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Current Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, has been awarded the prestigious silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica.
IMAGE: Courtesy of Shara McCallum
An annual faculty honor established in 2008, the Penn State Laureate is a full-time faculty member in the arts or humanities who is assigned half time for one academic year to bring greater visibility to the arts, humanities and the University, as well as to their own work. In this role, the laureate is a highly visible representative of the University, appearing at events and speaking engagements throughout the commonwealth.
McCallum succeeds 2020-21 Penn State Laureate David Witwer, professor of American studies in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities.
McCallum is a poet who has authored six books and has had poems and essays published in journals, anthologies and textbooks throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and Israel. Her latest poetry collection, “No Ruined Stone” (slated for release this summer), is a verse sequence based on an alternate account of history and Scottish poet Robert Burns’ near-m
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The Anxiety Project is installed in HUB Gallery and online through March 14.
Image: Ashleigh Longtine
HUB-Robeson Galleries hosts Anxiety Project exhibit, events through March 14
January 20, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The HUB-Robeson Galleries presents The Anxiety Project, works by William Doan, professor of theatre at Penn State, on view daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in HUB Gallery and online through March 14.
Drawing, performing, and sharing have helped Doan – and others – cope, he said. Therapeutic and alleviating symptoms, drawing, performing, and storytelling have helped Doan to imagine his mental health, rather than to be defined by mental illness. The Anxiety Project invites others to draw for their mental health.