Jared Yates Sexton will read excerpts from both his nonfiction book and fiction works on Thursday, Sept. 6, when he visits Penn State Behrend to open the college’s Creative Writers Reading Series. We caught up with him in advance of his visit to discuss his newfound fame and how he’s juggling the writing of both fiction and nonfiction on a regular basis.
Jennifer Rubin, author of The Washington Post's Right Turn blog, will visit University Park for a talk on the role of a free press in the Trump administration. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. Nov. 8 in 104 Keller Building.
Presidential ideologies will be explored Monday, Oct. 30, when the lecture “Bush, Obama, and Trump on the Reformation and the Mission of America” highlights the return of the Institute on the American Dream Series to Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
The University is examining the impact of a recent proclamation by President Donald Trump that will add new procedures for visitors to the United States from eight countries.
Penn State psychologists say that presidential candidates can use the same words, but can mean something completely different. They say the gap between words and meaning has never been this big — and that this gap is growing. They used computer algorithms to examine how presidential candidates' used words together — word association — in speeches and debates since 1999 to help determine the meaning of those words in the minds of the candidates. The researchers were also able to use algorithms to predict a person's political leanings and party affiliation based on their word associations.
The theme of the two-week seminar in D.C. was civil discourse, and it was an extension of the fall American studies course that utilized the biographies of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Penn State Law will host a live webinar from noon to 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 featuring some of the country’s leading mergers and acquisitions attorneys examining how the new Trump Administration might impact the laws and regulations relating to mergers and acquisitions.
Penn State Law professor Samuel C. Thompson Jr. will present three special lectures on Oct. 24, Oct. 31 and Nov. 7 to provide voters with an overview of Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s varying economic policy proposals.
