Donald Liddick, professor of criminal justice at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, published "Organized Crime, Public Corruption: Ernie Preate and the Pennsylvania Crime Commission," a book on the story and findings of the now-defunct Pennsylvania Crime Commission.
Leah Edgar, a first-year nursing student in the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing at Penn State University Park, is following in the footsteps of her mother, Wendy Edgar, a nursing professor at Penn State Fayette who inspired her love of all things Penn State and nursing.
Eight Penn State alumni selected by the Penn State Board of Trustees will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, which is the University's highest honor presented to its alumni.