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The Penn State University Press, also known as The Pennsylvania State University Press, is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals.Established in 1956, it is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system.
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, [13] Penn State was named the state's first land-grant university eight years later, in 1863.
Penn State Abington is a commonwealth campus of the Pennsylvania State University located in Abington, Pennsylvania. The campus is set on 45 acres (180,000 m 2 ) of wooded land. The roughly 4000 undergraduate students (full-time and part-time students combined) are taught by a full-time staff of over 150 professors and teaching assistants.
Joe Gow (born 1960) (attended West Chester University before transferring to New York University and later to Penn State University, from which he graduated), American academic, musician, pornographic actor, and university administrator, noted for being fired as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse in December 2023 after being ...
After his two-year stay at Penn State, he was re-elected to the Girard College Presidency, and then to be the president of the American Bible Society. Allen Street in State College, Pennsylvania and Allen Road on the Penn State University Park campus are named in his honor. 3: John Fraser (c. 1823–1878) [6] [7] 1866 – 1868 (2 years)
The university has turned to philanthropy to replace state funding, with 2003 marking the end of the Grand Destiny campaign – a 7-year effort which raised over $1.3 billion for the University. [8] In 2004, Penn State started celebrating its 150th anniversary, since 2005 marks the University's sesquicentennial.
Neeli Bendapudi is an Indian-American academic administrator who is the 19th president of Pennsylvania State University. [1] From 2018 until 2021, she served as the 18th president of the University of Louisville. [2] In December 2021, Penn State announced Bendapudi as the university's president; she succeeded Eric J. Barron following his ...
The film-video program, originating in the College of Arts and Architecture, and the media studies program, previously a communications studies major housed in the College of Liberal Arts, were both introduced at Penn State in the 1960s. The telecommunications major was born in the College of Liberal Arts, dating back to the mid-1970s.