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.
Sybarite5 is always on the lookout for new tunes and composers speaking with unique and relevant voices. “Outliers,” the title of the string quintet’s 2018 album and its 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 concert program at Schwab Auditorium, celebrates works written for the ensemble by the musicians’ favorite composers.
Penn State alumna Libby Gopal, 2002 bachelor of science in music education, was recently selected as the recipient of the New Jersey governor’s Educator of the Year Award for East Orange Campus High School for her educational contributions at the local, district and state level.
Watch the quintet perform a cover of “Take on Me” by A-ha.
Vincent P. Benitez, associate professor of music theory in the Penn State School of Music, has been appointed as the scholarship and research editor for the College Music Symposium: Journal of the College Music Society.
What's happening at Penn State? Upcoming events include Martin Luther King Jr. activities, the Broadway musical "Finding Neverland" and March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg.
The Center for the Performing Arts will present “Me … Jane: The Dreams and Adventures of Young Jane Goodall” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, in Eisenhower Auditorium. The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour’s new musical celebrates the life of the young, plucky animal activist and her stuffed chimpanzee Jubilee.
The Mary E. Rolling Reading series lecture by Penn State professors Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin, originally scheduled for Jan. 24, will now take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 31, in Paterno Library's Foster Auditorium.
Mark L. Lusk, professor in School of Music, will hold his 63rd bi-annual trombone recital from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Jan. 28, in the Recital Hall in Music Building I on the University Park campus of Penn State.
Watch a preview of “Me … Jane: The Dreams and Adventures of Young Jane Goodall.”
