by Mark Golaszewski | Sep 24, 2025 | Feature: Homepage, General, Impact Story, We Are
Fostering Hope Penn State’s Fostering Lions Program was founded in 2018 to improve postsecondary education outcomes for students entering Penn State from the foster care system and for homeless youth involved with Children and Youth Services. The program was recently...
by Mark Golaszewski | May 28, 2025 | General, Impact Story, We Are
A Compass for the Journey 3 Judi and Allen Weltmann can recount learning setbacks that unfolded within their own family. A daughter who was diagnosed with a learning difference while in college. A granddaughter who tied her self-worth to the quality of her...
by Mark Golaszewski | Sep 16, 2024 | General, Impact Story
Faces of Philanthropy More than forty years ago, Vice Provost for Online Education at Penn State Renata Engel was a first-year undergraduate student at Penn State Fayette. Without the means to complete an internship or study abroad, Renata credits a research...
by Lesley Quesada | May 7, 2024 | General, Impact Story, We Are
Growing Together: Then and Now In 1914, Penn State set aside land with the intent to one day create an arboretum, where the Commonwealth’s remarkable diversity of tree species and other flora could be studied and celebrated. Nearly 100 years later, a $10 million gift...
by Lesley Quesada | Aug 15, 2023 | General, Impact Story, We Are
An Unrivaled Collection A Chambersburg area native, John Miner found his way into the University community as an avid sports fan—and into Penn State history as a prolific collector. John Miner never earned a Penn State degree; in fact, he never earned a college degree...
by Mark Golaszewski | May 2, 2023 | General, Impact Story, We Are
Faces of Philanthropy: Talia Walton ’27 3 Faces of Philanthropy: Talia Walton ’27 Talia Walton ’27 grew up in Maryland—out of state, but not out of touch with the power of the University community. As a first-year student in the fall of 2022, she found...
