CollegeSPRING/SUMMER 2019 Place YOUR CONNECTION TO PENN STATE DUBOIS Photo Credit: Craig Moyer, The Courier Express Baseball team takes second WORLD SERIES WIN The Penn State DuBois baseball team celebrating their second consecutive Small College World Series Title at Showers Field. PAGE 46 Father and Son IST grad Wildlife Share Graduation launches students at Penn State career with contribute to DuBois Lockheed elk research PAGE 8 Martin PAGE 22 PAGE 20 HIGHLIGHTS Contents 18 32 46 37 College Place is Jean Wolf DEPARTMENTS produced by the Public Director of Development Information office at Phone: 814-372-3038 Penn State DuBois E-mail: [email protected] and Penn State Julie Frank 1 A Message from the Chancellor Multimedia & Print Development and Center, University Park. 2 Campus Alumni Specialist 18 Learning For more information Phone: 814-375-4775 about the newsletter or E-mail: [email protected] 32 Outreach to comment on articles Steve Harmic or photos published 37 Alumni Public Information Officer herein, please contact: Phone: 814-375-4776 42 Faculty/Staff Office of Public E-mail: [email protected] 46 Athletics Information Penn State DuBois 1 College Place COVER DuBois, Pennsylvania The Penn State DuBois Baseball Team celebrating 15801 their second consecutive Small College World Series Title at Showers Field. Read more on page 46. BACK COVER The Penn State School of Music Graduate School Brass Quintet performing at commencement. Special thanks to John Brennan for photography contributions. This publication is available in alternative media on request. The University is committed to equal access to programs, facilities, admission and employment for all persons. It is the policy of the University to maintain an environment free of harassment and free of discrimination against any person because of age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, service in the uniformed services (as defned in state and federal law), veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, marital or family status, pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, physical or mental disability, gender, perceived gender, gender identity, genetic information or political ideas. Discriminatory conduct and harassment, as well as sexual misconduct and relationship violence, violates the dignity of individuals, impedes the realization of the University’s educational mission, and will not be tolerated. Direct all inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policy to the Affrmative Action Offce, The Pennsylvania State University, 328 Boucke Building, University Park, PA 16802- 5901, Email: [email protected], Tel (814) 863-0471. U.Ed. DSO 20-0001 MPC153821 A Message from the Chancellor Left to right, Chancellor M. Scott McBride visits with scholarship donors George Heigel and Mark Freemer at the annual Scholarship Luncheon. GREETINGS FROM COLLEGE PLACE ! Another exciting academic year has come to a close, Our first Benefit Celebration, featuring entertainment from and I’m proud to say that the accomplishments of Leonard, Coleman and Blunt, the former lead singers of the Temptations, the Platters, and the Drifters, was a great our students, faculty, and staff keep getting more success! This year, we are looking to follow that up on impressive. (One of the accomplishments you’ll October 12 with another celebration featuring the music of read about in this issue of College Place includes Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., past winner of NBC’s America’s our baseball team taking their second consecutive Got Talent. Landau brings with him a full big band that will faithfully recreate favorites from the great American Small College World Series Championship!) You’ll song book, including those performed and recorded by also see stories of incredible career achievement by Frank Sinatra, and others. our graduates, as well as academic success by our The year ahead looks to be as exciting as this past year has current students, and stories of service where our been. Thank you for being a part of our campus community impact on communities is making life better, both as we look forward to so many good things to come! close to home and miles away. Another way we are reaching out to our communities is through our new North Central PA LaunchBox initiative. We have exciting updates on that front, as we continue to establish this center for entrepreneurship and innovation. In addition, we are happy once again to bring our M. Scott McBride, Ph.D. community together for our Annual Benefit Celebration. Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer PENN STATE DUBOIS 1 Campus 2 SPRING / SUMMER 2019 Campus STUDY: PENN STATE DUBOIS CONTRIBUTES $25.9 MILLION TO PA ECONOMY Penn State DuBois contributed $25.9 million to the The study employed a best-practice model, endorsed by Pennsylvania economy in FY 2017, and supported, the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and the American Association of Universities (AAU), to directly and indirectly, 347 Pennsylvania jobs. A new measure Penn State’s annual contribution to Pennsylvania’s study released Feb. 26 by Penn State focused on economy. The study focused on quantifying the direct and measuring the University’s impact in communities extended impact of the University’s spending on goods across the Commonwealth. and services in Pennsylvania, employee pay and benefits, spending on renovations and new facilities, student spending, and operations expenditures for Penn State Overall, the study found that Penn State is an economic Health. It also found that Penn State’s 24-campus locations powerhouse, contributing more than $11.6 billion to the spread the University’s economic contributions into state’s economy. More than 102,000 Pennsylvania jobs can communities in all corners of Pennsylvania, in a way that is be attributed to Penn State on the whole, the study found; unmatched by any other university in the Commonwealth. and for every $1 in state appropriations received by Penn State, the University returns $1.24 in tax payments to the Commonwealth. “We are proud to share the results of this study, which clearly illustrates the positive impact Penn State DuBois has on our local communities, and across Pennsylvania,” said Penn State DuBois Chancellor M. Scott McBride. “Our campus plays an integral role in Penn State’s land-grant mission, not only in providing a world-class education for students, but also through our ongoing commitment to community, economic and workforce development. We support innovation and manufacturing competitiveness, grow and attract talented entrepreneurs and innovators, and partner with regional stakeholders to create the new high-knowledge, high-technology businesses through our OTHER MEASURES OF PENN STATE’S LaunchBox initiative.” CONTRIBUTIONS The study provides an important view of Penn State’s “By any measure, Penn State is a powerful economic contributions by certain measures. McBride also engine for Pennsylvania, contributing billions of dollars highlighted that there are many other ways in which Penn each year to the economy in communities across the State DuBois generates economic activity in North Central Commonwealth, educating more than 98,000 students Pennsylvania and benefits students, families and residents. annually, and creating many thousands of jobs,” said Penn State President Eric J. Barron. “This study highlights the Examples of these secondary benefits to Pennsylvania are widespread nature of Penn State’s economic contributions. numerous. Our University, with 24 locations across the Commonwealth, an academic medical center and a growing health system, Beyond the $25.9 million in total economic contributions is an engine that drives the economy and improves lives in measured by the study, additional, secondary impacts of all 67 Pennsylvania counties.” Penn State DuBois’ presence in the region not measured continued on page 7 PENN STATE DUBOIS 3 Campus Joyce Fairman congratulated 2019 graduates during her commencement address on Friday evening at Penn State DuBois. GRADUATES CELEBRATED AT PENN STATE DUBOIS COMMENCEMENT Members of the Penn State DuBois class of 2019 board, the DuBois Educational Foundation, and co-chairs officially joined the Penn State alumni community the campus’ current capital campaign, A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence. With her support, in on Friday evening, May 3, as commencement 2013 the Fairman Family Foundation largely funded ceremonies were celebrated in the campus the renovation of the Alan R. Fairman House at Penn gymnasium. Chancellor M. Scott McBride State DuBois, named in honor of Joyce’s late husband, presided over the ceremonies, with Professor giving the former residential home new life as a center for the campus Honors Scholars Program. The Fairman Arshad Khan serving as faculty marshal. Special Family Foundation also has sponsored the Best Robotics guest speaker Joyce Fairman provided the competition for middle and high school students, which commencement address. Music for the ceremony is held on campus each fall, and established the Fairman was provided by the Penn State School of Music Family Trustee Scholarship at Penn State DuBois. Graduate Brass Quintet. Academic achievement With her high level of involvement at Penn State DuBois, awards were presented to Makayla Whaling, Fairman knows well the challenges students can face while for associate degrees, and to Kyle Bear, for earning a degree. baccalaureate degrees. “I would like to congratulate all of you on an extraordinary accomplishment,” Fairman told the graduates during her Fairman, a philanthropist, businesswoman