By Christie Black Penn State Outreach and Online Education Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto is one of more than 330 mayors from across the United States who has pledged to continue to align their city with the goals of the Paris Agreement, despite the federal government’s announcement to back out. In advance of the mayor’s reveal…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – The first, and so far only, green infrastructure solution to flooding in Highland Park’s valleys is completed along Negley Run Boulevard — a 1,100-foot bioswale that will intercept an estimated 600,000 gallons of water running off pavement annually.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — More than 100 students and educators from western Pennsylvania schools will compete in the 2017 Pittsburgh Regional SeaPerch Competition from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, at California University of Pennsylvania. Penn State Center Pittsburgh, United States Navy City Outreach, and Navy Recruiting District Pittsburgh partnered to facilitate the regional contest.…
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Starting in fall 2017, Penn State will launch a new program for students who are interested in helping the cities of today support the world of tomorrow. Study Away Pittsburgh is a 15-credit resident program that provides students with an immersive urban experience while taking classes in person and online. It…
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Thomas Bartnik is the new director of the Penn State Center Pittsburgh. Bartnik, a certified urban planner and LEED accredited professional, has spent 25 years working in sustainable community development. Before joining the Penn State Center team, he was executive director of Pittsburgh Green Innovators and served as director of planning and…
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The pilot program for the Penn State Community Innovation for Youth (CITY), an initiative created to help at-risk students in the Pittsburgh area transition to adulthood by achieving academic success and financial independence, is underway. The first student cohort to participate in Penn State CITY includes juniors and seniors selected from…
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Scholarship, Sustainability and Civic Engagement Program, or SSCEP, is in its pilot year, and so far, it’s off to a great start. In 2014, a group of undergraduate students and faculty in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences developed a plan to get students working in community- and sustainability-related fields long before…
On September 2, 2015, years of planning came to fruition with the official opening of The Penn State Center Pittsburgh’s new office at the Energy Innovation Center. More than 250 guests, including local elected officials, Penn State leadership and community partners, celebrated the new location. The Penn State Center Pittsburgh, an office of Extension and…
An art installation, “The History of the Land Grant in Allegheny County” was unveiled at the September 2nd Open House at The Penn State Center Pittsburgh. Penn State is Pennsylvania’s only land grant institution and the permanent installation details University services in Allegheny County via the development of Extension in 1914 through the opening of…
“Broadly defined, food policy is a set of collective decisions made by governments at all levels, businesses, and organizations that affect how food gets from the farm to your table. A food policy can be as broad as a federal regulation on food labeling or as local and specific as a zoning law that lets…