UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 12 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:

MONACA, Pa. - These days you can find conservationist and zookeeper Nicole Day feeding, caring for and cleaning up after a menagerie of animals, both large and small, at a private zoo.

Her journey to her career and life's passion began at Penn State Beaver.

Day, a 2016 graduate, said she comes from a Penn State family. Her parents, Tom and Michelle Day, met when they went to Penn State Beaver. Her brother, Tom Day III, graduated from Penn State Altoona after spending his first two years at the Beaver campus. Her father's sisters both went to Penn State, as did her great-uncle, and her cousin is currently a nursing student at University Park....