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"Autumn Landscape" by William Louis Sonntag

Palmer Museum of Art receives major work by William Louis Sonntag

7/1/19

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has received "Autumn Landscape," a major work by American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900), from Hilary Peery Vesell. Vesell donated the painting in honor of her late father, Dr. Elliot Vesell, who served for 32 years as the founding chair of pharmacology at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and 22 years as assistant dean of graduate studies at the Penn State College of Medicine.

Chris Stubbs

Stubbs named director of Office of Digital Learning in Arts and Architecture

6/28/19

Chris Stubbs, manager of emerging technology and media for Teaching and Learning with Technology at Penn State, has been named director of the Office of Digital Learning in the College of Arts and Architecture, effective July 1. Stubbs brings 15 years of experience as an educational technology leader at the University.

"The Molok" Team

Architecture-affiliated film addresses the power of memory through community

6/27/19

James Kalsbeek, Penn State professor of architecture in the Stuckeman School, has joined forces with a Brooklyn-based film crew to create a film about storytelling, loss and memory. "The Molok" begins filming in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, on July 1 and continues through Arts Festival weekend with community events being hosted at The Workshop, a collaborative space for experimental art, design and performance.

Penn State Den@Mars Team

Designing sustainable homes on Mars and Earth

6/25/19

A team of Penn State researchers has accepted NASA’s challenge of designing an autonomous system capable of creating a human shelter on Mars using 3D-printing technology. With the focus of the project on Mars, and research with a science-fiction-edge spurring the imagination to expand, perhaps the most profound application of their work is on Earth.

Barbara Korner speaking at APLU panel on arts and scientific research

Heard on Campus: Dean Korner on blending art and research to change lives

6/20/19

"I’ve been hammering away at the notion that if science researchers bring artists and designers to the table at the beginning, they will find that these creatives will ask new questions, will explode those questions and explode that research wide open, and will lead to new directions and new discoveries,” said Barbara Korner, dean of the College of Arts and Architecture.

2019 USAC awards

University Staff Advisory Council honors outstanding staff

6/17/19

Penn State University President Eric Barron recently welcomed members of the University Staff Advisory Council (USAC) and the recipients of the 2019 USAC Awards to his home at the Schreyer House for a celebration of the recipients’ outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the University.

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