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Fall 2025 dean's list announced

Interim Penn State Regional Chancellor Durell Johnson has announced that the following students at Penn State Scranton have made the dean’s list for the Fall 2025 semester.
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Penn State Scranton will be closed on Monday, Feb. 23 from 5 a.m. until 5 a.m. Tuesday, February 24 due to the winter storm. All classes, activity and work is cancelled. Essential personnel are to report as scheduled.

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Penn State Scranton will be closed on Monday, Feb. 23 from 5 a.m. until 5 a.m. Tuesday, February 24 due to the winter storm. All classes, activity and work is cancelled. Essential personnel are to report as scheduled.

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Pearl Gluck, the Penn State faculty member who serves as the Centre Film Festival’s artistic director and cofounder, helps drive the seven-year-old festival’s impact largely as a matchmaker — combining an educational and informational foundation with a collaborative, entertaining and fun approach during the weeklong festival.

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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.