Penn State student organizations and units at campuses across the commonwealth are presenting programming during National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Here’s a look at some of the events taking place at the University’s campuses during the month of April.
Six Penn State student startups with representation across three different campuses plus the Graduate School at Penn State have been selected into the 2022 Invent Penn State Summer Founders program. Each student team will receive a $15,000 grant to work full time on its startup, social good or nonprofit over the summer at Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank.
Six Penn State student startup teams have been selected as finalists in the Invent Penn State Inc.U Competition and are set to compete for $30,000 in funding on “The Investment,” a WPSU Shark Tank-like television production that will be livestreamed during Penn State Startup Week powered by PNC.
Two faculty members from Penn State Berks will receive funding to begin a project through Penn State’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction (CSUA)’s Community Fellows Program to develop and evaluate innovative techniques that will educate police officers about addiction and treatment issues to decrease stigma and increase access to substance use disorder treatment. Jennifer Murphy, associate professor of criminal justice at Penn State Berks, and Brenda L. Russell, professor of applied psychology also of Penn State Berks, are this year’s Community Fellows.
The LiveOn Student Success Grant provides need-based recipients at Penn State approximately $12,000 across four years to help bridge the cost of campus room and board.
Enrolled students who are noncompliant with the weekly required testing will lose access to Canvas until they become compliant. Continued noncompliance will result in additional disciplinary sanctions, up to and including conduct suspension upon the completion of a formal student conduct process.
The winning selections from Penn State University Libraries Short Stories’ “Through the Woods” fall 2021 contest have been announced, representing five Penn State campuses. Each of the four Editorial Board winners and the People’s Choice winner will receive a $100 Visa gift card. All winning entries, including nine honorable mentions, will be added to the Libraries’ Short Edition short-story dispensers
Working through the Penn State Corporate Engagement Center, Barnes & Noble College has awarded $165,000 in grants to support 11 initiatives across the University. The grants support a range of colleges, campuses and units to advance programs where Penn State and Banes & Noble share mutual interest.
When College of Education Dean Kimberly A. Lawless tells people, “We are changing education by educating for change,” she means it. More than words, this mantra has launched a new vision within the college to identify the needs in communities across the commonwealth and then work to meet them. This drive has led to the design of the Teacher-in-Residence Program, a pilot program nearing launch in the Reading School District.
