To commemorate the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Center for Education and Civil Rights and the Africana Research Center at Penn State will convene Brown@65, a national symposium of education, law and policy scholars and practitioners, May 10 on Penn State's University Park campus.
Three Penn State alumni and former Nittany Lions now starring in the NFL will return to campus April 12, the day before the Blue-White Game, to participate in a panel discussion about the business of football at 4:30 p.m. in the HUB-Robeson Center.
Penn State's Service Enterprise Engineering initiative and Penn State Athletics have worked together on two projects focused on optimizing the efficiency of concession stands and reducing women's restroom wait times at Beaver Stadium.
Entrepreneurs across the University will pitch their business ideas and create inventive solutions to common problems through a series of competitions and challenges held during Penn State Startup Week from April 1-5. The challenges are at the heart of Startup Week’s mission of teaching and inspiring participants to make innovation a part of their lives, communities and careers, either by starting their own companies or bringing a problem-solving approach to established organizations.
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.
The Penn State Alumni Association will honor prominent young alumni at the Alumni Achievement Awards on March 29.
Lisa Iulo, associate professor of architecture and director of the Hamer Center for Community Design in the Stuckeman School, is the lead researcher on an interdisciplinary team that has received funding from Penn State to develop community-based solutions to river flooding in Pennsylvania under the University’s strategic plan seed grant program.
Students in the Penn State Law Civil Rights Appellate Clinic got real insight into law practice by filing a petition for certiorari Feb. 1 in the U.S. Supreme Court in the whistleblower case Cody v. Mantech. This filing came on the heels of a brief the clinic filed four days earlier in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Doe v. Law School Admission Council, which asserts that the council violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide reasonable accommodations on the Law School Admission Test.
The Honorable Tanya R. Kennedy, a Penn State alumna who is a New York Supreme Court justice and former supervising judge of Civil Court in New York County, will deliver the 2019 commencement address for Penn State Law on Saturday, May 11, at University Park.
Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, will speak March 12 at the Lewis Katz Building at University Park as a guest of the Center for Security Research and Education. Egeland's talk is titled "Protecting refugees in an age of global insecurity."
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.
Penn State's Institutes of Energy and the Environment, in collaboration with the Center for Security Research and Education, will host a meeting on March 21 to discuss PFAS, synthetic chemicals that have been used in numerous industrial and consumer products and now are thought to be connected to health problems.
Registration is now open for Security and the Autonomous Future, an upcoming symposium sponsored jointly by the Penn State Center for Security Research and Education and the Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs. The two-day event, taking place April 4-5, will bring together Penn State faculty and other national experts to explore how autonomous systems will affect our personal, national and global security.
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.
To thank veterans and their families for their sacrifice and commitment, the College of Nursing and Penn State Law will co-sponsor a Veterans Outreach Fair on March 30. Students, faculty and community partners will offer a variety of services, including health screenings and education and legal consultation — all free of charge.
