(JTA) – Penn State, one of the largest universities in the country, has introduced a kosher food option for campus dining on a one-year trial basis. The dining space, called Pure, opened last month at the start of the fall semester. It is part of a new campus dining hall that also provides halal-certified meat for Muslim students, as well as a food allergen-free station.

A Penn State senior, Aaron Goldberg of Philadelphia, last year approached the director of residential dining, Lisa Wandel, about the need for a kosher dining option, bringing 10 pages of requests from other students and ideas about how the provision of kosher food could be approached, the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent reported. Penn State’s main campus in University Park has some 40,000 students, making it among the top 10 largest in the U.S. There are about 5,000 Jewish students there. Star-K of Baltimore is providing the kosher supervision and will provide a mashgiach, or kashrut supervisor, for the kitchen.