Charles Cantalupo, Distinguished Professor of English, comparative literature and African studies, spent years traveling to and researching the cities where one of America’s all-time greatest writers, Edgar Allan Poe, lived throughout his life. On June 4, he performed for the first time the entire sequence of his poems on where Poe lived, called “Poe in Place.”
Students, faculty and staff members at the Penn State Lehigh Valley campus joined together in a surprise song and dance to show their love for retiring chancellor of 15 years, Ann Williams. The flash mob took place on April 30, 2015.
Students, faculty and staff members at the Lehigh Valley campus joined together to honor Chancellor Ann Williams by performing a flash mob on April 30. Williams will be retiring June 30 after 15 years as chancellor of the campus.
Each year, Penn State honors several members of its faculty and staff for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. The 2015 Faculty/Staff Award recipients — 33 outstanding University employees and one program — reach across campuses, colleges and administrative units and exemplify best practices and achievements among Penn Staters reflecting the University's mission of teaching, research and service.
As part of Penn State’s ongoing efforts to raise awareness about sexual violence, the University is marking Sexual Assault Awareness month in April, with events slated to take place at campuses across the Commonwealth. Those events include lectures, film screenings, self-defense training, “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” events and other educational programs.
Lehigh Valley professor Barbara Cantalupo and DuBois Professor Emeritus Richard Kopley are notable Edgar Allan Poe scholars, longtime colleagues and friends. Their most recent collaboration, the fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, was more than two years in the making.
Barbara Cantalupo (left) and Richard Kopley at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. The hotel is the site of the fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, which the longtime colleagues and friends teamed up to chair.
