Jennifer Osetek participated in an event that set the record for most people learning hands-only CPR in an hour.
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The entire Penn State community is invited to the World Campus “A Homecoming Celebration of 40,000 Penn State Stories,” on September 24, 2026.
Dr. Robert Nelson enrolled in a Penn State graduate program while serving full-time in the Army. What followed — for him, and for thousands of soldiers — was extraordinary.
Adults from almost 300 Pennsylvania communities earned Penn State degrees online in engineering, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, behavioral health, education, and more.
The peer guide program offered through the Roz and Gene Chaiken Center for Student Success at Penn State World Campus connects experienced online learners with students navigating studies online for the first time.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State alma mater, written by Professor Fred Lewis Pattee, was first performed in June 1901 during the Commencement Week alumni dinner at the Pennsylvania State College — the institution’s name at the time. After it was sung, Governor James Beaver, president of the Board of Trustees, stood and proclaimed…
Joe Thompson IV has applied what he learned through his Penn State education to climate action across two states and three continents.
Krysta Ermine has been programming daily for nearly five years and says she is still learning every day.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Amelia Old’s path is shaped by the world around her. A curiosity to learn and a willingness to repeatedly step outside her comfort zone, she said, have taken her across the globe. An award-winning travel journalist who has decades of experience working in the media industry, Old has worked as a…
A master’s degree in geographic information systems (MGIS) from Penn State helped shape the trajectory of Jimmy Kroon’s career. Kroon joined the Delaware Department of Agriculture in 2003 as a summer employee doing fieldwork and building expertise in GIS through field crop surveys for pests and plant diseases. He enrolled in Penn State’s online MGIS…