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Neumann, Petko earn Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award 

Beth Neumann, administrative assistant for Penn State’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, and Jessica Petko, associate professor of biology and science at Penn State York, are the recipients of the 2026 Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award. 
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Penn State Laureate plans to explore commonwealth through a documentary lens

As the 2025-26 Penn State Laureate, filmmaker and associate professor Pearl Gluck is traveling across the commonwealth to share her films and examine how storytelling lives within communities — not only in places, but through the people who care for them: archivists, artists, educators, librarians, museum guides and local historians who serve as keepers of cultural memory.