The Share Your Opioid Story Initiative, led by Glenn Sterner, assistant professor of criminal justice at Penn State Abington, has received the 2019 Penn State Award for Community Engagement and Scholarship.
As the Philadelphia region becomes increasingly diverse, Penn State Abington has entered into a partnership to provide a master of education degree in Teaching English as a Second Language to help area K-12 educators meet students' needs.
Penn State Abington student Kira Charles is a survivor, overcoming many obstacles, including coping with a disability and a near-fatal illness. The Penn State Abington junior wants to support others with disabilities by changing public policy.
A powerful lecture by attorney, author and human rights activist Bryan Stevenson moved some Penn State Abington students to tears and fired up others to initiate change in the world.
The lush greens and earthy tones transfixed the faculty and students who decamped to Ireland as part of a semester-long study of the creation of art in response to a place, in this case the Emerald Isle.
As Penn State University Libraries launches into its third University-wide Libraries Short Stories writing contest, previous Penn State authors’ winning works now have twice the potential to be printed and read across Pennsylvania, with the University Libraries’ installation of new Short Edition story dispensers at five of its Commonwealth Campus libraries.
