David Fieni, assistant professor of French at the State University of New York, Oneonta, will present “Dreyfus in Algeria," at 12:15 p.m. on April 1 in 102 Kern Building at University Park, as part of the Comparative Literature Luncheon lecture series.
Katie Fallon will read from her book, “Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, in The Nittany Lion Inn Assembly Room on the University Park campus of Penn State.
Patricia Roberts-Miller, professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas-Austin, will deliver the Penn State Center for Democratic Deliberation’s annual Kenneth Burke Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. April 16 in the Nittany Lion Inn Faculty-Staff Club.
Four Pennsylvania-connected poets whose works have been chosen to represent the Pennsylvania Center for the Book’s 19th annual Public Poetry Poster series will read their works as the 2019 Public Poetry Project poster series is unveiled April 2 during “An Evening of Pennsylvania Poets: Readings in Celebration of the Public Poetry Project.”
Mary Kruk, a doctoral student in psychology and women’s gender, and sexuality studies; and Joe Phillips, a political science doctoral student, will spend the summer conducting research on the McCourtney Institute for Democracy's Mood of the Nation Poll, an open-ended public opinion poll that seeks to understand why Americans feel the way they do about politics and current events.
On Wednesday, March 27, Penn State and State College-area leaders will facilitate “Welcoming the Other,” an event aimed at building bridges within the community, opening up dialogue around negative rhetoric and violence against immigrants and refugees, and examining the meaning of our national motto, "E pluribus unum" — From many, one.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will study the role team interactions have on engineering student teams’ performance during the design process.
Penn State alumnus Jay Yonamine, head of data science and global patents at Google, will deliver a public lecture titled “A History of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning” at 11:15 a.m. on Friday, March 29, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium.
Monica Popescu, associate professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literature at McGill University, will present “Mythologies of Realism and Modernism: African Literature and the Cold War” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, March 25, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.
For undergraduate students considering a doctorate in the humanities field, this weekend will be a chance to learn more about the versatility of such a degree. The symposium, entitled “The Agile Humanities Ph.D.: Careers in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,” will take place in Grucci Room, 102 Burrowes Building, on Friday, March 22, and Saturday, March 23.
This week's cultural highlights include the return of the Maple Harvest Festival, "Saturday Night Live" comedian Michael Che at Penn State Behrend, the Alumni Association's City Lights in Philadelphia event and a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Three Mile Island at Penn State Harrisburg.
Male and female serial killers tend to choose their victims and commit their crimes in different ways, which may be due to thousands of years of psychological evolution, according to Penn State researchers.
Each year, Penn State honors several students for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. The 2019 student award recipients exemplify best practices and achievements among Penn State students, reflecting the University's mission of teaching, research and service.
Kelsey Crow, senior double-major in biology and psychology at Penn State, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Eric A. Walker Award.
Kaytlynn Griswold, doctoral student in industrial organizational psychology in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State, is the recipient of the 2019 Jackson Lethbridge Tolerance Award.
