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Workshop to look at how photography can enhance teaching

4/15/14

The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence will host Martin Springborg’s workshop on “Teaching and Learning through the Lens of Photography” from 9 to 10:15 a.m. Friday, April 25, in 308E Olmsted at Penn State Harrisburg and via Polycom.

Kristina Taylor-Porter at Children's Advocacy Center of Centre County

Teamwork key to success at Children's Advocacy Center

4/15/14

Recent legislation enacted in Pennsylvania to protect children and prevent child abuse and neglect will substantially strengthen the efforts of Centre County's new -- and first -- children's advocacy center. The Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) of Centre County opened in February and shares a building and partnership with Mount Nittany Health. The center, which received a jump start in 2013 with a contribution from Penn State, promotes a compassionate, multi-disciplinary approach to the prevention, identification, intervention and treatment of child abuse.

Musselman's Apple Sauce Family Skating Tribute

Olympians, world champions to headline Pegula Ice Arena figure skating show

4/15/14

The Musselman's Apple Sauce Family Skating Tribute returns Oct. 19 to Penn State's Pegula Ice Arena. The family-themed show features music from Amy Grant performances by numerous figure skating Olympic medalists and world champions, including Nancy Kerrigan, Paul Wylie, and Ekaterina Gordeeva.

Homecoming committee members hold up a sign to display the 2014 logo.

Penn State Homecoming to host Legacy Celebration on Wednesday

4/15/14

Penn State Homecoming will host its fourth annual Legacy Celebration from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday throughout the ground and first floors of the HUB-Robeson Center to celebrate the spirit of the upcoming Homecoming season and to welcome the 2014 Honorary Grand Marshal.

2014 Stand Up Award Winners from the Rock Ethics Institute

Penn State students recognized for taking an ethical stand

4/15/14

Two Penn State students received the 2014 Stand Up Award for showing courage and fortitude and demonstrating ethical leadership through personal example. The Stand Up awards are sponsored by the Rock Ethics Institute in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. This year's honorees are Zachary Brubaker, a physics major and president of the Penn State Alliance of the Blind and Sighted, and Maggie Cardin, a childhood and early adolescent education major and President of Penn State’s chapter of Aevidum, an organization devoted to helping teachers recognize and respond to student mental illness.

Susan Marqusee

Ernest C. Pollard Lecture scheduled for April 28

4/14/14

Susan Marqusee, Warren C. Eveland Chair, professor of molecular and cell biology, and director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) at the University of California, Berkeley, will present the 2013-14 Ernest C. Pollard Lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, April 28, in 108 Wartik Laboratory on the Penn State University Park campus. The free public lecture is titled “Beyond the Native State: Uncovering the Sequence Determinants of the Energy Landscape.”

Net Impact and Beta Alpha Psi partner with KPMG to fight illiteracy

4/14/14

Earlier this semester, the Penn State Smeal College of Business Net Impact Undergraduate Chapter partnered with KPMG, Accounting and Finance honors society Beta Alpha Psi, and First Book for a corporate social responsibility event providing 200 children at Penn’s Valley Elementary School in Spring Mills, Pa., with books and a day of literacy activities.

Graduate students who received the 2014 Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award

Thirteen graduate students receive the Alumni Association Dissertation Award

4/14/14

Thirteen graduate students received the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award this spring in recognition of their outstanding achievement in scholarship and professional accomplishments. This award is considered to be among the most prestigious available to Penn State graduate students.

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