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WPSU year in review

7/23/18

Tracey Huston, vice president for outreach, presented a video year in review of the various video projects WPSU has been involved in over the 2017-18 academic year during the Board of Trustees meeting July 19 and 20 at Penn State Berks campus.

Bulldozer Helps Out, cover art

2018 'A Baker’s Dozen: The Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy' announced

7/17/18

"A Baker’s Dozen: The Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy" for 2018 has been announced by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. The annual booklist, celebrating its 15th edition this year, is compiled by a panel of children’s literature experts who choose from among the many children’s books published in each calendar year.

Ellie Milewski

Fine arts acting student produces staged reading of her own full-length play

7/17/18

Ellie Milewski, a junior in Penn State’s bachelor of fine arts acting program, made waves this past February when she, in collaboration with the Penn State School of Theatre, produced a staged reading of her first full-length play. The play, titled "27," tells the story of an unlikely friendship between an elderly man dying of Alzheimer’s and a 10-year-old girl struggling with dyslexia.

Mimi Barash Coppersmith talks with Marie Hardin

Lunch with Mimi

7/16/18

Marie Hardin, dean of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, chats with Mimi Barash Coppersmith about her new memoir, "Eat First, Cry Later." Barash Coppersmith founded Town & Gown magazine, was the first woman elected chair of the Penn State Board of Trustees, was honored by the University as the Renaissance Person of the Year, and was named a Distinguished Alumna of Penn State.

2018 Arts Festival Poser

The economic impact of the arts spreads beyond Arts Fest

7/12/18

The 2018 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is in full swing, and as more than 100,000 visitors inject millions of dollars into the local economy, Erin Coe, director of the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, said she hopes the county’s showcase arts event acts as a reminder that “the arts mean business.”

Dan Marriott, global expert on historic roads and professor of landscape architecture at Penn State University

Q&A with Dan Marriott, featured on PBS episode '10 Streets That Changed America'

7/10/18

Dan Marriott, Penn State alumnus, Stuckeman School visiting assistant professor of landscape architecture, and international expert on historic roads, was an adviser to and is featured in the PBS episode, “10 Streets That Changed America.” The episode aired on PBS on Tuesday, July 10. Stuckeman School writer Christiana Usenza had a chance to interview Marriott about his work on the episode.

Docunight: Exilic Trilogy flyer, July 2018

Docunight film screening to be presented during alternate date in July

6/27/18

International film buffs and individuals interested in films created in or about Iran have been gathering on the first Wednesday of each month for more than a year for "Docunight: Iran Via Documentaries" film screenings. This month, however, due to holiday hours of operation, the film will be shown one week later at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 11, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, on the University Park Campus.

Hall of the Bulls in Altamira Cave in Spain

Create your own prehistoric paintings at Penn State's Arts Festival booth

6/26/18

Penn State’s “Art of Discovery” booth will feature a hands-on, family-friendly demonstration of how early humans made the paints that still adorn cave walls around the world — offering festival-goers the chance to create their own artwork from their own handmade paint between 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 14.

Denice Wardrop

Explore the impacts of plastics through art at Arts Festival

6/25/18

Denice Wardrop, as a follow up to the Palmer Museum of Art’s record-breaking "Plastic Entanglements" exhibition, will join Penn State’s Art of Discovery booth at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 14, to examine humanity's relationship with plastics, its usage in art, and both its benefits and its consequences.

zombie antz

An invisible world: Explore the life of 'Zombie Ants' at the Arts Festival

6/25/18

“The Zombie Ant Experience,” which details the strange process by which a parasitic fungus infects and takes over the bodies of ants, will be on display Penn State’s “Art of Discovery” booth at the Arts Festival from 11 to 1 p.m on Friday, July 13. “We’re pulling back the curtain on an invisible world that’s happening around you all the time," said Daryl Branford in the Huck Institute of the Life Sciences.

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