Latest News

Child Development Center

daycare 2

Human Development and Family Studies intern Amber Dixon reading to the children at the Child Development Center.

Daycare performance

daycare 1

Staff and children from the Child Development Center took part in the annual African American Read-In on campus. The children performed old folk songs collected by the Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston with Christina Black and her Music 241 students.

Penn State Behrend Chancellor Ralph Ford and the lion mascot

StandforState017

Penn State Behrend Chancellor Ralph Ford showed his support for the Stand for State campaign at the Jan. 27 launch. 

York Stand for State2

York Stand for State2

Kat Valero, left, a freshman from York; the Nittany Lion; and Eden Tesfay, a freshman from Lancaster; flexed their muscles during Penn State York's Stand for State launch on Jan. 28. 

Students with their hands covered in green paint

StandForState016

Seniors Katie Zambanini and Roger Salguero posed with the Nittany Lion after making their marks on the Stand for State banner at Penn State Berks' kickoff event Jan. 25.

A student prepares to leave a green handprint on a poster

StandForState015

Susan Dale, staff assistant for Academic Affairs at Penn State New Kensington, helped a student apply a green handprint in support of Stand for State at the Jan. 27 launch, part of the Volunteer and Human Rights Fair during the campus' Martin Luther King Unity Week. 

Students and staff talking in the Balloon Room

StandForState013

The Balloon Room created a space for students and staff to discuss bystander intervention Jan. 27 at University Park's Stand for State kickoff. 

A student painting a green dot on another student's hand

standforstate012

Student Madison Hileman painted a green dot on the hand of another student at Penn State Altoona's Stand for State launch Jan. 27.