Penn State Beaver held its spring commencement Friday, May 4 in the Student Union Building auditorium. Fifty-eight students received master's, baccalaureate, and associate degrees. The academic processional and recessional and convention of proceedings were led by Daniel W. Smith, instructor in business. Donna J. Kuga, director of academic affairs, presented the degrees, which were conferred by Chancellor Gary B. Keefer in conjunction with John Feraco, president of the Penn State Beaver Advisory Board and manufacturing leader for NOVA Chemicals, Inc. Keefer also introduced the commencement speaker, Julian Gray, certified elder law attorney. (more)
Celebrating the Class of 2012, the Honorable Thomas I. Vanaskie, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and member of the Dickinson School of Law Class of 1978, addressed the graduates and hundreds of their friends and family members at Penn State Law's commencement on May 12. (more)
Families, friends, classmates, and colleagues of Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus gathered on Saturday, May 5, for the 42nd annual Commencement ceremony. (more)
Before a crowd of more than a thousand engineering seniors, Robert D. Braun, the David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology and director of the Space Systems Design Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology, exhorted the class of 2012 to change the world through innovation. (more)
This spring, Penn State awarded about 13,000 diplomas to students University-wide who completed associate, baccalaureate, master's, medical, law and doctoral degrees. Commencement ceremonies for these graduates were held at Penn State campuses throughout Pennsylvania. To see photos from this weekend's graduation ceremonies, visit http://live.psu.edu/flickrset/72157629989412357 online.
Penn State York will celebrate its 42nd annual spring commencement at 6 p.m. Friday, May 4, in the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center (The Pullo Center) on campus. The ceremony is free and open to the public. This will be the first spring commencement for Lisa Plowfield, chancellor of Penn State York, since she took the helm at the campus in August 2011. (more)
Degrees will be conferred on 1,009 students at the Penn State College of Engineering's spring commencement ceremony on May 4 at 8 p.m. at the Bryce Jordan Center. Delivering this year's commencement address is Robert D. Braun, the David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology and director of the Space Systems Design Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. (more)
Penn State Lehigh Valley will hold its annual commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 5, at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa. The campus will award associate and bachelor's degrees to roughly 60 local students. The featured speaker for the event is Brad Meltzer, a best-selling author and researcher on the History Channel series Brad Meltzer's "Decoded." Meltzer will sign copies of his books during the reception immediately following the commencement ceremony. (more)
Senior Vick Arslanian immigrated from Achrafieh in Beirut, Lebanon to the United States in the summer of 2002. Having learned to read and write English at an early age, one would think the move was fairly easy. It wasn't. Arslanian remembers how difficult it was to adjust to his new life. (more)
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will speak at a commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. on May 5, at the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus. A distinguished scientist and Nobel Laureate, Chu will address about 500 new Penn State alumni, including graduates of the University's Eberly College of Science. At the ceremony, Penn State President Rodney Erickson will present Chu with an honorary doctor of science degree from Penn State. (more)
