The Palmer Museum of Art will celebrate the public opening of its new state-of-the-art home in The Arboretum at Penn State on Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2. The opening weekend will kick off a summer full of fun programming for all ages at the reimagined, remixed and renewed Palmer Museum of Art.  ..read more

Nine Penn State students and alumni will travel abroad for the 2024–25 school year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Those interested in applying for the next cycle can register for an application preparation course that will run in Canvas throughout the summer.  ..read more

Penn State alumnus and Board of Trustees member Brandon Short and his wife Mahreen are honoring their late daughter Karli through the Karli Short Better Tomorrow Foundation. The foundation provides financial assistance through a scholarship for Penn State undergraduates grappling with the fallout of gun violence, and the Shorts are inviting other donors to support the fund.   ..read more

Gary Liguori, former provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of West Florida, will assume the role of chancellor and dean of Penn State Abington, effective July 1 ..read more

After more than two decades at another institution, David Mazyck received a phone call about an open position that would eventually bring him back to Penn State, his alma mater. He now leads the School of Engineering Design and Innovation (SEDI), shaping educational opportunities for students on the same career path that brought him here ..read more

As a critical step in its efforts to attain a sustainable financial operating model for its Commonwealth Campuses and position the university for a successful future, Penn State is offering eligible full-time faculty, staff and administrators employed at its Commonwealth Campuses the option to leave Penn State with a significant pay and benefits package ..read more

A Penn State research team was recently awarded a $4.99 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop and assess advanced separation technologies for the extraction and recovery of rare earth elements and other critical materials from coal, coal wastes and coal by-products ..read more

As part of an ongoing commitment to investing in faculty and staff, Penn State will be contributing more than $4.8 million toward faculty promotions in the fiscal year 2024-25 budget and $5.4 million in fiscal year 2025-26. Along with support for tenure-line promotions, the University will now also fund non-tenure-line faculty promotions at all campuses centrally starting in fiscal year 2024-25 — meaning these promotions and salary increases will not be funded out of individual college, institute or campus budgets ..read more

Penn State engineers Madhavan Swaminathan and Daniel Lopez explain in a Q&A the importance of advanced chip packaging to the U.S. semiconductor industry and how Penn State-led initiatives help turn innovations in the lab into reliable domestic production ..read more

Each year, immediately following spring commencement ceremonies, Penn State’s Office of Physical Plant begins its annual summer construction and renovation projects at the University Park campus. Project contractors will work to minimize disruptions to the campus community wherever possible ..read more