Weekly Wrap: Campus safety tips; Affordable housing; Addams Family Holiday

Charles Addams’ 1952 mural, now known as “An Addams Family Holiday,” has been hung in Pattee Library since the early 1990s. It was moved from its original location, the Dune Deck Hotel in Westhampton Beach, New York, and donated to Penn State by Walter and Doris Goldstein. Credit: Penn State University Libraries / Penn StateCreative Commons

Campus Safety Tips: Penn State is committed to providing the safest possible campus environment for our students, faculty, staff and visitors. With the new academic year beginning, University Police and Public safety officials want to remind everyone about safety programming and resources available at Penn State.

Affordable, Sustainable Housing: The GreenBuild project is a collaboration between community members, Penn State, and stakeholders to create affordable, sustainable homes for middle-income homeowners.

An Addams Family Holiday: A 1952 mural by iconic American cartoonist Charles Addams has been relocated in the newly renovated and renamed MacKinnon’s Lounge, on the first floor of Paterno Library on Penn State’s University Park campus, just in time for fans to mark the 30th anniversary of Addams’ passing. 

Board of Trustees: The full board will meet at 1 p.m. on Sept. 14. The meeting will be streamed live online at http://wpsu.org/trustees/.

Coral Bleaching: Bleaching events caused by rising water temperatures could increase mortality among a coral species already threatened by disease, says new research by Mote Marine Laboratory and Penn State.

Hershey Medical Center: One visit to the Hershey campus of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine is all it takes to recognize the organization is undergoing transformational change.

 

 

Last Updated September 13, 2018