Penn State President Eric J. Barron spoke to a crowd of nearly 250 people at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Lehigh Valley campus' $14.4 million expansion project. The event was held March 4 at Penn State Lehigh Valley.
The proposed three-story addition to the current campus building at Penn State will include a new dining facility on the first floor, student service spaces on the second floor and a STEM wing on the third floor, including an organic chemistry lab.
Rich Fatzinger, PSU-LV athletic director, and Bruce Haines, managing partner of the Historic Hotel Bethlehem and PSU-LV advisory board member, have joined forces to endow an Open Doors Scholarship in support of Penn State Lehigh Valley students
Raymond Ghelardi and his wife Ellen, of Fort Myers, Florida, have provided the gift to create the Ghelardi Family Open Doors Scholarship for Penn State students enrolled at the Lehigh Valley campus.
Hannah Selassie, a junior marketing major at PSU-LV, expressed her gratitude to donors in her message written at the 2018 Scholarship Dinner held Oct. 9.
