Alumni Fellow Award Winners
From a world-renowned bee researcher to the first African American district attorney in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Penn State’s 2011 Alumni Fellows remain on the cutting edge with substantial professional achievements.
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Jam-Packed Homecoming Weekend
There’s no better way to usher in the curl-your-toes excitement that fall brings than by joining a timeless tradition: Homecoming Weekend at Penn State. The 2011 Homecoming Committee and the Penn State Alumni Association have planned a fun-filled, jam-packed weekend for returning alumni around the theme Forever Lions, Endless Pride.
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Hemingway’s Life Through His Letters
Remember reading A Farewell to Arms or The Sun Also Rises in high school? Equal to Ernest Hemingway’s legacy of influential writing is a dramatic life that includes four marriages, journalism stints across Europe, numerous friendships with well-known writers and surviving two plane crashes. For the first time, glimpses of his life come alive with Penn State English Professor Sandra Spanier’s first volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway.
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Ralston Speaks at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Aron Ralston, famed for surviving the horrific ordeal of being trapped by a boulder while on a solitary hike, is the subject of the recent movie “127 Hours” and author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place. In late September, Ralston shared his inspirational story with a standing-room-only crowd at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
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Penn State’s Helping Hands
Penn State’s faculty, staff and students sow seeds of assistance and empowerment every day for communities and small businesses across Pennsylvania, from grocery bag pricing at the local food bank to enabling military children to attend summer camp. Find out through PSU4PA—Penn State for PA—how Penn State people are making a difference in every corner of the Commonwealth.
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