Penn State Greater Allegheny held its 30th annual Honors Convocation at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in the Wunderley Gymnasium on campus. Chancellor Curtiss E. Porter presided. Nearly 100 Penn State Greater Allegheny students received awards for academic achievement and leadership.
ABSENCE: Penn State Greater Allegheny's Literary & Visual Art Review announces its 2013 "Celebration of the Arts: A Reading & Reception for Volume 15," from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center, with a 6 p.m. kickoff by the Campus Band.
As part of this year's Teaching International focus on the Celtic nations, professor of theatre arts Jay Breckenridge's Theatre 208 class will present "Merlin in the Middle: Of the King Arthur Legend" at 7:30 p.m. April 25 to 27, in the Fitness and Cultural Center. The working script includes the appearance of a Druid Chorus to take the audience back in time to the sixth and seventh centuries, when the events of Arthur's and Merlin's story "really" took place.
Dr. Verónica Montecinos, professor of sociology at Penn State Greater Allegheny, has received the Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching. She also was named a 2013 Penn State Teaching Fellow.
Julia Spicher Kasdorf, professor of English and women's studies in the College of the Liberal Arts; Veronica Montecinos, professor of sociology at Penn State Greater Allegheny, and Jeffery Sharp, associate professor of business law in the Smeal College of Business, have received the Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching and have been named 2013 Penn State Teaching Fellows.
