Penn State Abington Alternative Spring Break teams traveled to Washington, D.C., and a small town in West Virginia for service learning. The issues they faced included sustainability, hunger and homelessness.
Movie fans gathered for the Oscars at Penn State Abington ahead of Sunday night's Academy Awards. They talked about the nominees and then vote electronically for their favorites. Find out how Abington's predictions held up against the actual winners.
A decade of No Place for Hate programming leads Penn State Abington students to expand their fight for tolerance beyond racial and ethnic bias to include challenges such as eating disorders, hunger and homelessness.
Veteran activist Opal Tometi, co-founder of #Black Lives Matter, urged Penn State Abington students to become "collaborators for justice" during a daylong roving discussion last week.
The Penn State Abington community permanently honored prominent American and African-American architect Julian Abele who earned little recognition during his lifetime but whose work impacts the campus to this day. He designed the iconic Sutherland Building, which houses classrooms and offices.
Damian Fernandez, CEO and head of school at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City, has been named chancellor of Penn State Abington, effective July 1, 2016. Fernandez will succeed Karen Wiley Sandler, who announced her intention to retire as chancellor of the Abington campus in June after more than 20 years of service to Penn State. Sandler will remain as chancellor until June 30, 2016.
Strained relationships with law enforcement in many communities nationwide led a group of proactive Penn State Abington students to invite local police to campus so they could open a dialogue. They discussed race, traffic stops, and recent police controversies.
Penn State Abington students gathered for a forum to process the trauma of recent world events: bombings in Beirut and Paris, the immigrant crisis, ISIS, Syria, and politicians espousing sometimes inaccurate stereotypes of religious and ethnic groups.
Nineteen Penn State alumni will be honored Oct. 21 for their outstanding professional accomplishments and given the lifelong title of Alumni Fellow, the highest award given by the Penn State Alumni Association.
