Join college professors and student organizations at Penn State Shenango for its fourth annual Girl Scout event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 3 in the campus’s Great Hall located in Sharon Hall on Penn Avenue in downtown Sharon. All levels of Scouts (Junior, Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador) have two sessions to choose from, which will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Penn State Shenango Advising Office continues to look for ideas that support its mission of inclusion. This past summer, a colorful Instagram post shared by Student Orientation and Transition Programs at the University Park campus caught the attention of staff in the Advising Office and sparked their interest to pursue another new initiative, which they included as part of their PSU-8 Freshman Seminar course.
Penn State Shenango will collaborate with the Community Counseling Center of Mercer County to host two “Stamp Out Stigma” events Oct. 17 featuring Jamie Marich, founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness.
Penn State Shenango will hold its seventh annual Dr. Jane A. Williams Memorial 5K run/1.5 mile walk at 9 a.m. Oct. 6 at the Shenango campus in downtown Sharon. The event is in honor of Williams, who was employed at the Shenango campus for 25 years before passing away after a brief illness.
Penn State Shenango will continue its 2018-19 Lecture Series with a presentation by special guest and author Brad Ricca, who will talk about his most recent book Mrs. Sherlock Holmes—the shocking and amazing true story of Grace Humiston, lawyer, detective, and first woman U.S. District Attorney, who took on the well-known missing persons case of 18-year-old Ruth Cruger. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 26 in Lecture Hall 223/Art Gallery.
Do you have a history of addiction recovery and want to help others? Penn State Shenango will host “Certified Recovery Specialist Training,” a Penn State Beaver Continuing Education course, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays, beginning Oct. 6 and ending Dec. 15, in 108 Sharon Hall in downtown Sharon.
Members of the Penn State and local communities are invited to celebrate Constitution Day with on-campus events at University Park on Monday, Sept. 17, as well as activities at a number of Penn State campuses.
Andrea Hudson, founder and co-director of Cheer Image ICONZ, a community-based competitive recreational cheer program in Warren, Ohio, recently accepted the position of head cheerleading coach at Penn State Shenango.
John R. Garell, who taught mathematics at Penn State Shenango for 33 years, has recently continued his efforts in support of local students. Garell was one of the original six faculty members of the then-Penn State Shenango Valley campus, teaching mathematics, computer science and statistics, as well as running the Computer Lab from 1965 until his retirement in 1998. Through a gift of $30,000, he has created the John R. Garell Renaissance Scholarship at Penn State Shenango.
