Research Unplugged, the popular series of stimulating conversation with Penn State researchers, is presented in collaboration with Penn State’s Office of Government and Community Relations and will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. each Thursday in October in Schlow Library’s Downsbrough Community Room.
Penn State alumnus Roger Williams will offer a talk based on his new book, “Evan Pugh’s Penn State: America’s Model Agricultural College,” at 3:30 p.m. April 24 in Foster Auditorium, located in 103 Paterno Library at University Park.
On Wednesday, March 21, the Penn State Shenango Alumni Society and the Lawrence County Alumni Chapter invite the public to hear Distinguished Alumnus Roger L. Williams present an illustrated talk on “Evan Pugh’s Penn State” at 5:30 p.m. in the Shenango campus Auditorium, located on Shenango Avenue in downtown Sharon. The event is free and open to the public.
Penn State students who earn their degrees online have a new way to connect with their fellow graduates across the University community through the new Penn State World Campus Alumni Society. The alumni society, with 4,200 charter members, will hold its first activity, an online networking event, on Nov. 12.
Roger Williams, executive director of the Penn State Alumni Association, penned the following column for the February 2012 issue of Alumni Insider, an e-newsletter for Alumni Association members. In his column, he addresses campus and community concerns about State Patty's Day and notes the actions that Penn State students, with the Alumni Association and other campus and State College community leaders, are taking to coordinate a "wide range of interventions."
Five major issues are challenging America's land-grant universities, according to Penn State President Graham Spanier and echoed by conference leaders and presenters at The Legacy and the Promise: 150 Years of Land-Grant Universities, which concluded June 24 at Penn State. As land-grant institutions review their collective history to prepare for the 150th anniversary in 2012 of the Morrill Land-Grant College Act, they also address questions of weakening state support as well as varying interpretations of the land-grant mission.
American land-grant colleges and universities -- beneficiaries of the federal Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862 -- are turning their attention to the transformational legislation as its 150th anniversary approaches in 2012. Penn State is initiating the conversation June 22-24 by hosting a national conference focused on land-grant universities' history and impact.
Alumni, Roger Williams and Karen Magnuson, have made provisions in their estate to support the Higher Education program in the College of Education. Williams and Magnuson can often be seen on the University Park campus. He is the executive director of the Penn State Alumni Association and she is the assistant director of University Publications and manager of the University Editor Representative System.
