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Interim architecture department head to retire after 35 years at Penn State



Dan Willis, interim department head and professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, is retiring June 30 after 35 years at Penn State.
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From Bach to Brass and Janáček to Jazz: Penn’s Woods Music Festival June 11-24



The Penn's Woods Music Festival kicks off on June 11 with the free Music in the Gardens concert, followed by chamber ensemble, jazz and Festival Orchestra concerts through June 24.
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The beat goes on: Forty years of percussion education at Penn State



The School of Music has been educating percussion students for 40 years.
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Architecture IUG student named undergraduate thesis award winner



Holly Zimmerman was named the winner of the Department of Architecture’s 2023 Paul M. Kossman Design Thesis Award for her project that focuses on designing the walls of a building
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School of Visual Arts shop staff create special award for students who bat it out of the park



Each semester for almost ten years, Matt Olson and Mark Rizzo have designed a special award for students who excel in their work in the School of Visual Arts shop.
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College announces recipients of the 2023 Golumbic and Valley Family Scholarships



The college awarded 10 Golumbic and Valley Family Scholarships.
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College announces 2023 Alumni Society Scholarships



This year the Alumni Society Board presented the scholarships in honor of Joyce Hoffman, longtime director of alumni relations, who recently retired.
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College announces spring 2023 faculty, staff and sustainability award winners



The awards reflect each recipient’s dedication to excellence inside and outside of the classroom.
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Alumni Spotlight: Faren Collins (’08 BFA Musical Theatre)



Allison Lee, past president of the Theatre Affiliate Program Group, interviews Musical Theatre alum Faren Collins, whose career has taken her from pageants to an MBA.
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Strategic city planning can help reduce urban heat island effect



New Penn State research suggests that certain urban factors can reduce the tendency of cities to trap heat — a phenomenon called the “urban heat island."
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Architecture graduate student’s thesis on urban public spaces receives award



Aysan Jafarzadeh was named the 2023 winner of the Department of Architecture’s Jawaid Haider Award for Design Excellence in Graduate Studies for her thesis.
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Stuckeman School student named national equity, diversity, inclusion scholar



Alexandria Warren, an incoming second-year landscape architecture student has been named a recipient of the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s LandDesign Equity, Diversity, and
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Millett and White to discuss “Ex-Utero” project at Paris symposium



Cristin Millett, professor of art in sculpture, and Cynthia White, ADRI adjunct research associate, will discuss their "Ex-Utero" project at a Paris symposium.
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Desai awarded Mellon fellowship to support South Asian architectural and history research



Desai's fellowship research is part of a larger project on the architectural and urban history of the Maratha Nagpur Kingdom during the eighteenth century.
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Climate justice design advocate named director of Stuckeman School



Chingwen Cheng, program head and associate professor of landscape architecture, urban design & environmental design at Arizona State, is the new director of the Stuckeman School.
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Nazarian presents “Concrete Glass Frontiers” at Taylor Lecture Symposium



UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Shadi Nazarian, associate research professor of architecture and a core researcher in the
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Landscape architecture students earn National Olmsted Scholar honors



UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Keith Faminiano, a Penn State graduate student who is pursuing his master of
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Stuckeman School students honored in Real Show 23 art competition



UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Three projects by Penn State graphic design students in the College of Arts
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A&A Staff Highlight: Gulick leads way toward sustainable future



Deb Gulick received the College of Arts and Architecture’s inaugural Staff Sustainability Award in April 2023.
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College of Arts and Architecture announces spring 2023 student marshals



The College of Arts and Architecture’s commencement ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. on May 6 in Eisenhower Auditorium and will be livestreamed.
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Multidisciplinary studio course reaches new collaborative heights



UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new level of collaboration between students and industry professionals was reached this
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Architecture student finds passion for advocacy at Penn State



Tori Monroe was recently elected as vice president of Penn State’s chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS).
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Graduate student recognized for exploring sustainable building alternatives



UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The built environment accounts for more than 39% of gross annual carbon emissions
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Music education scholar to take helm of School of Music



Ann Marie Stanley, an internationally known music education scholar who is currently an administrator at LSU, has been appointed director of the School of Music, effective July 1.
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