News and Events

News

Top Hat coming to Penn State campuses to help faculty increase course engagement

Top Hat is partnering with Penn State’s Abington, Lehigh Valley and Scranton campuses to offer a series of workshops Feb. 11-13 designed to help faculty get the most out of Top Hat, an engagement platform that has tools for educators and institutions to deliver interactive and personalized learning...

Events

Using Generative AI in Student Assignments

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In this session, we’ll explore how to effectively navigate Microsoft Copilot and learn strategies for integrating it as part of planning and preparation and for using Copilot in classes.

Spring Open House

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Open House features an interactive self-tour with stops throughout Pattee and Paterno Libraries that introduces students to University Library resources and services. 
 

Using Generative AI in Student Assignments

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In this session, we’ll explore how to effectively navigate Microsoft Copilot and learn strategies for integrating it as part of planning and preparation and for using Copilot in classes.

 

Digital Projects and Exhibits

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Earth Archives

Earth Archives: Stories of Human Impact
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day in April of 1970, this exhibition explores the intersection of the environment, human activity, and the documentary record.

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Cast in Steel

Beneath the Surface and Cast in Steel: Forging the American Industrial Union Movement
This digital project provides researchers unprecedented access to Penn State’s extensive collection of primary sources related to the history of industrial unionism in the United States. 

 

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International Solidarity


International Solidarity: Highlights from the Ken Lawrence Collection
The exhibition explores the visual culture of political protest in the late 20th-century.

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Protesters - Old Main

Penn State Education Activism Archive
Using primary sources from Special Collections, students in Professor Steudeman’s Contemporary American Rhetoric: Educational Activism in the United States (CAS 478) class created The Penn State Educational Activism Archive, which aims to complicate and expand our historical knowledge of student and faculty activism at Penn State University.

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Indigenous Roots/Routes

Indigenous Roots/Routes
This student-produced digital media project was created as part of the Public Humanities Fellows Program at the Humanities Institute at Penn State and expands on the Indigenous Roots/Routes exhibition, which encompasses a wide swath of history, geographic range, and varied Indigenous people and cultures and explores the processes of social, religious, and political adaptation.

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Penn State ADA

Celebrating the ADA: The Legacy and Evolution of Disability Rights & Lived Experience at Penn State
A digital exhibition that explores the first 100 years of national disability rights and movements and their impact on the Penn State University community, including resources to proactively learn and influence future efforts.