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The Penn State Presidential Leadership Academy (PLA) is a prestigious and competitive program that offers curricular and extracurricular opportunities for high-achieving students. Freshmen are invited to apply through a rigorous application process, which includes having a 3.2 GPA and submitting two essays and two letters of recommendation. Only 30 students are accepted each year. These […]
The Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC) held its first urban deer conflict management seminar in Harrisburg, PA on March 25, 2019. Laura Simon, an Urban Wildlife Consultant, and John Griffin, Senior Director of Urban Wildlife Programs at The Humane Society of the United States, presented on strategies to mitigate human-deer conflict and provided […]
On March 22, 2019, the Botstiber Scholar Juniors participated in a workshop on design thinking run by Lee Erickson at Happy Valley Launchbox. Design thinking is used to develop new products and think more creatively about a problem, in order to perhaps initiate an entrepreneurial venture. During the workshop, the four scholars were asked to […]
Botstiber Scholar Emmy Muhoza attended the Society for Mining, Metallurgical, and Exploration (SME) Conference from February 24-27, 2019, in Denver, Colorado, with Penn State’s SME Student Chapter. The conference is a forum “for more than 6,000 industry professionals from across the world to share innovative ideas, best practices and cutting-edge research in more than 120 […]
Each month, Penn State’s Sponsored Relations and the Sponsored Student Leadership Panel (SSLP) hold a social event for sponsored students to get together and enjoy diverse activities that allow them to interact with people they may not see on a daily or weekly basis. For January 2019, the social was held at Pegula Ice Arena, […]
On January 12, 2019, the Botstiber Scholars traveled to Harrisburg to visit the Pennsylvania Farm Show. The Farm Show is the largest agricultural event in Pennsylvania, as well as the “largest indoor agricultural exposition under one roof in the nation,” according to the event’s website. The scholars saw a variety of breeds of horses, sheep, […]
In an effort to promote and advance alternative methods to manage free-roaming horse and burro populations in western landscapes, the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC) hosted the Free‐Roaming Horse and Burro Fertility Control Workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico on November 8, 2018. To learn more, visit the BIWFC website or read the BIWFC […]
The Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC) hosted a State of the Field Webinar on October 23, 2018, which provided an overview of major advances in the field of wildlife fertility control over the last 10 years. Presenter Stephanie Boyles Griffin, BIWFC Science and Policy Director, explored the challenges that remain and ongoing efforts […]
The Botstiber Foundation hosted their annual Botstiber Scholars Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These conferences serve as a fun and educational way for the scholars to build collegiality as a group, as they get to know the Foundation and explore a new city. This year, during the retreat, the scholars from the junior and sophomore cohorts […]
Botstiber Foundation representatives visited the Providence Animal Center in Media, Pennsylvania, to observe the construction of the new Botstiber Pavilion. The Botstiber Pavilion is the result of a $500,000 grant given to the Providence Animal Center by the Botstiber Foundation in April 2017. With the new pavilion, the Providence Animal Center has a more efficient […]