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Adriana Vagelli

Cemetery excavation inspires Abington student's Schreyer thesis

Adriana Vagelli was watching a story unfold on a local television newscast. “It was about graves from an old cemetery accidentally being dug up in Old City (Philadelphia),” the Penn State Abington senior said. “They wanted to identify the people who were buried there. I was interested and wanted to get involved.”
Folger Shakespeare Library

Abington students dig into history at Shakespeare library

A group of Penn State Abington students examined rare materials and discussed research with renowned scholars recently at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., which houses the world’s largest collection of the works of William Shakespeare and is the premier site to research the culture of Shakespeare’s England.