A professor at Penn State Abington and an advocate for battling the stigma surrounding mental illness, substance use, addiction and vulnerable populations are the driving force behind the Oct. 12 performance of This Is My Brave - The Show at Penn State Abington. It features original performances by community members who have suffered from the impact of stigma.
Andrew August, vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of history at Penn State Abington, will serve as the campus' interim chancellor during the search for a successor to Margo DelliCarpini, who has been appointed Penn State's vice president for Commonwealth Campuses and executive chancellor.
Margo DelliCarpini, chancellor and dean of Penn State Abington, has been named vice president for Commonwealth Campuses and executive chancellor, effective Oct. 1.
The Penn State Abington campus community marked Constitution Day with an event featuring speaker Nina Ahmad, president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Organization for Women, who encouraged students to learn about the issues, vote, and lift others through the process.
Penn State Abington students enrolled in a collaborative course at a Bucks County working history museum spent the spring semester immersed with working artisans and developing skills that have led to internships and jobs. Their work also resulted in a new exhibition in the Penn State Abington art gallery.
Saul Flores, the son of undocumented immigrants who walked 5,000 miles from Latin America to North Carolina, told Penn State Abington students that discovering the community they were meant to serve can lead to immense change.
Zhanel DeVides, assistant professor of accounting at Penn State Abington, is in Finland this semester researching how the gender of corporate executives influences market expectations for future earnings.
The Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program selected Friederike Baer, a faculty member and administrator at Penn State Abington, as a 2023-24 fellow based on her demonstrated exceptional abilities and promise.
From mid-September through the end of October, Penn State units at campuses across the commonwealth will be holding events in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. This year's overall theme is "Nuestra Comunidad Latina: Celebrating a Thriving Community."
At the end of the spring 2023 semester, six Penn State Commonwealth Campuses named faculty members as Open Champions, recognizing their work with open education in the second year of Penn State’s Open and Affordable Educational Resources (OAER) Champion Awards. A collaboration between Penn State University Libraries and the University-wide OAER Working Group, the OAER Champion Award began as a pilot initiative in 2022 and seeks to recognize excellence, innovation and impact in open educational practices at Penn State campuses.
