The Department of Communications Arts and Sciences will host a teach-in titled, "Teaching and Learning Strategies in a Time of Public Debate Over Free Speech on College Campuses" from 6-7:30 p.m. on April 23 in 62 Willard Building on the University Park campus.
For nine students enrolled in HIST/JST 426 The Holocaust and History, the memory landscapes they had studied in class became meaningful reality on an embedded program trip to Poland and Lithuania during spring break last month.
With a $2 million estate gift, Liberal Arts alumnus Geoffrey Morton (1982) is creating a scholarship for students of military families in the College of the Liberal Arts as well as campus beautification endowments for Penn State's Mont Alto and University Park campuses.
Penn State students Kimisse King and Donna Butler are the 2019 Outstanding Adult Student Award recipients. Both of their stories share a common thread: mastering a goal to give back by sharing their experiences to lift others up.
Schreyer Scholars and Presidential Leadership Academy members Ezra Gershanok and Charles Ryan are looking to develop their problem-solving skills and learn from international perspectives during a year in the London School of Economics and Political Science's The General Course study abroad program.
Schreyer Scholar Matthew Dabiero will represent the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences as a student marshal at the spring commencement ceremony on May 4. Excelling in his communications-related coursework has helped him prepare him for his future work in ministry, he said.
Opioid users fear accidental overdoses from street drugs laced with fentanyl, but unpredictable drug quality means they often lack reliable strategies to avoid it, according to a team of researchers who suggest that fentanyl test strips may reduce overdose deaths.
The Liberal Arts Teaching Group will meet at 12:05 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, in Café’ Laura. The Liberal Arts Teaching Group meets monthly each semester to discuss and promote the adoption of evidence-based teaching practices by liberal arts faculty.
Curie Virag, senior research fellow and co-project director in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, will present “The Garden as a Site of Pleasure in China and Byzantium: What We Can Learn from Comparing Medieval Traditions," at 12:30 p.m. on April 22, in Room 102 of the Kern Building.
Mark Anner, associate professor of the School of Labor and Employment Relations and director for the Center for Global Workers’ Rights, has been named inaugural recipient of the Advancing a Global Penn State: Outstanding International Research Award. Anner was honored at a reception held at the Hintz Family Alumni Center on March 20.
Tom Hogan, professor of practice in the School of Labor and Employment Relations, has been named as a Scholar in the Engagement Faculty Academy for the 2019-21 academic years. The Student Engagement Network Faculty Academy is designed to provide funding for educators to deepen the University-wide discourse, practice, and recognition of engaged scholarship at Penn State.
At Penn State's May 4 spring commencement ceremony, 22 students will represent the College of the Liberal Arts as student marshals. Approximately 1,500 undergraduates will receive their degrees at the event, and college marshal Brendan Bernicker will be the commencement speaker for the college's ceremony.
Penn State President Eric Barron presented 11 awards to more than 30 graduate students in recognition of outstanding achievement during the annual Graduate Student Awards Luncheon held April 11 at the Nittany Lion Inn.
Thirteen graduate students received the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award, Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Medal in recognition of their outstanding professional accomplishment and achievement in scholarly research in any of the disciplinary areas of arts and humanities; social sciences—applied and basic; physical and computational sciences—applied and basic; life and health sciences; and engineering.
Ten Penn State graduate students have received the 2019 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award.
