December 10, 2021
A&A students use SEN grants to support their educational and career goals
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I’m consistently impressed by our students’ success with the SEN grant program." -Kendall MainzerMunitz, a Schreyer Honors College student double-majoring in musical theatre and psychology, used her grant to support production and direction of her original one-act play, “Lonely Together,” to be presented Dec. 10-12 at the Penn State Downtown Theatre Center. The play is part of Munitz’s interdisciplinary research under the mentorship of Dr. Daryl Cameron in the Empathy and Moral Psychology Lab. Cameron is a senior research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute and associate professor of psychology, Bollinger’s grant is funding a trip to Washington, D.C., where she will visit a variety of museums and other historical sites. She is double-majoring in art history and social studies education, and will be student-teaching in spring 2022. “As an art history student, I believe it is important to view the art I have studied in class in person,” she said. “In addition, I am hoping to use many of the pictures I take and the information I learn from my trip to incorporate in the classroom.” Five members of Students for Environmentally Enlightened Design (SEED)—Amorello, Clampet-Lundquist, Etcharren, Darlington and Lochner—used their grants to attend the international Greenbuild Conference and Expo in San Diego this fall, as a way to jumpstart their student organization after a year of COVID-related limitations. “Greenbuild was an amazing experience for all of us,” said Amorello, president of SEED. Additional projects include a student film and a graphic design internship with the Penn State Football program, among others. The Penn State Student Engagement Network is a comprehensive initiative across the University’s 24 campuses that connects students with curricular and co-curricular opportunities such as research, student organization involvement, community leadership, study abroad, internships, arts and performances, and more. Launched in 2017, it is a joint effort among Undergraduate Education, Student Affairs, and Outreach and Online Education. Each year SEN awards $1000 and $2000 grants to undergraduate students to support a wide variety of virtual, remote and/or in-person engagement experiences. Grant recipients participate in a free, non-credit-bearing SEN Canvas course centered on the student engagement journey, and work with a Penn State faculty or staff Engagement Coach.
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Schools and Departments:
Department of Architecture, Department of Art History, Department of Graphic Design, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Theatre, School of Visual Arts, Stuckeman School