The public is invited to Penn State Abington on Feb. 27 for two lectures highlighting a faculty member's new book on the practice of imaginative literature in the early modern period and a visiting professor's work on satire.
The book by Kurt Fowler, assistant professor of criminal justice at Penn State Abington, uses narrative criminology to provide an intimate look into the changing face of the sex industry.
Christina Riehman-Murphy, the Sally W. Kalin Librarian for Learning Innovations and the open and affordable educational resources librarian at Penn State University Libraries, has been named visiting program officer for open educational leadership at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a newly created role in which she will serve part time for the next year. Riehman-Murphy is based at Penn State Abington.
Penn State Abington instructor Julia Clift's vision features sound and visual artists, scientists, and an ensemble who shed light on the policies, conventions, and attitudes that led to and sustain the climate crisis.
Zhanel DeVides, assistant professor of accounting at Penn State Abington, is in Finland this semester researching how the gender of corporate executives influences market expectations for future earnings.
The Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program selected Friederike Baer, a faculty member and administrator at Penn State Abington, as a 2023-24 fellow based on her demonstrated exceptional abilities and promise.
At the end of the spring 2023 semester, six Penn State Commonwealth Campuses named faculty members as Open Champions, recognizing their work with open education in the second year of Penn State’s Open and Affordable Educational Resources (OAER) Champion Awards. A collaboration between Penn State University Libraries and the University-wide OAER Working Group, the OAER Champion Award began as a pilot initiative in 2022 and seeks to recognize excellence, innovation and impact in open educational practices at Penn State campuses.
Friederike Baer, an associate professor of history at Penn State Abington, was honored with the Society of the Cincinnati Prize for advancing understanding of the American Revolution and its legacy through her book “Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.”
