Images from the 2019 Graphis New Talent Platinum Award-winning branding campaign by graphic design seniors Nick Wilson, Amelia Ball and Noemie Noullet for the Converse Chuck 70s.
Using their small family-owned and operated business, Penn State alumni Larry and Anne Barasch launched a fundraiser to sell the now-famous “Stronger Than Hate” T-shirts following the tragic shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last October.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opened its second exhibition for the season, "Amazing Stories: Recent Acquisitions," on Jan. 12. The show features a diverse range of contemporary works recently acquired by the museum.
The Czech National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Mauceri and joined by multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Isabel Leonard, will celebrate the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27 in Eisenhower Auditorium.
As Penn State administrators and faculty members, Barbara and James Korner have seen firsthand how many students struggle to afford a college education. That’s why they have established an Open Doors Scholarship as part of the University’s current fundraising campaign, “A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence.” The couple has also made commitments to support the College of Arts and Architecture, WPSU and Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center through their estate.
The first community conversation focused on the Musser Gap to Valleylands project will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 31 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County at 780 Waupelani Dr. in State College.
Mihyun Kang has been appointed as a research professor in the Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the College of Arts and Architecture liaison to the Sustainability Institute. Kang, who holds a Ph.D. in interior design from the University of Minnesota, comes to Penn State from Oklahoma State University, where she was a professor and the holder of the Chris Salmon Endowed Professorship in the Department of Design, Housing and Merchandising. Her research focuses on sustainable interior design and design for special populations.
Watch a preview of mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard.
The HUB-Robeson Galleries will present “Plug In, Turn On” and “Architecting Atmospheres,” which use sound, light and space to create environmental atmospheres. The exhibits will run through March 31, with a free gallery reception from 4 to 6 p.m. on Feb. 28 in the Robeson Gallery, lower level, HUB-Robeson Center.
Paul Daniel Marriott, a visiting teaching professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, will serve as a featured speaker at an international symposium centered around the contributions of 18th-century landscape designer Humphry Repton on Jan. 31 at the Garden Museum in London.
What's happening at Penn State? Highlights include Coach Ken Carter speaking at Penn State Harrisburg, dance troupe BodyTraffic and the return of "Back to the Future" to the big screen at Penn State York.
Since Bonnie Collura, associate professor in the Penn State School of Visual Arts, was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2005 for “The Prince Project,” her work completed around the concept has taken many forms — and the latest is on display at Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, through Feb. 24.
Barbara Palmer, whose lifetime of philanthropy is evident across Penn State and the Centre region, died peacefully on Sunday, Jan. 20. She was 93. Recognized by the University as an honorary alumna in 1987, Palmer was deeply engaged as a donor and a volunteer at the institution and in many organizations throughout the region.
The Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway hit “Beautiful—The Carole King Musical,” about the early life and career of the legendary and groundbreaking singer/songwriter, will make its State College premiere with seven performances Feb. 19–24 at Eisenhower Auditorium.
NHK, Japan’s national public broadcasting organization, will be on the University Park campus Jan. 22 to film the Penn State interdisciplinary team that has advanced to the third phase of NASA’s $3.1-million 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge.
