A ceremonial ribbon cutting with Penn State President Eric Barron marked the opening of the Happy Valley LaunchBox, a State College-based business startup program that is part of the statewide Invent Penn State initiative.
Alexia Hudson-Ward, associate librarian at Penn State Abington, has been named the Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio, effective July 1.
Penn State Abington senior Liz Janoski (front row, second from left) flew to California with her parents to film Wheel of Fortune College Road Trip. It was her first time on a plane.
Mary Elizabeth McCulloch, a Penn State bioengineering senior and co-founder of Project Vive, talks about a device she helped to create that makes communication possible for individuals with verbal speech challenges. Project Vive was selected as one of the inaugural cohorts to work at Happy Valley LaunchBox.
Dignitaries from Penn State and the State College borough officially open Happy Valley LaunchBox, which is designed to give area entrepreneurs free business startup training and space to work.