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A graphic of a blue ribbon representing Autism

Penn State Altoona to host screening of ‘Autism Goes to College’

March 25, 2025

'Counting Winter' wins 2025 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award

March 25, 2025

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Penn State Sustainability hosts online films depicting stories of resilience

March 25, 2025

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2025 Happy Valley Animation Festival kicks off March 27

March 24, 2025

Classical guitarist Cinzia Milani to perform April 2 at Penn State

March 24, 2025

Classical guitarist Massimo Delle Cese to perform April 9 at Penn State

March 24, 2025

Art History to host film, Q&A about Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

March 23, 2025

This Backyard Wilderness film poster shows a fawn surrounded by green leaves.

Great Valley to host 'Backyard Wilderness' film screening and discussion April 3

March 22, 2025

Penn State Altoona English professor publishes multiple new poems

March 21, 2025

Penn State Altoona professor to offer lecture for military museum series

March 21, 2025

A publication called "Growing Greener" and a flyer promoting the publication atop grass.

Penn State graphic design students earn national recognition in two competitions

March 21, 2025

The Nittany Lion standing behind a table of trophies.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre hosts Northeast Regional Science Olympiad

March 20, 2025

Penn State University Press, Libraries begin large-scale journals collaboration

March 20, 2025

Three trail marker signs for a wooded preserve tell visitors how long and how difficult each trail is

'Sustainable Narratives: Visualizing Data, Design and Community' exhibit to open

March 20, 2025

Catharine Axley in her office

‘Big ideas’ and teaching drive faculty member’s passion for filmmaking

March 20, 2025

Large vertical video screens hang above a band and a choir.

Bang on a Can All-Stars to perform David Lang’s ‘Before and After Nature’

March 19, 2025

A young woman assists another woman with accessing tickets on her mobile phone.

Download the new, free Arts Ticket Center app for an easier event experience

March 19, 2025

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Things to Do at Penn State: March 20-27

March 19, 2025

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Penn State Rock Ensemble makes its debut performance on April 29

March 19, 2025

Powwow dancer in Native American regalia

Traditional American Indian Powwow scheduled March 29-30 in State College

March 18, 2025

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Calligraphy, proverbs move across large graphite canvases

March 18, 2025

Thumbs of a Thriving Community

Penn State Schuylkill unveils 'Thumbs of a Thriving Community' art piece

March 18, 2025

Penn State to host North American Saxophone Alliance Regional Conference

March 18, 2025

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Pianist Christopher Guzman returns to give free recital at Penn State

March 18, 2025

Black and white image of Tim Ingold.

Esteemed social anthropologist, author to visit the Stuckeman School

March 18, 2025

Agar face sculpture growing microbes.

BioArtist Mellissa Monsoon to present 'Collaborating with Microbes'

March 17, 2025

Three dresses and a men's suit displayed on mannequins as part of an exhibition.

Arts and Architecture’s Golumbic Scholarship exhibition opens March 18

March 17, 2025

Man in a black shirt and pants speaks in front of a group of students gathered around him in a circle

STAGES festival connects School of Theatre students to industry professionals

March 17, 2025

Native American woman dancing in colorful attire

Pre-Powwow Celebration scheduled March 27 inside Bellisario Media Center

March 17, 2025

School of Music

Penn State Symphonic Band selected to perform at 2025 PMEA Conference

March 14, 2025

Dance instructor and children dancing on a stage at festival

WPSU, SCASD to co-host fourth annual Multicultural Children’s Festival, March 22

March 14, 2025

a collage of German composers known for writing Lieder

Penn State Altoona to hold Liederabend March 27

March 13, 2025

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Poet Adrienne Su to offer reading at Penn State on March 20

March 12, 2025

A woman dancing with her hands in the air at the front of a crowd.

Community invited to all-abilities dance workshop at Penn State Wilkes-Barre

March 12, 2025

A three dimensional artwork shaped like a blue cat with yellow eyes and covered in vines

New textile-based sculpture exhibition, 'nosegay,' to begin at HUB Galleries

March 12, 2025

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Penn State Centre Stage presents ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost the Musical’

March 12, 2025

Photo of children’s author Kate Messner

Things to Do at Penn State Harrisburg: March 17-23

March 12, 2025

A diverse cast of actors dressed in dark, gothic, and monstrous costumes pose for a family portrait.

Broadway tour of ‘The Addams Family’ comes to Penn State for two shows April 1–2

March 11, 2025

A Black man with dreadlocks wears sunglasses.

Grammy Award-winning artist Leon Thomas to perform March 25 at Eisenhower

March 11, 2025

Jay Paterno, Smeal faculty member Brett Christenson to talk NIL and NCAA on WPSU

March 11, 2025

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

Harrisburg's Kulkarni Cultural Series to screen film on civil rights activist

March 11, 2025

Theatre masks of comedy and tragedy on a yellow background

Penn State Altoona to present Shakespeare spoof March 20 and 21

March 11, 2025

Three teen-age boys dance in unison in a semi-circle.

‘Dear Evan Hansen’ comes to Eisenhower Auditorium on March 27

March 06, 2025

Italian guitarist Alberto La Rocca to present concert, masterclass, March 18-19

March 06, 2025

Penn State Early Music Ensemble

Early Music Ensemble to present concert on March 31

March 06, 2025

Harriman Recollected: New Views of an 1899 Expedition to Alaska, graphic

Libraries launches digital project highlighting 1899 Alaska expedition materials

March 06, 2025

An illustration of a boy looking at a rabbit.

Mokita Dialogue will discuss ‘Health and Healing Through the Arts’ on March 19

March 06, 2025

2025 President's Concert and Reception set for April 3 in Philadelphia

March 05, 2025

Cafe Laura Entrance

Things to Do at Penn State: March 6-20

March 05, 2025

Penn State Recital Hall

School of Music to host 2025 Penn State New-Music Festival and Symposium

March 05, 2025

A group of acrobats circle to catch another in midair.

Acrobatic cirque company Circa’s ‘Duck Pond’ comes to Penn State on March 22

March 04, 2025

Audience members listen in at the Hard Freight Cafe event

Altoona's Hard Freight Café open mic event set for March 25

March 04, 2025

The Center for Arts and Crafts at Penn State

Center for Arts and Crafts offers spring classes and workshops beginning Mar. 17

March 04, 2025

Portrait of Wendy Horwitz

Conversation in the Humanities at Penn State Abington to feature local memoirist

March 03, 2025

Black and white drawing with three-dimensional geometrical, diamond shapes.

Woskob Gallery reception: ‘Incident and Accident: Daily Drawings’ on March 7

February 28, 2025

Students listening to man teach about building wooden boats

Demonstration by famed wooden boatbuilder a career builder for Abington students

February 28, 2025

Two students dance at a Holi celebration

Things to Do at Penn State Harrisburg: March 3-9

February 28, 2025

A young Black woman looks at a portrait on the wall.

Student Kennedy Ferguson explores Black girlhood, community through portraits

February 27, 2025

Architecture professor recognized with national brick education award

February 27, 2025

Penn State Altoona professors' latest podcast explores body horror

February 26, 2025

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Things to Do at Penn State: Feb. 27-March 6

February 26, 2025

Penn State Concert and Symphonic bands to present concert on March 6

February 25, 2025

Artwork of a woman with green and ivy

Palmer Museum highlights treasure trove of Art Nouveau works in major exhibition

February 25, 2025

Centre Dimensions Mosaic 2024

Penn State School of Music presents Mardi Gras Concert on March 5

February 25, 2025

Steel Dragon will perform in Hiller Student Union, on the campus of Penn State DuBois, on Feb. 27.

Penn State DuBois to welcome Steel Dragon's martial arts and dance on Feb. 27

February 24, 2025

A man climbs a rock wall

Penn State Sustainability to screen two short films on access to the outdoors

February 24, 2025

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