Three Penn State Schuylkill students and one staff member traveled to Montreal, Quebec, from May 22 to 29 to participate in a campus-sponsored, international Habitat for Humanity Canada trip.
Matthew E. Stankiewitch has been named director of athletics at Penn State Schuylkill, effective June 27. Stankiewitch was a member of the Penn State football team from 2008 to 2012 and played in the NFL for the New England Patriots and Jacksonville Jaguars.
Students who are new to Penn State and all students living in University housing are reminded that they must submit their immunization records using myUHS through a new three-step process. As part of this process, students who do not submit their immunization records prior to Sept. 15 will be unable to register for spring 2017 classes.
This summer, selected students at Penn State’s Altoona and York campuses will have the opportunity to get a head start on their first or second years of college by taking summer classes through the Pathway to Success: Summer Start (PaSSS) pilot program. Now in its second year, the program supports students with unmet financial need by providing a scholarship, $400 book stipend, mentoring, social activities and on-campus employment.
Today (June 20) in the Capitol Rotunda, Penn State announced the awarding of six additional $50,000 seed grants to jump start entrepreneurial activities across the Commonwealth and celebrate its 13 newly launched entrepreneurship programs in Pennsylvania that are expected to spur economic development, job creation and student career success.