600 Date: 5/15/2013 Altoona residents Stephen G. and Nancy L. Sheetz have made a leadership gift commitment to Penn State Altoona to create a Trustee Scholarship and scholarship endowment in support of the Sheetz Fellows program. The commitment is the couple’s second to the campus during For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students. Each year, in perpetuity, nearly 120 recipients of the Steve and Nancy Sheetz Trustee Scholarship will be awarded a minimum of $1,250 based on financial need. The second endowment, in support of the Sheetz Fellows program established by the couple in 2010, will generate funds enabling Penn State Altoona to provide $5,000 to each Sheetz Fellow in his or her senior year.]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID1218-8873-26991 Date: 5/14/2013 In honor of Lloyd Huck, the Huck Fellowships have been awarded to exceptional young scientist-scholars. This year marks the inaugural awarding of the J. Lloyd Huck Fellowship to four promising young students—Megan Kepler, Lucilla Pizzo Suarez, Sam Jones and Zhi Chai—who will arrive at University Park in the fall of 2013. Named in honor of Lloyd Huck, Penn State alumnus and philanthropist, the fellowship is made possible by his generous commitment to Penn State and the life sciences through the endowment and formation of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.]]> Tue, 14 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID1218-8872-26989 Date: 5/9/2013 Architectural engineering students hoping to study abroad may get some help realizing their dream, thanks to a gift by a Penn State engineering couple in Florida. A new scholarship, the Beabout the World Study Abroad Scholarship in Architectural Engineering, will provide recognition and financial assistance to undergraduate architectural engineering students studying at the University Park campus who are passionate about exploring and engaging with their world.]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID1218-8867-26977 Date: 5/9/2013 Two anonymous donors have made a $2.2 million gift to the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Department of Geosciences to create a faculty chair. The couple is remembering Penn State through a bequest that will leave a lasting legacy and support the department’s work in geochemistry. Both of these individuals hold doctorates and have an intimate understanding of the need for faculty support.]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID1218-8868-26983 Date: 5/7/2013 The Penn State Board of Trustees on May 3 approved the naming of a recently renovated facility at Penn State DuBois as the Alan R. Fairman House, in honor of a gift from the Fairman Family Foundation, which largely funded the restoration of the building.]]> Tue, 07 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID1218-8865-26964