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.
Is your organization dealing with diversity issues? Is it growing its business globally? Are you involved with leading emerging talent and preparing the next workforce? Human resource professionals and others responsible for diversity initiatives can learn new engagement and retention strategies at a half-day conference at Penn State Abington on Oct. 5.
The Penn State Abington Woodland Gallery features pieces this fall by art instructor Jason Slowik. Aptly titled "Recent Work," the exhibit is open to the public through Oct. 28.
William Alton picked up his bachelor's degree from Penn State Abington in May and packed up for Italy to follow his dream. His major in Corporate Communication afforded him a world of opportunities, and he chose one that requires all of the skill sets he honed at Abington -- playing professional basketball with other athletes from around the globe.
Penn State Abington Chancellor Karen Wiley Sandler announces that Director of Athletics Karen Weaver will leave at the end of this month to assume a faculty position at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Penn State Abington Chancellor Karen Wiley Sandler announced today (Aug. 1) that the college has achieved full active membership in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III, effective Sept. 1.
The prowess of 22 Penn State Abington student-athletes in the classroom was recognized last week when they were named North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Scholar Athletes for the 2011-12 academic year.
The joyful noise - the jokes, shouts and general commotion that comprise the soundtrack of Penn State Abington - has dropped a few notches in volume. The raucous laugh is gone, retired along with its owner after echoing around the campus for portions of six decades.
Bob Barton, senior instructor of kinesiology, called it a career at the end of the spring semester, leaving behind indelible traces of the infectious optimism that he first brought to Abington as a student in the late 1960s.
When Joan Robbins was 3, her mother asked why she was climbing behind the television in their Northeast Philadelphia home. "Because I want to be in television," little Joan firmly replied. Today, Robbins, a 1971 Penn State alumna, is definitely in television, and she just acquired the ultimate piece of TV-industry bling: a Daytime Emmy award, the happy outcome of her first nomination in a 40-year career.
Most Americans learn about the military reaction to disasters like Hurricane Katrina, Sept. 11 and The Deepwater Horizon oil spill from websites and media outlets. But P.J. Capelotti experienced them first-hand. Capelotti, associate professor of anthropology at Penn State Abington, stood on the unsteady decks of U.S. Coast Guard vessels in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Mexico and painstakingly recorded the experiences of these first responders to be shared with future generations.