Penn State Schuylkill announced today that it has been designated a 2016 Military Friendly® School for the fourth consecutive year by Victory Media, the leader in successfully connecting the military and civilian worlds.
The community at Penn State Schuylkill created a garden this past summer with funding received in 2014 from the Penn State Sustainability Institute Reinvention Fund, the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses, and the Campus Research and Scholarship Award from the Schuylkill Campus Advisory Board. The garden, part of the campus sustainability program Envision, Plan, Implement, Change, Sustain (EPICS), is available for campus and public use.
In the dating game, jealousy is a natural emotion, right? Cory Scherer would argue it's different for various sectors of the population, and he's done the research to prove it.
Cory Scherer, an associate professor of psychology at Penn State Schuylkill, has conducted evolutionary-based research on sex differences in jealousy with regard to emotional versus sexual infidelity. He will discuss this research and present findings on why widowers are at an advantage with regard to dating when the Colloquium Series in Psychological Sciences and Human Behavior returns to Penn State Behrend Oct. 21.
J. Bertolet Volkswagen, Mrs. T's Pierogies, and Pottsville Broadcasting partnered with members of the Penn State Schuylkill THON organization to host their inaugural Tug-a-Bug event. The event was held in support of the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON), which benefits the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the fight against pediatric cancer.
Harmut Heep, Ph.D., associate professor of German and comparative literature at Penn State Schuylkill, was invited by the Comparative Literature Research Group at the University of Mauritius in Reduit Mauritius, to conduct a workshop titled, "Comparative literature in the time of multiculturalism."
Charles Cantalupo, Distinguished Professor of English, comparative literature and African studies, spent years traveling to and researching the cities where one of America’s all-time greatest writers, Edgar Allan Poe, lived throughout his life. On June 4, he performed for the first time the entire sequence of his poems on where Poe lived, called “Poe in Place.”
Charles Cantalupo, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies, spent years traveling to and researching the cities where one of America's all-time greatest writers, Edgar Allan Poe, lived throughout his life.
Writing about each of these cities - including Baltimore, the Bronx, Philadelphia and Richmond - Cantalupo juxtaposes how they appeared in Poe's time and now. The poems also closely focus on any evidence of Poe that still remains in each place, including excerpts from his writing when he lived there.
Robert Stickloon, instructor in art at Penn State Schuylkill, will have two pieces of his work displayed at the 48th Annual Art of the State® juried competition. The opening of the event will be held June 28 at the State Museum of Pennsylvania which is recognized as the official, statewide juried competition for Pennsylvania artists. This year's show includes 127 pieces from 123 artists that jurors selected from five categories: Craft, Painting, Photography, Sculpture and Work on Paper.
