The People’s Kitchen, led by Penn State Center Philadelphia and other Penn State partners, has received the 2021 Penn State Award for Community Engagement and Scholarship. The effort is led by Shivaani Selvaraj, director, and Carly Pourzand, community engagement specialist, both at Penn State Center Philadelphia.
A documentary co-written by Penn State Brandywine Adjunct Instructor in English Mary McDermott about the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide will air on Philadelphia’s public broadcasting station WHYY at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 8.
Laura Guertin, professor of Earth science at Penn State Brandywine, recently received the 2020 Journal of Geoscience Education Outstanding Reviewer Award. Each year, the national honor recognizes the work of the journal’s top peer reviewer in assessing articles submitted to the publication.
Margaret “Peggy” Signorella, distinguished professor of psychology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies, has been awarded the Sue Rosenberg Zalk Award for Distinguished Service for the Society for the Psychology of Women from the American Psychological Association.
Penn State Brandywine faculty members Timothy Lawlor, associate professor of physics and astrophysics, and Timothy Niiler, associate teaching professor of physics, recently published a paper titled “Physics Textbooks from 1960–2016: A History of Gender and Racial Bias."
Joshua Phillips, assistant teaching professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State Brandywine, recently wrote a chapter for “Like Wildfire: The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-Ins.”
Penn State Brandywine has announced its annual faculty awards, which recognize the achievements and excellence of campus faculty as educators, researchers and mentors.
Laura Guertin, professor of earth science at Penn State Brandywine, has been awarded the 2020 President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration.
Each year, Penn State recognizes outstanding faculty and staff with annual awards in teaching and excellence. These awards highlight many of the faculty and staff who go above and beyond.
Penn State and National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) have announced the awardees for the 2019 Joint Collaboration Development Fund. Seven projects were chosen for funding, in a variety of disciplines, from math education to geosciences to information sciences and technology.
