Each year, Penn State recognizes outstanding faculty and staff with annual awards in teaching and excellence. The invitation-only ceremony for the 2018 awards was Tuesday, April 3, at University Park.
Wendy Hanna-Rose, interim department head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the Eberly College of Science and Jyotsna (Josi) M. Kalavar, professor of human development and family studies at Penn State New Kensington; are the recipients of the 2018 Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Two Penn State New Kensington seniors are preparing their pitch as a finalist team in the upcoming Penn State Inc.U entrepreneurship competition. While learning some skills from the business realm has become important these past few months as they prepare, it has been their full-time major, electro-mechanical engineering technology, and the campus itself that has provided the foundation for their current and future success.
Shane Molyneau, sophomore centerfielder for New Kensington, and Jim Perry, coach of the Penn State New Kensington baseball team, help clear out a Florida home damaged by Hurricane Irma in Sept. 2017. Molyneaux and Perry were joined by other members of New Kensington's baseball team on March 8 to aid resident Dwight Popovic who had been living at a hotel since the storm. Work done by the team during their spring break trip made it possible for contactors to begin drywall work on the home.
Tyler Kline, junior pitcher from Penn State New Kensington, speaks to Dwight Popovic of Ft. Myers, Florida. Popovic's home was ravaged by Hurricane Irma in Sept. 2017. Kline and members of the New Kensington baseball team assisted Popovic in clearing debris from his home during their spring training trip so that contractors could begin drywall work.
