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Penn State Shenango announces spring 2024 dean’s list
May 15, 2024
Penn State Shenango Campus Director Jo Anne Carrick announced that 68 students have been named to the spring 2024 dean’s list. The dean’s list recognizes the students who were enrolled full time and earned a semester grade-point average of 3.5 or higher.
Forty-three undergraduates receive Erickson Discovery Grants
May 14, 2024
The Erickson Discovery Grant, which funds independent research projects for undergraduate students, has been awarded to 43 recipients this year.
22nd annual Golf Scramble to be held at Yankee Run Golf Course
May 13, 2024
The Shenango Alumni Society of the Penn State Alumni Association is hosting the 22nd annual Golf Scramble on Saturday, June 8, at Yankee Run Golf Course in Brookfield Township, Ohio.
In photos: Penn State celebrates graduates at ceremonies across Pennsylvania
May 06, 2024
Penn State campuses across Pennsylvania were sites of celebration and recognition May 3-5 as the University awarded more than 14,000 degrees during 2024 spring commencement ceremonies held statewide. Revisit the excitement of commencement with this gallery of photos from Penn State's Commonwealth Campuses.
Penn State Shenango celebrates spring 2024 commencement ceremony
May 06, 2024
Penn State Shenango celebrated the spring 2024 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 4, in the Auditorium.
Students in Effective Speech class organize fundraiser to benefit local charity
April 30, 2024
Students in Penn State Shenango's CAS 100B: Effective Speech class hosted a "Sports Jeopardy" event on campus to raise funds and baseball equipment for the Noah Geiwitz Legacy Foundation, a local non-profit with a personal connection to one student in the class.
Penn State Shenango celebrates new cybersecurity lab with ribbon-cutting event
April 24, 2024
Penn State Shenango held a ribbon-cutting celebration on April 23 to officially open its new Information Technology Cybersecurity Center in the Forker Lab building.
Shenango summer classes available for current, transfer, high school students
April 11, 2024
Penn State Shenango hosts in-person, hybrid, and online summer courses available to current Penn State students, transfers, and high school dual enrollment students.
Student well-being to be final Faculty Lecture Series topic of academic year
April 01, 2024
A cross-disciplinary group of Shenango faculty members present “Better Together: Working on Wellness In and Out of the Classroom” for the final Faculty Lecture Series presentation of the 2023-24 academic year.
Shenango basketball fundraiser tips off in honor of longtime Hickory employee
March 15, 2024
The 2024 Shenango vs. Cancer basketball fundraiser event is being held Friday, March 22, at 5:30 p.m. in the Hickory High School Gymnasium.
Liberia’s Poet Laureate, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, to present at Shenango
March 11, 2024
Patricia Wesley, the inaugural Poet Laureate for the Republic of Liberia and professor of English at Penn State Altoona, will present at Penn State Shenango at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 21.
New collaboration expands educational opportunities in Pennsylvania
March 06, 2024
Penn State’s Commonwealth Campuses and the state’s community colleges have announced a new collaboration aimed at expanding educational opportunities in Pennsylvania and removing barriers to degree completion among college students. The collaboration builds upon long-standing relationships between the campuses and the community colleges and a shared commitment to access and affordability in higher education.
Shenango professor earns national recognition as PTA education award recipient
March 04, 2024
Penn State Shenango Teaching Professor in the Physical Therapist Assistant program Jennifer Jewell has been named the 2024 Distinguished Educator in Physical Therapist Assistant Education Award recipient, the highest recognition that a faculty member in physical therapist assistant education can receive, at a ceremony held in Boston on Feb. 16.
Award winning poet and author Quartez Harris to speak at Penn State Shenango
February 14, 2024
Penn State Shenango hosts author and poet Quartez Harris on campus on Monday, Feb. 26. Harris will present a collection of poems from his publication, titled "We Made It To School Alive."
Shenango communications faculty presents AI research at national conference
February 08, 2024
Penn State Shenango Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication Tiffany Petricini presented her research on artificial intelligence at the National Communication Association Convention in Washington D.C.
Atterholt and Cruz to present ‘academic witnessing’ research at Feb. 12 webinar
February 07, 2024
Penn State Shenango's Roxanne Atterholt and Laura Cruz from Penn State’s Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence will present their work on how to encourage and support resiliency in higher education at a webinar on Feb. 12. They co-authored a paper, titled “Shock Waves: Academic Witnessing as Resiliency Practice in Higher Education,” on the topic that was published as feature article in the Journal of Faculty Development.