Penn State Abington students and faculty marked national Banned Books Week by reading from books that have been challenged, censored, or banned. The books included "Catcher in the Rye," "Heather Has Two Mommies," and "To Kill A Mockingbird."
The Penn State Abington community sent about 150 postcards with encouraging messages to children in Charlottsville, Va., last week. In the aftermath of the events that took place there recently, the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Blue Ridge launched the #DearYoungPerson campaign to send messages of hope to children in the region. The postcard drive was cosponsored by the Penn State Abington Student Conduct Board and Residence Life.
Kaltra Bani, a sophomore at Penn State Abington, recalls how her recent Alternate Spring Break to a Native American reservation in South Dakota changed her perspective.
“Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq” by Sarah Glidden has won the 2017 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year. Penn State University Libraries sponsors the juried award and its administrator, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.
A new study that suggests differences in substance abuse between male and female bullying victims should lead to redesigning anti-bullying efforts, according to Penn State Abington biosocial criminologist Eric J. Connolly.
