As part of the embedded course NURS 499: Foreign Study, 13 students from Penn State Behrend, University Park and Hershey traveled to Havana, Cuba, to tour several health clinics and learn about the Cuban health care delivery system.
Penn State Abington students have the opportunity to become among the first college students to study in Cuba through a summer research practicum focusing on Cuban conservation efforts and environmental policies.
Margarita Engle, Cuban-American author of “Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings,” and 2016 winner of the national Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, will receive the national children’s poetry honor and speak about her writing at 4 p.m. Sept. 20 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. The award, selected by a panel of nationally recognized authors, librarians, teachers and scholars, is administered by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book and the Penn State University Libraries.
Nine students traveled to Havana, Cuba, as part of an embedded course on race, gender and religion in the country. WMNST 497A (AF AM 497A) Race, Gender, and Religion in Cuba is offered jointly between African American studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies in the College of the Liberal Arts.
Not since the release of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movie “The Birds” has the campus been aflutter about endothermic vertebrates. Last semester, first-year biology students at Penn State New Kensington created a blog about birds native to the Republic of Cuba, the campus' country of focus.
Tomas Fernandez Robaina, the leading scholar on race in Cuba, will present a pair of talks at Penn State on Feb. 18. The first talk, "Race in Cuba: Past and Present" will take place during a brown-bag lunch event at 11:30 a.m. in 216 Willard Building, followed by a public talk titled "Afro-Cuban Music and Religion" at 5 p.m. in Foster Auditorium.
Penn State’s Dickinson Law has a long tradition of offering students embedded opportunities for foreign legal studies. This year, Dickinson Law continued that tradition with a new comparative international law course focusing on Cuba and the legal systems within.
In January, a group of Dickinson Law students accompanied Professor of Law Katherine Pearson to Cuba as part of an embedded opportunity for foreign legal studies. First-year law student Joy Lee shares her experience.
The Penn State All-Sports Museum’s Ellen Perry Speaker Series will host Rob Cooper, Penn State baseball head coach, and John Affleck, director of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism, at noon Jan. 20 as they share the highlights from Penn State baseball’s historic 2015 trip to Cuba.
Eight students from the College of Communications are embracing a working trip to Cuba during Penn State's Thanksgiving break. The students, members of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism, are following the Penn State baseball team during its historic trip to Cuba to play four games against Cuban National Series teams.
The Penn State baseball team’s trip to Cuba in November could be even more historic than initially anticipated, as the Nittany Lions are now slated to become the first United States team -- amateur or professional -- to compete against teams from the Cuban National Series, Cuba’s premier baseball league. Penn State is scheduled to play four games, including two in Havana against Industriales, widely considered the New York Yankees of Cuban baseball.
Penn State New Kensington brings the cultural experience of the Republic of Cuba to the campus community during the fall semester with food, discussion and entertainment. Cuba is this year’s “Country of Focus,” an annual yearlong campus celebration of international cultures. All events are free to the public.
For Belén Rodríguez Mourelo, author of "Encounters in Exile: Themes in the Narrative of the Cuban Diaspora," writing about Cuba is personal. The introduction to her book describes her grandfather’s experience in Cuba over a 40-year span, from 1912–1952.
The upcoming Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Colloquium will feature the current state of relations between Cuba and the United States. The colloquium will be held from 1 to 2:20 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, in Room 104 of the Franco Building.
The daughter of Cuban President Fidel Castro, Alina Fernandez, brings her personal story of growing up in Cuba to Penn State Harrisburg Tuesday, Oct. 6.
