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September 2, 2020

Couple further expands support with educational equity scholarships

March 10, 2020

With the goal of opening doors for young people in the county where they grew up and inspiring others to support 4-H in their own communities, Baker and Conrad made a gift covering the membership fees for all youth who wanted to participate in 4-H in Juniata County this year.

January 31, 2020

Continuing a tradition of support for and commitment to students, the College of Agricultural Sciences Alumni Society at Penn State has created the College of Agricultural Sciences Alumni Society First-Year Scholarship.

January 15, 2020

By the time he was 10 years old, Dave Mattocks (’90, Agriculture) knew he wanted to be a dairy farmer. A little over a decade later with a college degree in hand, Mattocks made his dream come true and became a full-time dairyman on the farm that had been in the family for generations.

December 31, 2019

The Department of Animal Science in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences received a $10,000 student recruiting grant from the U.S. Poultry & Egg Harold E. Ford Foundation (USPOULTRY Foundation).

November 19, 2019

Donors hope endowed scholarship elicits students' best efforts

August 28, 2019

For many students, regardless of their field of study, there is a class or subject they are nervous to take. Sometimes, however, it is in those classes that a student finds an inspirational teacher—a teacher who makes learning what may be a difficult subject a joy to learn.

August 28, 2019

A family commitment to philanthropy, a career-long dedication to the food industry, and a deeply rooted connection to Penn State serve as inspiration for a newly created graduate fellowship in the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences.

August 28, 2019

For some, the desire to give back is ingrained in them from a young age. For others, it comes after experiencing the benefit of philanthropy themselves. And yet for others, it is simply something they feel called to do.

June 7, 2019

The inspiration behind a person's philanthropy can come from a variety of sources. For alumnus Dr. Roger Simon, it stems from two places: the Penn State Department of Entomology and his father, Sam Simon.

November 29, 2018

Colleagues, former students, friends, and family members created endowments to honor the memories of two ag sciences professors, Harold "Doc" Harpster and Dr. Arun Kilara.

November 28, 2018

Virginia Tech alumni Bill and Catherine Achor recently established the J. Richard and Deborah S. Roenigk Family Scholarship in Agricultural and Extension Education in the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences.

November 7, 2018

Dennis Hall and Sandra Parker Hall recently added $50,000 to The Sandra L. Parker and Dennis K. Hall Education Program Support to the Children’s Garden.

October 5, 2018

An anonymous donor has created the “Penn State Extension Graduate Scholarship in Honor of Dr. John S. Shenk and Dr. J.D. Harrington,” recognizing two professors the donor credits with being sources of inspiration as he pursued two degrees at Penn State.

October 4, 2018

To honor Dan Stearns, J. Franklin Styer Professor Emeritus, and enhance the Landscape Contracting Program in the College of Agricultural Sciences, Daniel Eichenlaub and his wife, Barbara, have established the Dan T. Stearns Landscape Contracting Program Endowment, which will provide funds for student enrichment activities.

October 3, 2018

Ag sciences alumnus and Penn State Trustee Keith E. Masser and his wife, Helen E. Masser, signed documents to create a professorship in the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences and a scholarship in the Penn State College of Medicine.

September 25, 2018

Richard "Dick" Booth, a 1959 agriculture alumnus, has created a charitable gift annuity to support his alma mater.

August 3, 2018

A gift from 1979 Ag Sciences alumna Diane Cressman Blanton is funding a five-month art installation at The Arboretum at Penn State.

June 12, 2018

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held today (June 8) to mark the official opening of Penn State’s rebuilt and renovated Agricultural Engineering Building, which houses the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) in the College of Agricultural Sciences.

May 30, 2018

Penn State's Equine Science Program recently received "Red, White N Good,” a quarter-horse stallion valued at $130,000, from Craig and Becky Bailey, of Bailey Farm in Ohio.

April 25, 2018

To honor Anna Griswold, retired assistant vice president for undergraduate education and executive director for student aid, business alum Tom Sharbaugh and his wife, Kristin Hayes, created the Anna M. Griswold Open Doors Scholarship in the College of Agricultural Sciences.

April 16, 2018

After Dean Rick Roush endowed the Rick Roush and Robyn Krause-Hale Open Doors Scholarship in the College of Agricultural Sciences, several other faculty and staff members followed suit.

April 6, 2018

Agricultural Sciences alumnus John Graham '64, '65, and his wife, Carol, a retired music teacher, decided it was time to "pay back the University for giving me such a great start in life."