Curated by Katie Fuller and Larry Ossei-Mensah, the exhibition "Race and Revolution: Still Separate, Still Unequal" debuted in 2017 at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York and is traveling to universities and cultural institutions across the country. The exhibit will be displayed at the Woskob Family Gallery through April 6.
Curtis Craig, associate professor of sound design and head of the Penn State Bachelor of Fine Arts Design and Technology program, will host a meet-and-greet on March 23, immediately following a showing of the play "How To Catch Creation," scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., presented by the Philadelphia Theatre Company at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre.
Penn State Behrend will hold its annual spring admissions open house for prospective students on Saturday, April 6.
In coming weeks, three Virginia schools — the University of Virginia, Randolph College and Virginia Tech — will screen two critically acclaimed documentaries produced by Penn State assistant professor Boaz Dvir.
We Are Weekend, to be held May 31-June 2, appeals to Penn Staters of all generations, providing an opportunity to attend with family, friends and classmates — and also meet some new Penn Staters.
Don Dillman, Regents Professor in the Department of Sociology and deputy director for research and development in the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center at Washington State University, will present the 2019 M.E. John Lecture on April 10, sponsored by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
A bike auction is scheduled for noon on Wednesday, April 17, at Lion Surplus. Lost or abandoned bikes found on campus will be sold one-by-one or on skids.
The Maple Harvest Festival returns to Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center for two days of pancakes, learning about the maple sugaring process, music, storytelling and live birds of prey and reptile shows on March 23 and 24.
Lion Surplus and Keystone State Auctioneers are preparing for the spring computer and electronics auction.
In January Penn State Global Programs held the Global Engagement and Leadership Experience (GELE) program at the Antiochian Village Conference Center in Bolivar, Pennsylvania. GELE is a program that was developed to foster and facilitate conversations in a diverse cohort of students. The program brings together domestic and international students for a weekend retreat, with multiple sessions focused on intercultural communication and global leadership.
The second community conversation focused on the Musser Gap to Valleylands project will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on March 28 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County at 780 Waupelani Dr. in State College.
Jennifer Tennessen, a 2015 graduate of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences' ecology graduate program, applies the lessons of her interdisciplinary research at Penn State to her professional work with killer whales in the Pacific Northwest.
Penn State's leadership on March 15 released a statement denouncing the terrorist attacks on mosques in New Zealand. "The tragic and senseless violence against Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, has captured the attention of our nation and the world. Penn State stands with the people of New Zealand in denouncing these horrific terrorist attacks and in offering our deepest condolences. We also offer our sympathy and support to our Muslim community here and abroad, who are so deeply impacted by the hatred and religious bigotry displayed by these acts. And finally, we express our strongest condemnation of those responsible; they are cowards who do not represent our vision of a diverse and caring, global community."
Read the full statement here.
PennDOT is issuing a mid-March update for its North Atherton Street project in State College. Waterline work near the North Atherton Street and Park Avenue intersection is expected to create lengthy traffic delays.
On March 15, fourth-year Penn State College of Medicine students learned where they’ll be heading for their residencies during Match Day — an annual tradition for medical students across the country.
