Learn about the broad entrepreneurial ecosystem and how law and health care are closely intertwined within the commercialization of new technologies during the next Innovation Forum and Café from 2 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, at Penn State’s Dickinson Law, Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle.

Pennsylvania Bar AssociationPresident and Triquetra Law Managing Partner Sharon R. López will give Penn State Dickinson Law’s commencement address May 12 during a ceremony inside the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium at Dickinson College.

Third-year Dickinson Law student Erin Varley was named “Law Student of the Year” for the Northeast region by The National Jurist. Varley is one of 20 future lawyers recognized nationally and the only law student from Pennsylvania.

Penn State Dickinson Law’s Women’s Law Caucus presented 1978 alumna Barbara R. McLemore with the 24th annual Hon. Sylvia H. Rambo Award during a ceremony Feb. 22 at Lewis Katz Hall in Carlisle. McLemore received the award in recognition of her exemplary contributions to the legal profession and to society as a whole.

Uppsala University in Sweden, the oldest Scandinavian university, recently conferred the degree of juris doctor honoris causa on William E. Butler, John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Dickinson Law. Butler is the seventh American to receive the honor in the field of law, which originated at Uppsala in 1600.

Dickinson Law Review will present “Access to Justice — Innovations and Challenges in Providing Assistance to Pro Se Litigants” from 8 to 4:45 p.m. on Friday, March 16, in the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium, Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle.