with Penn State students from Brandywine, Beaver and Hazleton about leadership, innovation and the human side of engineering on Feb. 26.
United States Army veteran and "Dancing with the Stars" alum Noah Galloway will give motivational speeches at the Penn State Beaver and Penn State Shenango campuses. The campuses and local communities are invited to attend his talk about resilience, leadership and personal accountability at 7 p.m. March 18 in the Penn State Beaver Auditorium and at 7 p.m. March 19 in the Penn State Shenango Auditorium. Both events are free.
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.
