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2019 Adult Learners Networking Event

A variety of events have been held in the past to celebrate during National Adult Learner/Nontraditional Learner Week, such as the networking event in 2019 pictured here, but this year’s virtual format offered organizers the opportunity to to collate all the events to better support each other and their students. 

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University urges COVID-19 testing for students prior to returning home

In preparation for the departure from campuses after in-person instruction ends on Nov. 20, Penn State has announced an aggressive fall departure plan offering all students COVID-19 testing, at no cost to students. Penn State is partnering with Vault Health for departure testing, which will be conducted either in person at predetermined testing sites on certain campuses or via self-administered test kits. Students can now book their appointment to receive an administered test or to pick up a self-test by using the Return Home Event on the Penn State Go App or by visiting virusinfo.psu.edu/departure-testing.
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Schuylkill professor’s poetry book explores intersection of humans, environment

For Art Zilleruelo, assistant teaching professor of English, poetry is both a highly demanding technical practice and a primordial expression of the human relationship to the natural world. In his latest collection of poems, “Toothsome” (Spartan Press, 2020), Zilleruelo crafts an ageless, instinctive language to communicate the unease, anxiety, and alienation of the modern world.