College of the Liberal Arts

CORONAVIRUS UPDATES: Resources and updates for Liberal Arts students, faculty, and staff.

Rachel Blansfield named college marshal for fall commencement Congratulations to Schreyer Scholar Rachel Blansfield ’22 Psychology, who represented the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State’s fall 2022 commencement!
Gabrielle Foreman awarded prestigious MacArthur Fellowship Congratulations to Professor and Center for Black Digital Research Co-Director P. Gabrielle Foreman on being named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow by the MacArthur Foundation!
Alum encourages underrepresented communities to pursue STEM
After noticing the lack of underrepresented individuals in STEM, Chaiken Scholar alum Jordan Chapman ’16 Anthropology and Geosciences created the Black Science Coalition and Institute.
Liberal Arts student spends fall semester interning in Chile This fall, Liberal Arts student Luisina Kemanian-Leites ’22 International Politics and Latin American Studies studied and interned with an IES Abroad program in Santiago, Chile.
Alumna combines passions to build manga career in Japan
Liberal Arts alum Catherine Delage ’18 Comparative Literature and Japanese currently lives and works in Japan and translates award-winning mangas from Japanese to English at MediBang.
History of Civil Rights visionaries comes to life in murals Two murals depicting the 19th-century Colored Conventions Movement, a collaboration between the Colored Conventions Project and Mural Arts Philadelphia, were unveiled in Philadelphia.
First-generation student reflects on college experience First-generation Liberal Arts student Kaitlin Pasternak ’23 History got involved in academic and extracurricular activities at Penn State that helped her adjust to a new environment.
College breaks ground on Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building
Upon its anticipated completion in fall 2024, first new liberal arts building in more than fifty years to be hub of collaboration and intellectual discovery in the heart of campus.

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