
As of Fall 2014, Penn State will be the twelfth university in the U.S. with a doctoral program in African American Studies.

Amr Salah Elnashai, the head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will take over as Penn State’s new dean in the College of Engineering this January, Penn State announced today.

Senior Class Gift Committee members announced the HUB Green Roof Terrace project as the winner of the 2014 Senior Class Gift today, as voted on by members of the senior class.

Penn State is expecting to name a new president in a matter of weeks according to Keith Masser, Chairman of the Penn State Board of Trustees.
Masser updated the university's Faculty Senate Tuesday, telling the group he hopes to have a new president named by the November board of trustees meeting.

Penn State said yesterday in front of the State Senate that it should not be fully covered under Right-to-Know Law.