Campus & Community Resources
Welcome!
The primary onboarding of postdoctoral scholars and fellows will be led by departments. This page will be continually updated with supplemental information.
- Check out rental housing options (apartments.com, apartmentguide.com, craigslist), Penn State's off-campus housing site, and/or home ownership programs. (Student Affairs also has detailed information on tenant rights if that's helpful.)
- Get a PA driver's license.
- Acquaint yourself with the local bus schedule and the RIDEpass mass transit program.
- Get a Penn State ID.
- Check out the National Postdoc Association Survival Guide.
- Explore child care options if that applies: Winnie.com, StateCollege.com
- Find research at Penn State and explore that research on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
- Consider joining an Employee Resource Group.
- Check out the Penn State Postdoctoral Society (university wide, governed by postdocs) and Postdocs of EMS (an exellent model of postdoctoral self-organization within a college).
- Start planning your PA bucket list!