May 2012
May 08 2012
Biodiversity hot spots -- the world's biologically richest and most threatened locations on Earth -- and high biodiversity wilderness areas -- biologically rich but less threatened -- are some of the...
May 04 2012
Pianist Christopher Guzman, assistant professor of music, recently won the Grand Prize and four special prizes in the 10th Concours International de Piano d'Orléans, one of the most exciting and prest...
May 04 2012
Penn State Stuckeman School Professor Madis Pihlak and Yale Architecture Professor Peggy Deamer have published "Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the Impact on Design Quality" in the Journal of...
May 03 2012
A group of Penn State Architecture students in the “Secret Life of Public Spaces Studio” spent the year building machines in collaboration with renowned Los Angeles-based Diavolo Dance Theater, which...
May 03 2012
Dean Barbara Korner spoke at the College of Engineering’s Design Showcase Industry Partners Dinner on April 26, 2012, addressing the importance of “playing together” with designers from different disc...
May 02 2012
Kevin Paulsen (’10 B.A. Theatre–Stage Management) shares his experiences working on Disney Cruise Lines’ newest ship, the Disney Fantasy.
Some may call it a cliché, but working for Disney is full of “...
May 02 2012
The Committee on Multiethnic Concerns (COMC), an affiliate organization of the National Art Education Association, has established an annual lecture series titled the "Grace Hampton Lecture Series." N...
May 01 2012
The word “archiving” often evokes images of a life or event recorded on paper, stuffed into a box to languish on a dusty shelf in a subterranean level of a library, unvisited and forgotten. The new ag...
Apr 2012
Apr 27 2012
The Rust Belt brings to mind images of hulking, dilapidated factories where large-scale manufacturing once flourished. In the mind of Syracuse University architecture professor Julia Czerniak (’84 B.S...
Apr 27 2012
For Suzan Frecon (’63 B.F.A. Painting), being an artist is much more than a profession or career.
“For me, painting is a field of knowledge that evolves by spending much time and infinite practice on...
Apr 27 2012
Nancy and Eric Goshow’s list of desirable qualities in an architect sounds a bit like a dating profile: honest, open to new things, well-rounded, and well-spoken, to name a few.
That’s because the tec...
Apr 27 2012
Samantha Josaphat, a fifth-year architecture student from Georgia, will graduate Penn State with more than $100,000 in student loans.
Without the luxury of a safety net—her mom was taking out her own...
Apr 26 2012
Scott Patt (’93 B.A. Graphic Design) enrolled at Penn State thinking he might become an orthopedic surgeon. A few years later, he found himself halfway around the globe, contemplating the study of Rus...
Apr 26 2012
When embarking on a career in art history, the possible focus areas are endless. Catherine Jolivette (’03 Ph.D. Art History), a native of Great Britain, chose to return to her roots. Today she focuses...
Apr 26 2012
For almost 300 years, the lirone was not heard. A multi-stringed, cello-like instrument invented by Atalante Migliorotti in 1505, the lirone’s eerie, otherworldly sound was popular for more than 200 y...
Apr 26 2012
It was the summer of 1978. High school student Scott Edmiston (’83 B.F.A. Theatre) was visiting Penn State and decided to see the University’s production of Candide. By the time he exited the Playhous...
Apr 25 2012
Kikora Franklin, assistant professor of theatre and dance, was one of six recipients of Penn State's George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching. She was honored at the University's Faculty/St...
Apr 25 2012
Kikora Franklin, assistant professor of theatre and dance, was one of six recipients of Penn State's George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching. She was honored at the University's Faculty/St...
Apr 09 2012
Collaborative Creative Resistance is a workday-long public performance in response to the global water crisis, led by B. Stephen Carpenter II, professor of art education, with assistance from members...
Apr 05 2012
Craig Clunas, professor and head of the History of Art Department, and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford, will give a public lecture, “Looking at Looking at Chinese Paintings,” at 6:00 p...
Apr 05 2012
Christopher P. Staley, distinguished professor of art in the College of Arts and Architecture, has been named Penn State laureate for 2012-13, succeeding Linda Patterson Miller, professor of English a...
Apr 04 2012
Tom Leader, an illustrious landscape architect with more than three decades of industry experience, will give a talk titled “Recent Work” at 6 p.m. April 5 in 112 Forest Resources Building on the Penn...
Apr 04 2012
“Into Warmer Air,” created collaboratively by the dancers in the University Dance Company (UDC), under the direction of Elisha Clark Halpin, associate professor of dance, was selected to be performed...
Apr 04 2012
Mark Ballora, associate professor of music technology, has contributed sonifications of astronomical phenomena that serve as backing tracks on the upcoming album Mysterium Tremendum by the Mickey Hart...
Apr 03 2012
Penn State University Libraries will host the world premiere of 217 Films’ new documentary on Lynd Ward (1905–1985), the father of the American graphic novel and one of the most prolific book illustra...
Apr 02 2012
Three voice students from the School of Music received honors at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Eastern Region Conference and Student Auditions, held in West Chester, March 2-4...
Mar 2012
Mar 29 2012
Bruce W. Ferguson, Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, American University in Cairo, will give a series of public lectures as the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Visiti...
Mar 29 2012
Emily Schiller, Ph.D. candidate in art history, has been awarded a Robert Lehman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship at the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, Stockbridge, Mass. The money wil...
Mar 29 2012
Penn State Centre Stage will present Gizmo, April 10 thru 21, at the Playhouse Theatre, on the University Park campus.
When machines do everything for us, what will we do with ourselves?
And as o...
Mar 29 2012
"Cross Currents," a multimedia concert, will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 14, in the Stuckeman Family Building's Forum North space (on floors three and four). The performance will be free and...
Mar 28 2012
Christopher Schulte, graduate student in art education, is one of ten Penn State students to receive a 2012 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Oustanding Teaching Award, awarded by the Office of the...
Mar 27 2012
Andrea Zittel, a provocative conceptual artist and founder of A-Z Administrative Services, will present her work March 28 at 6 p.m. in the Stuckeman Building jury space. She is the headline speaker fo...
Mar 26 2012
Phillip Wagoner, professor of art history and chair of the archaeology program, Wesleyan University, will give a public lecture, “Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau...
Mar 26 2012
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, renowned for making exceptional music that crosses eras and genres, performs classical, jazz and Spanish Renaissance selections in concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 2...
Mar 26 2012
Penn State’s Center for the Performing Arts, faculty and students in two Penn State colleges and Los Angeles dance theater Diavolo have been collaborating for 18 months on a Creative Campus Innovation...
Mar 23 2012
THE PACT, a new romantic comedy written, produced and directed by Penn State professor and local filmmaker Matt Toronto, will be screened at the State Theatre in downtown State College, Pa., from Marc...
Mar 23 2012
THE PACT, a new romantic comedy written, produced and directed by Penn State professor and local filmmaker Matt Toronto, will be screened at the State Theatre in downtown State College, Pa., from Marc...
Mar 23 2012
The College of Arts and Architecture, with the Center for the Performing Arts, School of Music and School of Theatre, will present Leonard Bernstein MASS, a theatre piece for singers, players and danc...
Mar 23 2012
The Reuben and Gladys Golumbic Scholarship was established in 1978 by Ed Eckl, a Penn State chemistry alumnus, in memory of his adoptive parents. The prestigious scholarship is awarded to three studen...
Mar 23 2012
The College of Arts and Architecture will honor alumni, faculty, staff and students at its annual awards ceremony on Friday, March 30. The ceremony, open to the public, will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Esbe...
Mar 23 2012
"Seeing to Sketching to Painting: Bea Card Kettlewood Works" is on display in the Special Collections Library from March 16 to June 22, 2012. This Penn State University Archives exhibition documents t...
Mar 22 2012
Penn State Landscape Architecture faculty member Brian Orland was recently honored at both the national and University levels for his teaching, research and contributions to landscape architecture edu...
Mar 22 2012
New York artist Stephanie Diamond will give a free public lecture, “Key Note Seeker,” at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 27, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State Unive...
Mar 22 2012
When Diavolo dance theater of Los Angeles performs the world premiere of Transit Space at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Eisenhower Auditorium, a number of Penn State students will be in the audienc...
Mar 19 2012
Not all art education students want to teach in a traditional classroom, and not all art students want to work in a studio. One challenging yet rewarding career option is community-based art, which br...
Mar 19 2012
As part of the Music at Penn's Woods annual summer orchestral festival, the School of Music plans to form a choir, directed by Christopher Kiver, associate professor of music, to perform several works...
Mar 19 2012
Sean Burkholder, assistant professor of landscape architecture, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, along with New York architect Kyle May, received honorable mention in the A...
Mar 19 2012
The surest test of a good scientific theory or principle is to put it into practice. The discipline of landscape architecture, where the research of Landscape Architecture faculty members Tim Murtha a...
