Pennsylvania State University - Division of Undergraduate Studies

Penn State has more than 466,000 living alumni

One in every 720 Americans, and one in every 70 Pennsylvanians, is a graduate of Penn State

Penn State was established in 1855 as Pennsylvania's only land-grant institution

Penn State offers America's oldest continuously accredited Architectural Engineering curriculum

Four Penn State alumni have flown in space: Paul Weitz, Robert Cenker, Guion S. Bluford Jr., and James Pawelczyk

In 1955, Penn State professor Erwin Mueller became the first person to see an atom, using a field ion electron microscope of his own invention

Penn State alumnus Julius Epstein won an Oscar for his screenplay for the classic Humphrey Bogart film, "Casablanca"

Penn State professor Alexander Wolszczan was the first scientist to discover the existence of planets outside of our solar system

One in 50 professionally licensed engineers in the United States is a Penn State graduate

Penn State was the first American institution to confer baccalaureate degrees in agriculture

Nine of every 10 golf courses worldwide use turfgrass varieties developed at Penn State

Penn State physicist Ferdinand Brickwedde produced the world's first measurable amount of deuterium

Ice cream gurus Ben & Jerry got their start from a correspondence course in ice cream making from Penn State

One in every four meteorologists in the United States is a Penn State graduate

Penn State was the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor

A surgeon and two engineers at Penn State perfected the world's first long-life, rechargeable heart pacemaker

One out of every four senior school administrators in Pennsylvania is a graduate of Penn State

Penn State alumnus Charles Krumreich invented the telephone jack

Herman Fisher, co-founder and longtime chairman of the board of Fisher Price, one of the nation's largest toymakers, graduated from Penn State