Find more videos with expert answers to questions about the eclipse on the Eberly College of Science 2024 Solar Eclipse Information website, Facebook page or Instagram page.
The Eberly College of Science is partnering with the State College Spikes to host SolarFest on Monday, April 8. The event, to be held at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on the University Park campus, will feature a public eclipse viewing and science activities. Learn more about SolarFest.
Other planned eclipse-viewing events at Penn State campuses include:
- Penn State Altoona community viewing event, beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, April 8, outside of the campus' Slep Student Center.
- Penn State Behrend, which will be in the path of totality, will host a ticketed alumni and friends event as well as programming for invited K-12 students from surrounding communities and states. Public viewings of the eclipse will be available at various locations on campus as capacity allows. A talk by Darren Williams, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, will be livestreamed at noon.
- Penn State Wilkes-Barre solar eclipse viewing party, from 2 to 5 p.m. on Monday, April 8, at the campus' Nesbitt Academic Commons.
Student-run newscast "Centre County Report" will air a special edition at 3 p.m. Monday, April 8, providing coverage of the solar eclipse. One of the student teams from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications will be in Erie, Pennsylvania, which is the path of totality for the eclipse, and the other will report from SolarFest at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Read more about the "Centre County Report" eclipse coverage and find a link to the livestream here.