"Impressionism and the Art of Medical Communication," will be on display from March 11-21 in the Borland Project Space. This exhibition presents the work of students from the course “Impressionism and the Art of Medical Communication,” a Penn State College of Medicine course co-taught by Dr. Michael Flanagan in the Department of Art History and the College of Medicine.
The Penn State Student Programming Association Lectures Committee, in collaboration with the Rock Ethics Institute, will present a free lecture by Bryan Stevenson at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, in Eisenhower Auditorium. The lecture is part of SPA’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Stevenson is an award-winning author and lawyer who wrote the New York Times best-seller "Just Mercy." He also is a leading voice for civil rights and criminal justice reform.
After losing her sister to cancer at just 11 years old, Kylie Kuhns founded a nonprofit called Kelsey's Dream to assist other children with cancer. The senior labor and employment relations major has dedicated her life to serving others through Kelsey's Dream, THON, and even in the White House.
Charlotte Eubanks, associate professor of comparative literature, Japanese and Asian studies at Penn State, will present “The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan," at 12:15 p.m. Feb. 25, in Room 102 of the Kern Building.
The Center for Global Studies will present a film screening of "Human Flow" at 4 p.m. on March 26 in Lewis Katz Auditorium at University Park. The film gives a powerful visual expression to massive human migration. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe.
More than 600 campus community members came together on Jan. 21 for student-facilitated conversation, a "Day of Dialogue" pilot event hosted by World In Conversation: A Center for Public Diplomacy.
Find out what’s happening at University Park and start a new tradition this summer at We Are Weekend, which combines time-honored favorites and new advancements that Penn Staters are sure to love. The Penn State Alumni Association will host the premier summer event from May 31 to June 2 at University Park, with some events taking place nearby in downtown State College.
Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinction in the world. Resettlement of indigenous communities resulted in the spread of invasive species, the absence of human-set fires, and a general cascade in the interconnected food web that led to the largest mammalian extinction event ever recorded. In this case, the absence of direct human activity on the landscape may be the cause of the extinctions, according to a Penn State anthropologist.
Award-winning poet Kimiko Hahn will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium.
Associate Professor of History Julie Reed, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, recently joined the Penn State faculty, joining a cohort of scholars who focus on indigenous studies in the Department of History in the College of the Liberal Arts. Concurrently, Penn State became one of only 20 institutions to be admitted as members in the prestigious Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies.
This weekend, thousands of volunteers will work around the clock to make sure THON runs smoothly. Those volunteers are led by an Executive Board made up of 17 Penn State students. Five of those students are in the College of the Liberal Arts.
Penn State Law at University Park is now accepting the Graduate Record Examination for applicants seeking a juris doctor in combination with a graduate degree in a different discipline at Penn State.
For the fifth year, Penn State first-year honors students are inviting the community to join them for Deliberation Nation, a series of deliberative discussions about local, national and global issues of significance and urgency. More than 50 deliberation events will be held on the University Park campus and in State College from Feb. 18-28.
Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts inducted 142 students as Paterno Fellows and Schreyer Scholars on Feb. 6 as part of an innovative landmark program offered jointly by the college and the Schreyer Honors College. In addition, the winners of the sixth annual Collegiate Laws of Life Essay Contest were recognized at the ceremony.
A team of Penn State researchers measured the biological responses of mothers and children during problem-solving tasks to see how they differed in maltreating and non-maltreating families.
