Inc. magazine named Steve Hynes' firm MRO to its Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in America last year. He gives back to Penn State Abington by helping prepare students for careers through businesses challenges.
Manohar Singh, division head for social sciences at Penn State Abington, and Steve Hynes '90, CEO of MRO, discuss plans for the business degree. MRO employees voted to name conference rooms in honors of the company's location near Valley Forge National Historical Park. This room is called Washington's Headquarters.
Art is fundamentally a form of intellectual and imaginative inquiry so the Bertha Lear art exhibition always kicks off undergraduate research week at Penn State Abington. Meet the 2016 Lear award winners and explore their art practice through faculty commentary.
The 10th Bertha Lear Art Exhibition features sculpture, painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, printmaking and new media, as well as multimedia and Interdisciplinary projects. Penn State Abington students compete for prizes, and one piece is added to the campus' permanent collection. The public is welcome to visit the exhibition throughout the month of April in the campus art gallery.
Puff, raku-fired ceramic. As the recipient of the Purchase Award, one of Hailey Salamone's pieces will be permanently added to the Dean's Abington College Art Collection. Faculty praise her concept, execution, and depth. Hailey expresses her own notions of self, from a place of strength and deep sensitivity.
Untitled, drypoint etching with gouache. Faculty honored Jackie Lanning for her body of work, which includes interest in art and anthropology. She utilizes printmaking, video (new media), sculpture, and installation. Jackie's explorations are evolving and are increasingly more personal and unique.
Lear Honorable Mention Trish Grow, Icarus (amnesty). The Icarus project, as does much of her work, uses her strengths in both visual and word images. In amnesty, she marries these dualities through fragmentation, both of the body and the wings, with mounting pins. Trish is an English major, waiting for the art minor to appear... .
