The Administrative Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year are Melissa Doberstein, program director, Presidential Leadership Academy, Schreyer Honors College; Scarlett Miller, professor of engineering design and industrial engineering, College of Engineering; and Juliet Pinto, associate professor, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. The Administrative Fellows Program offers Penn State faculty and staff the opportunity to work with senior University officers to gain knowledge and experiences pertaining to leadership in the academic community.
From podcasts to blogs, members of Penn State’s Presidential Leadership Academy have come up with many creative ways to inform the public about today’s society.
Elizabeth Nyamayaro, award-winning humanitarian and United Nations Special Advisor for the World Food Programme, will give a free lecture, "Be True to Yourself: Your Story Matters," at 7 p.m. on Jan. 23 at the State Theatre in downtown State College. Her lecture is part of the Mark Luchinsky Memorial Lecture series.
Plenty of professors become administrators overnight with an unexpected offer. Here’s how to prepare for “the call” and make it more likely that you will be tapped.
Edward Spagnuolo, who recently graduated from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences with a bachelor's degree in geobiology, has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
In this final part of a three-part Q&A with Penn State President Eric J. Barron, Barron talks about his decision to retire, the challenge of leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea for a new and expanded Palmer Museum of Art, the Musser Gap to Valleylands effort and what his students have taught him over the years.