Penn State University Libraries invites creative Penn State students, faculty and staff to submit their best circus-themed creative writing to the short stories “A Night at the Circus”-themed writing contest, open for submissions Monday, March 1, through Friday, April 2.
Penn State Abington music students performed an in their concert clothes, distanced and masked, in the Woodland Building parking lot. Their audience for this "moment of community"? Themselves, and a handful of people in cars who were picking up students.
Sundance Award-winning filmmakers Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera will participate in a discussion after an online screening of their film "The Infiltrators" at 6:30 p.m. this Friday, October 9, open to all campuses and their communities. The event is co-presented by the Latina/o Studies Program and Penn State’s Sustainability Institute as part of the "Intersections: How We Respond" film series and Penn State’s Hispanic Heritage Month. Attendees can sign up at: intersections.391774.com/the-infiltrators.
Six Penn State student startup companies will compete for a share of $30,000 in seed money during the broadcast of a "Shark Tank"-style show airing Aug. 5 on WPSU.
Penn State’s Eberly Family Special Collections Library has teamed up with Special Collections at Monash University for a unique rare recipe baking challenge, and we need your participation to help Penn State win The Great Rare Books Bake Off! The bake off will run from July 20-24 and you can find all of the recipes and details for the contest on the competition website at http://sites.391774.com/greatrarebooksbakeoff/.
Image of one of eight rare cookbook recipes featured in the Great Rare Books Bake Off, "To Make a Lemon Tart" is from a cookbook compiled in Camberwell, Surrey between 1770 and 1846, p. 61. Purchased with funds from the James Milholland Rare Books Endowment, 2019.Eberly Family Special Collection Library, Penn State University
"Beautiful Sponge Pudding" from the Berrambool cookbook, which originated from a small town down in Victoria, Australia circa 1915.Special Collections, Monash University
For the past three years, WPSU, Penn State University Park’s local NPR and PBS affiliate station, and the Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP) have collaborated to host the statewide Inc.U undergraduate student startup competition. The competition culminates in the six finalists competing head-to-head on the live “Shark Tank-style” TV show, "The Investment."
