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Stuckeman School collaborates on new architecture journal

12/11/18

The Penn State Stuckeman School has collaborated with the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and the Centre for Documentary Architecture at Bauhaus-University, Weimar (Germany) to publish a new journal that celebrates research as the source of architectural imagination.

Nittany AI Celebration

2019 Nittany AI Challenge offers grant opportunities totaling $50,000

12/6/18

Penn State students have the opportunity to create solutions to real world problems and gain hands-on experience with artificial intelligence technology and AI experts during the 2019 Nittany AI Challenge. Participating teams can compete for grant awards totaling $50,000. Proposals are due Jan. 29, 2019.

Melissa Leaym-Fernandez

Judy Chicago Art Education Award invites submissions

12/5/18

Through the Flower, a nonprofit art organization, invites artists, scholars and educators to apply for the 2019 Judy Chicago Art Education Award. The award, named in honor of one of the Feminist Art Movement’s key founders, is awarded annually and is accompanied by a $1,500 prize along with a certificate signed by Chicago. The application deadline is June 1, 2019.

arboretum winter festival

Things to Do at Penn State: Dec. 6-31

12/5/18

The Winter Celebration at the Penn State Arboretum, a descendant of author Charles Dickens visiting University Park to celebrate the 175th anniversary of "A Christmas Carol" and the annual Tuba Christmas at Penn State Behrend are among the cultural highlights happening across Penn State through the end of the fall 2018 semester.

Landscape architecture student Madison Borsos shows her design plans for the Woodland Academy site

Students aim to spark unity through design in Southwest Philadelphia community

12/3/18

Penn State landscape architecture students enrolled in the Studio III – Site Design class this fall were presented with a complex assignment right from the start: Design the site for a new 7.5-acre educational facility on the grounds of a National Historic Landmark that will serve not only as an example of design excellence, but also as a catalyst to unite the Southwest Philadelphia community.

Ceramic Sale

Woskob Family Gallery hosts December First Friday and Clay Club ceramic sale

12/3/18

December's First Friday will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Woskob Family Gallery. There will be a pop-up sale of affordable ceramic works by members of the Clay Club, the student organization of Penn State’s nationally recognized ceramics program. Holiday shoppers can check out the ceramic works, priced between $10 and $60.

Sing Out! winners announced

Sing Out! competition winners announced

11/29/18

Following a two-week residency at the Borland Project Space the winners of Sing Out!, a performance-based competition created by the School of Music and the School of Theatre at Penn State, have been announced.

Maureen Carr

Distinguished Professor of Music Maureen Carr wins Solie Award

11/28/18

Distinguished Professor of Music Maureen Carr was presented with the Ruth A. Solie Award at the 2018 meeting of the American Musicological Society in San Antonio, Texas, for a book titled "The Rite of Spring at 100" (Indiana University Press, 2017).

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