As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 20 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
Shihui Shen, professor of rail transportation engineering, has been conferred the status of distinguished professor, the highest professorial merit at the University. Shen is a leading scholar in railroad and highway infrastructure and materials.
The Office of Faculty Affairs has named 10 distinguished professors for 2025. The title recognizes outstanding academic contribution to the University.
Erin Murphy, professor of English, was the featured guest recently on the “Writers Association of Northern Appalachia” podcast. She also presented a reading as part of the Hometown Voices series and was featured in two literary journals.
Harriett Gaston will present “Bedford, Blair, and Centre County African American Historians: The 19th Century to the 21st Century” at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17, in the Pond View Lounge of the Slep Student Center.
Brian Onishi, associate professor of philosophy, and Jeff Stoyanoff, assistant professor of English and women's, gender and sexuality studies, released a new episode of their podcast, "Horror Joy." In "Severance, Liminality, and Analog Horror," the hosts traverse the eerie corridors of liminality in horror.
Penn State University Libraries will feature a pop-up exhibit of prints from "El tiempo pasa y nada cambia" ("Time passes, and nothing changes") by Panamanian artist Giana De Dier on Feb. 24-25 in the lobby of the Pattee Library mall entrance. The exhibit honors the lives of Afro-Caribbean women who supported their families and communities during the construction of the Panama Canal. It will then travel to Penn State Altoona to be hosted in the Robert E. Eiche Library on Feb. 27-28.
Penn State Altoona setter Mason Grover, of Penfield, New York, was announced as the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Offensive Player of the Week in men’s volleyball on Feb. 10.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, will read from her works and offer a poetry workshop for the Friends of the Roethke Foundation’s 2025 Poets Laureate Series.
"How Else Can I Tell You," a body of work by Sophie Brenneman, will be on display from Feb. 13 through April 3 in the Sheetz Gallery of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
