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Ping Li

Psychologist to speak on how the brain learns languages, Sept. 11

8/30/18

How are cyber-enabled and computational methods helping researchers better understand how humans learn languages? Ping Li, Penn State professor of psychology, linguistics, and information sciences and technology, and associate director of the Institute for CyberScience, will share his perspective to kick off the ICS CyberScience Seminar series for 2018-19 on Sept. 11. The event is free and open to the public.

David Frum to discuss the ‘guardrails of democracy’ on Sept. 26

8/30/18

Frum, a senior editor at the Atlantic and author of “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic,” will present a lecture on what he describes as the “guardrails of democracy” at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 26 in the Lewis Katz Building auditorium. The lecture is presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy in the College of the Liberal Arts.

David and Margaret Gray

David and Margaret Gray endow graduate scholarship

8/29/18

David Gray, a Penn State senior administrator, and Margaret Gray, a Centre County government leader, have made a commitment of $210,000 to create the first graduate scholarship in Penn State’s new master of public policy program in the College of the Liberal Arts.

Marathon Read tent

Marathon Read to commemorate 1968 with annual communal reading

8/29/18

The Marathon Read will again occupy Pattee Mall for a community reading event on Thursday, Sept. 13. The event’s theme is “Pages from 1968” and will commemorate 50 years since the watershed months of 1968, with resonant texts from that year, including Philip K. Dick’s novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Kirk French to deliver Liberal Arts First-Year Lecture

8/28/18

Kirk French, associate teaching professor of anthropology, will deliver the third annual Liberal Arts First-Year Faculty Lecture on Aug. 29. The theme of French’s presentation will be “Live, Learn, Share – Diving Into the Liberal Arts.”

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Institute for CyberScience announces 2018-19 Seminar Series speakers

8/27/18

Business, language, deep learning, networks, health and cybersecurity — the 2018-19 CyberScience Seminar Series, which launches on Sept. 11, will feature researchers who use high-performance computing methods, including big data analysis, big simulations and complex modeling, to push the envelope and make advances in their fields.

City of Ghosts movie poster

Film screening of 'City of Ghosts,' followed by discussion

8/22/18

The Center for Global Studies will present a film screening of "City of Ghosts" on Sept. 5 in the Lewis Katz Auditorium, followed by a discussion with Abdalaziz Alhamza, award-winning Syrian journalist, human rights defender and activist.

Awaly Diallo

Liberal Arts junior spends summer seeking justice for others

8/22/18

Awaly Diallo, a junior majoring in sociology and African American studies, worked for the Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern School of Law in Boston this summer. The CRRJ investigates cold cases involving racially motivated homicides that occurred between 1930 and 1970. The project works to uncover what happened to the victims, tell their stories, and try to provide closure to the affected families and communities through restorative justice.

ARC 2018-19 fellows

Africana Research Center welcomes 2018-19 postdoctoral, dissertation fellows

8/21/18

Penn State's Africana Research Center recently announced its three postdoctoral and three dissertation fellows for the 2018-19 academic year. The program supports early career scholars and junior faculty who conduct research centered on or related to Africa and the African Diaspora and assists them in establishing themselves in academia.

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