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.
A record 186 companies attended Penn State Behrend's Spring Career and Internship Fair, held March 20 in the college’s Junker Center. Nearly 750 students attended the event, which was sponsored by the Academic and Career Planning Center.
This episode of the Quickcast looks at a settlement with the former Second Mile charity, efforts by the Lion's Pantry to help feed needy students and the return of the Penn State Berkey Creamery's Flavor Madness event.
Presentations on 3D animation, virtual reality and augmented reality, as well as musical performances and a slow-motion video booth, will all be offered March 25-26 during the fourth-annual Digital Media Festival at Penn State Behrend.
From “honeycombs” made with bright yellow boxes of Bisquick pancake mix and Lipton tea to a “castle” created with boxes of crackers and cereal, Penn State Brandywine students were up to the challenge to design and build structures along a sustainability theme in this year’s Un-Canny Competition.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Elizabeth C. Strauss, assistant professor of history at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, at noon on March 28 in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center. Strauss will present “And Tomorrow Death Will Come: Individual and Collective Aging in the Łódź Ghetto, 1939-1944.”
Darren Williams, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, will discuss the Apollo 11 Mission and its historical significance, on Thursday, April 4, when Open House Night in Astronomy returns to Penn State Behrend. Following Williams’ talk, Jim Gavio, director of the college’s Yahn Planetarium, will outline future plans for lunar exploration.
Students and administrators from Penn State Beaver, Greater Allegheny and New Kensington traveled to the Pennsylvania Capitol for Penn State Capital Day on March 20, 2019.
Penn State alumnus Jay Yonamine, head of data science and global patents at Google, will deliver a public lecture titled “A History of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning” at 11:15 a.m. on Friday, March 29, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium.
Penn State Centre Stage will launch its return to professional summer theatre with "One Night on Broadway," a special benefit event, on May 20 at the Penn State Downtown Theatre. The evening will include wine, hors d'oeuvres, desserts, and current Broadway/Penn State alumni performers, featuring Matthew Hydzik ("The Cher Show"), Allyson Kaye Daniel ("Elf, the Musical"), Ryan Vona ("Once"), Natalie Weiss ("Les Misérables"), Alan Wiggins ("Beautiful"), and more.
Monica Popescu, associate professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literature at McGill University, will present “Mythologies of Realism and Modernism: African Literature and the Cold War” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, March 25, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.
This week's cultural highlights include the return of the Maple Harvest Festival, "Saturday Night Live" comedian Michael Che at Penn State Behrend, the Alumni Association's City Lights in Philadelphia event and a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Three Mile Island at Penn State Harrisburg.
Registration is still open for the 2019 Powerful Women Paving the Way Conference, scheduled for April 11-12 at the Nittany Lion Inn on Penn State's University Park campus. The event, which is hosted by the Penn State Smeal College of Business and its student-run Women in Business Organization, will commemorate its 11th year with engaging speakers and valuable networking opportunities.
Thirteen students from three campuses observed National Nutrition Month in a fitting way: traveling to Honduras for a spring break service learning trip through Healthy Niños Honduras, a Pennsylvania-based organization that focuses on helping children with malnutrition.
Registration is now open for Lavender Graduation, a ceremony which celebrates the achievements of undergraduate, graduate and professional students in the LGBTQ+ community from all Penn State campuses.
