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Simon Award Winner

Penn State has been named a recipient of the 2025 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, the highest recognition in the field of international education, awarded by NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

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    Penn State Global Power Facts

    Penn State is a world-class land-grant research institution, with over $1.3bn in research expenditures, serving 88,000 students across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Our Global land-grant mission impacts our communities, from local to global.

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    Simon Award Winner 2025

    Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization

    Fulbright Scholars

    Annual Top Producer of Fulbright Scholars (#2 in 2024-25)

    Ranked #2 in the U.S. for Sustainability

    Q.S. World Sustainability Rankings

    Ranked #4 in the U.S. for Global Impact

    Times Higher Education Impact Rankings

    Top 20

    Hosting International Students (9,000+)

    Top 20

    Sending Students Abroad (nearly 3,000)

    Top 40 Institutions for Innovation

    Institute for Scientific Information

    Two UNESCO Chairs

    One of only two (2) U.S. universities with multiple Chairs

    18 Penn State students earn Gilman Scholarship

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    A record-setting 18 Penn State students across four campuses were selected as recipients of the March 2025 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship (Gilman) Program scholarship.

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    UNESCO chair joins Penn State Global

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    Mark Brennan currently serves as UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education for Peace through Youth and Community Engagement. Recently, the chair has moved to now sit within Penn State Global.

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    Visit highlights empathy education with Galway, actor Cillian Murphy

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    Sabine Klahr, the interim vice provost for Penn State Global, attended the “Acting with Empathy” event in Dublin, alongside a Penn State delegation with representatives from across campus. (Photo Credit: Julien Behal).

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