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.
“Sin título (El tiempo pasa y nada cambia no1)” is one of the works featured in Panamanian artist Giana De Dier’s pop-up exhibit "El tiempo pasa y nada cambia" ("Time passes, and nothing changes"). The exhibit, which honors the lives of Afro-Caribbean women who supported their families and communities during the construction of the Panama Canal, will be on display at Pattee Library on the University Park campus Feb. 24 and 25 and at Robert E. Eiche Library on Penn State Altoona campus Feb. 27 and 28.
“Sin título (El tiempo pasa y nada cambia no1)” is one of the works featured in Panamanian artist Giana De Dier’s pop-up exhibit "El tiempo pasa y nada cambia" ("Time passes, and nothing changes"). The exhibit, which honors the lives of Afro-Caribbean women who supported their families and communities during the construction of the Panama Canal, will be on display at Pattee Library on the University Park campus Feb. 24 and 25 and at Robert E. Eiche Library on Penn State Altoona campus Feb. 27 and 28.
