Krista Wilkinson, professor of communication sciences and disorders in the College of Health and Human Development, has received Penn State's 2019 President’s Award for Engagement with Students.
Since graduating from the Penn State School of Theatre in 2014, Roberto Sinha has toured with several Broadway productions, including “Kinky Boots,” working to inspire audiences through musical theater. His history with Broadway gives him authority to share advice for auditioning actors.
The work of current and former Penn State architecture students who have taken part in the study abroad program at the Pantheon Institute in Rome went on display March 28 at the Italian embassy in Washington, D.C.
Penn State’s 3D printing team, PennStateDen@Mars, has advanced to Phase 3, Level 4 of the NASA 3D-Printed Habitat Competition, after capturing a third-place victory in Phase 3, Level 3 of the competition.
"To Kill a Mockingbird," the Penn State Jazz Festival, the return of the Research Unplugged lecture series, and a Penn State Alumni Association City Lights event in Pittsburgh's PNC Park are among the cultural highlights at Penn State this weekend and next week.
Rodney Allen Trice's "Walk a Mile..." project aims to use immersive technology to spark empathy and conversations among diverse audiences. It won the 2019 Open Innovation Challenge.
The goal of the endowed professorship, established by the children of Agnes Scollins Carey, is to help the College of Arts and Architecture compete for, support and retain outstanding scholars and practitioners in the arts in the early stages of their careers.
The National Science Foundation has provided funding to a team of design professionals, including Penn State Stuckeman School faculty member Mihyun Kang, to develop a seating solution that improves the blood flow and mobility of workers who are required to sit for long periods of time.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has announced a transformational gift of 140 American works on paper, recently donated by Penn State alumnus John P. Driscoll. The expansive gift, one of the most important in the 47-year history of the University’s art museum, establishes a significant American drawings collection at the Palmer Museum of Art.
Entrepreneurs across the University will pitch their business ideas and create inventive solutions to common problems through a series of competitions and challenges held during Penn State Startup Week from April 1-5. The challenges are at the heart of Startup Week’s mission of teaching and inspiring participants to make innovation a part of their lives, communities and careers, either by starting their own companies or bringing a problem-solving approach to established organizations.
The Woskob Family Gallery welcomes two new exhibitions: a sound installation by Penn State doctoral candidate Ilayda Altuntas, and sculptural lanterns made by first-year students of architecture from the Stuckeman School.
Mallika Bose, associate professor of landscape architecture and interim associate dean for research, creative activity and graduate studies for the College of Arts and Architecture, is slated as a keynote speaker for the Design Across Divides: Co-creating Tools for Community Change conference to be held March 28-30 in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Penn State Centre Stage presents "To Kill a Mockingbird," Christopher Sergel's stage adaptation based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, April 2–12, at the Playhouse Theatre. The play chronicles the social and racial inequalities of the rural South in 1935 as told through the eyes of a young girl.
In December 2018, a team of five Penn State students from the College of Arts and Architecture, the Eberly College of Science, the College of Engineering, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology joined forces to earn the top spot in the international Kaggle University Hackathon, the first-ever university hackathon of its kind.
Faculty members from the Stuckeman School and the Penn State College of Medicine have come together to organize the Wearing the Future Workshop from 9:30 a.m.to 4 p.m. on Monday, March 25, at the Hilton Garden Inn Hershey, located at 550 E. Main St. in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.
