Gary Abdullah Wants All Students to Feel Part of ‘Bellisario College Family’

Gary Abdullah Wants All Students to Feel Part of ‘Bellisario College Family’

This story originally appeared in the July 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. Gary Abdullah keeps a box of tissues and a bowl of chocolates in his Carnegie Building office at Penn State’s Bellisario College of Communications. The items are simple offerings of comfort for students who may be going through a difficult time. But mostly, it’s Abdullah’s listening ear that makes all the difference. Students in need of that ear are “going to come in he…