Lam and Lina Hood grew up during the Great Depression in families who subsisted on the basics, but they found ways to enjoy various events and give back to their communities. The couple’s volunteerism and unwavering support for the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State — as ushers for more than 20 years and members since the mid-2000s — earned the Hoods the center’s 2019 Distinguished Service Award.
A unique artist-in-residence program involving the Colleges of Arts and Architecture and Nursing aims to infuse artistic representation into the science of nursing.
To showcase Penn State’s growing collection of art and provide space for a range of cultural activities and events, University leaders have proposed the construction of a new freestanding art museum on the University Park campus that would be located in The Arboretum at Penn State. The Penn State Board of Trustees approved the selection of Allied Works as the architect to design the new University Art Museum at its meeting on Friday, May 3.
Penn State Centre Stage will launch its return to professional summer theatre with "One Night on Broadway," a special benefit event, on May 20 at the Penn State Downtown Theatre.
The design team of Alexis Stern, Amelia Ball, Kayla Corazzi, Callahan Miller and Noemie Noullet produced the video that artist Christiane Dolores deemed best in their Time and Sequence class. The friendship between the instructor of the course, Rodney Allen Trice, and the artist was the basis for the collaboration, which has led to some unexpected publicity of the students' work.
Adam Longenbach graduated from Penn State in 2011 with both bachelor of architecture and master of architecture degrees. He works alongside fellow alumnus Matt McMahon as a researcher at Snøhetta, an internationally renowned practice of architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, product and graphic design.
Adam Longenbach, a 2011 architecture alumnus, now works as a researcher at Snøhetta in New York City.
Five teams of architecture, landscape architecture and architectural engineering students have developed comprehensive plans for how Penn State can re-develop the 9-acre Sustainability Experience Center on the edge of the University Park campus. Their visions were judged by a panel of Penn State and outside experts and will help inform the request for proposals that the University issues to professional design teams.
The Palmer Museum of Art’s acclaimed exhibition, "From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space," will be closing at the Palmer on May 12 and traveling to The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York, where it opens on June 15.
Three students in Penn State’s graphic design program were acknowledged for their work as part of the Pittsburgh chapter of AIGA, a professional organization for design.
Madhuri Desai, associate professor of art history and Asian studies, has been awarded the 2019 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).
A new publication based on the proceedings of the E+D: Ecology Plus Design Symposium stresses the importance of a true partnership between designers and ecologists from the start of a landscape architecture project, through the design process, and to completion.
Three longtime members of the Stuckeman School faculty — Timothy Johnson, Neil Korostoff and James Wines — will retire in June after serving Penn State for a combined 87 years.
The public is invited to join the family and friends of Barbara Raeder Palmer at a celebration of her life at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 12, at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the Penn State University Park campus. Palmer, whose lifetime of philanthropy is evident across Penn State and the Centre region, died on Jan. 20, 2019, at the age of 93.
William J. Doan, professor of theatre in the College of Arts and Architecture and artist-in-residence in the College of Nursing, has been named Penn State Laureate for the 2019–20 academic year. As laureate, he will explore the intersections of art, science and health through interactive experiences — including performances, workshops and discussions — that address issues of living with anxiety and depression.
