Students to Represent Liberal Arts at Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop
Two graduate students from Liberal Arts will participate in the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop sponsored by Penn State, by the partner institutions of the Outreach Scholarship Conference, and by the National Center for the Study of University Engagement. Suellen Hopler (doctoral student in Communication Arts and Sciences) and Charles Brua (doctoral student in Applied Linguistics) are among the fifteen presenters chosen through a competitive process.
Hopler’s research interest involves access to healthcare, and she designs programs to prevent substance abuse in adolescents. Brua explores ways to improve health-care communication when the provider and the patient come from different language and cultural backgrounds. Held in conjunction with the National Outreach Scholarship Conference in early October, the Emerging Engagement Scholars workshop will provide advanced graduate students and early career faculty with background, discussion, and presentations from national leaders and community partners designed to increase awareness and knowledge of engaged scholarship. When Penn State Outreach recently applied for the Carnegie elective classification in Community Engagement, Professor Michael Hecht’s research on drug prevention figured prominently in the application.