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Jim Shields 2024 Awards NK

Jim Shields, associate director of career services and professional programs at Penn State New Kensington and standing right, accepted the Service to Campus Award from Kevin Snider, chancellor at the campus. The award was given during the 2024 Academic and Student Achievement Awards ceremony.

Kevin Snider and Paula Dove

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Paula Dove, administrative assistant in the Penn State New Kensington Office of Student Affairs, is pictured right and accepted the Service to Students Award from Kevin Snider, chancellor of the campus. The award was presented during the 2024 Academic and Student Achievement Awards ceremony.

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Audrey Surma 2024 Walker Award Winner - New Kensington

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.

Student stands next to lion statue

Jacob Guerrini - 2024 Berger Scholarship Winner

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.

Student stands next to lion statue

Jacob Guerrini - 2024 Berger Scholarship Winner

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.

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2024 NK Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees

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.