If Alexia Hudson ever wants to become a stylist, she had better hope potential employers don't delve too deeply into her online identity. Why? Because her digital footprint reveals participation in some of the great fashion crimes of the 1990s.
There isn't anything inappropriate in the image, which a college friend had innocently posted on Facebook. But Hudson, a reference librarian at Penn State Abington, showed it to illustrate to a group of first-semester students that their online identities can't be erased and can impact their lives for years to come.
The public is invited to Penn State Abington for the fall 2012 Out of the Box film series, which highlights the struggles and sacrifice for social justice in Latin America. Karen Bettez Halnon, associate professor of sociology at Abington, will moderate the screenings and discussions, which are a component of the upper-level seminar course, Liberation Theology (Sociology 497).
Paintings by Emily Steinberg, lecturer in art at Penn State Abington, are being exhibited through Oct. 27 in the historic Philadelphia Crane Arts Building.
Cherry blossom trees, an icon of the friendship between Japan and the United States, also are a fitting symbol for a relationship that bloomed decades ago and whose roots grow stronger each year between Penn State Abington and Seinan Gakuin University in Japan. This friendship culminated in an English immersion course that recently brought 12 Seinan students halfway around the world to Abington for two weeks of learning and international exchange.
City Rhythm Orchestra & Ray Gelato will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 5, at Penn State Abington. The 15-piece big band will present "Jump, Jive & Wail" with vocals by Steve Ritrovato and Vicki Woodlyn. Popular European singer-saxophonist Ray Gelato also will perform with the band.
Penn State Abington has earned a place on the 2013 Military Friendly Schools list, which honors institutions that provide a supportive environment for service members, veterans, and spouses as students to achieve academic success.
Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas has reported for some of the most prestigious news organizations in the country, winning a Pulitzer Prize before the age of 30. But the most fascinating story he didn't tell for more than a decade was that of his double life as an undocumented immigrant. He will speak at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, in Lubert Commons at the Lares Student Union Building on campus.
Penn State's fall 2012 Student Town Hall Forum is scheduled for 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 19, in the HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium on the University Park campus.
The event, sponsored by the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments (CCSG), the Graduate Student Association (GSA) and the University Park Undergraduate Association, provides students an opportunity to openly discuss the future of Penn State with Penn State administrators. It also will be streamed live online for those at the campuses at http://wpsu.org/live.
There once was an intelligent, ambitious 10th-grader who was so certain she wanted to attend Penn State that her family relocated from sunny Miami to suburban Philadelphia so she could live closer to the college of her dreams. Four years later, Ewinka Romulus is living her dream at Penn State Abington and, courtesy of philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates, without the expenses normally associated with higher education.
Book groups have existed in various forms for years, meeting in coffee shops, homes and online. But without a skilled moderator, they can suffer from a narrow focus, with discussion limited to prepared questions pulled from a publisher's website. Now the lens on the book club concept is being thrown wide open by the thoughtful and thought-provoking Karen Weekes, associate professor of English at Penn State Abington and the new leader of the book club at the township library.