Earlier this month, empathy experts, youth representatives, youth-serving organizations and policy makers took part in a three-day summit on how empathy research can be translated into both government policy and into classrooms worldwide, as well as in non-formal, experiential learning environments.

Two members of the Penn State Smeal College of Business Ethics Case Team collaborated to sweep both categories of the 23rd Annual Undergraduate Collegiate Ethics Case Competition held in October at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

A Penn State faculty member was selected to serve on the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Ethics Committee and help review and possibly revise the SPJ Code of Ethics, the nation’s most-cited journalism ethics code, through an effort that coincides with the code’s 100th anniversary in 2026.

The Rock Ethics Institute and the Maurice K. Goddard Chair in Forestry and Environmental Resource Conservation are now accepting applications for the 2026–27 Faculty Fellows program. The program offers a one-course release from teaching during a single academic year to support Penn State faculty with ethics-related research projects.

Kathryn Kearney, a Penn State student majoring in criminology with an enhanced minor in communication arts and sciences, is using the skills gained through her liberal arts education to help the residents of Washington, D.C.

Penn State University Libraries will sponsor two speakers on open scholarship topics in conjunction with the second Penn State Open Scholarship Boot Camp, set for Aug. 13-15 on the University Park campus. Both presentations are free and open to the public.

Scholars from around the globe attended Penn State’s Consortium on Moral Decision-Making conference on political polarization and moral decision-making.

Maggie Day, a recent Spanish and education and public policy graduate, is the founder of the Reproductive Justice Project at Penn State.

Michelle Sikes of Penn State’s Department of Kinesiology draws on her own Rhodes Scholar experience to mentor top Penn State students in the final round of consideration for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

For the fifth year in a row, the Penn State Smeal College of Business Ethics Case Team brought a championship back to Happy Valley from the International Business Ethics Case Competition.