Graduates scan the crowd to find their families during the recessional following the Penn State Shenango commencement ceremony held on Saturday, May 4, 2024.
Penn State campuses across Pennsylvania were sites of celebration and recognition May 3-5 as the University awarded more than 14,000 degrees during 2024 spring commencement ceremonies held statewide. Revisit the excitement of commencement with this gallery of photos from Penn State's Commonwealth Campuses.
Graduates and friends smile as they take photos and review them after the spring 2024 commencement ceremony at Penn State New Kensington on Saturday, May 4. A full photo gallery of graduate portraits and other photos from the day will be viewable on the campus' Facebook page.
Pictured from left to right is Robert "Bob" Howard, 2024 Penn State New Kensington Athletics Hall of Fame inductee; Renee Brown-Antonelli, athletic director at the campus; Arlene Hall, former director of academic affairs at the New Kensington campus and former interim chancellor of Penn State Fayette, the Eberly Campus; and John M. DeRiggi, 2024 Penn State New Kensington Athletics Hall of Fame inductee. Howard and DeRiggi were named as inductees to the New Kensington Athletics Hall of Fame's Class of 2024 during the annual athletics banquet on April 17.
Jacob Guerrini, a junior electro-mechanical engineering technology student at Penn State New Kensington, stands next to the campus' lion shrine. Guerrini was named the 2024 Frederick Berger Scholarship winner through the Tau Alpha Pi honors society.
Jacob Guerrini, a junior electro-mechanical engineering technology student at Penn State New Kensington, stands next to the campus' lion shrine. Guerrini was named the 2024 Frederick Berger Scholarship winner through the Tau Alpha Pi honors society.
Jacob Guerrini, a junior electro-mechanical engineering technology student at the New Kensington campus, was named the 2024 Berger Scholarship recipient.
Audrey Surma, a senior communications student at Penn State New Kensington, is pictured right standing next to Kevin Snider, chancellor of the campus, at the 2024 Academic and Student Achievement Awards ceremony on April 26, 2024. Surma was awarded the Eric A. and Josephine S. Walker Award, which is presented to a student whose outstanding qualities of character, scholarship, leadership, and citizenship have been directed into programs and services that have positively influenced fellow students and have contributed to the prestige and well-being of the campus and University.
