Rick Brazier, senior associate dean for faculty and research in the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses, has been named interim dean of Penn State’s 14-campus University College.
The sixth annual Mont Alto LaunchBox LION Tank pitch competition will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 6. Interested entrepreneurs can apply to participate through March 13.
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.
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.
Penn State colleges, campuses and units can still apply for Second-Year Enrichment Grants. Provided by the University, the grants are intended to fund programs that will support current second-year students in transitioning to a full on-campus experience.
Bhante Sujatha has visited Penn State Mont Alto every year since 2010 -- including virtually in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic -- to talk with campus and local community members about daily life and meditation. Sujatha will meet with students and community members during his visit.
The Penn State Mont Alto, Harrisburg and York LaunchBoxes recently announced the three winning startups of their regional Idea TestLab pitch competition. The competition concludes a five-week-long virtual business idea accelerator that helped eight selected startups through coaching and training on identifying business models and customer discovery.
The "Race, Equity, and Action" program series at Penn State Mont Alto has helped to open doors of communication about difficult subjects such as how skin color can affect the way people are treated.