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Applications being accepted for Noyce Scholarship

Applications for the Penn State Secondary Mathematics Noyce Scholarship Program must be submitted by Jan. 18, 2017. The competitive renewable scholarships will provide $19,000 per year for eligible students’ last two years of college.

Elite softball recruit commits to New Kensington campus

Opening day for Penn State New Kensington’s softball campaign is more than three months away, but the recruiting season is in full swing as head coach Mike Marsili landed his top recruit for the 2018 season. Scarlett Stein, a senior pitcher at Jeanette High School, has committed to attend the New Kensington campus.
Students at summit

PSNK students

Penn State New Kensington student leaders, left to right, Lynsie Headley, Lindsey Diss, Ashley Worlds, Shannon Josefoski, Chad Navarro and Jake Boney attended the American Student Government Association (ASGA) National Student Government Summit in the nation’s capital. 

Freshman students

PSNK students

Members of Penn State New Kensington’s Class of 2020 head to the next activity after posing for the traditional class photo under the campus’ iconic Arch during New Student Orientation. 

Inmates in Indiana stand in a common room to listen to a speaker.

Students forge a path for restorative justice

Five students from Penn State Beaver, Shenango and New Kensington are helping to implement Bridges to Life, a restorative justice program, in Beaver County. As the inaugural cohort of Beaver County-based facilitators, the students will not only go into the Beaver County Jail to work with inmates, but they will also be responsible for training future volunteers of the Bridges program and extending the reach of restorative justice.