Student News, Awards and Accomplishments

Landscape architecture student wins community service award

Jesse Hunting, a third-year Penn State student in landscape architecture, has been awarded the Distinguished Community Service Award from the City of Harrisburg. In his award letter, Mayor Stephen Reed recognized Jesse for "the excellent work, which [he] organized and undertook, with the help of others, to establish the two lot community parks at 16th and Market Streets in the City of Harrisburg's Allison Hill area." [MORE]

Student accomplishments from the Penn State School of Visual Arts newsletter

Jessica-Lynn Armstrong, a graduate painting student, exhibited in Placescapes at the Stage Gallery in Merrick, NY, in December 2001. [MORE]

Music student awarded Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship

Elizabeth Golden, a Penn State University Park sophomore studying music won the coveted Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Scholarship competition. Scholars will receive up to $30,000 per year for the final one to three years of undergraduate study. [MORE]

Graphic Design Students Spread Message of Peace in Local Community and Beyond

In the wake of September 11, many Americans wanted to do something - anything - to help the victims and the entire country recover from the terrorist attacks. Some gave blood, others donated money to relief efforts, others went straight to Ground Zero to lend a hand to the rescue workers. [MORE]

Malarik Wins Honorable Mention in Architecture Competition

Jessica Malarik, daughter of Andrew and Sue Malarik of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, recently received an honorable mention at the Eleventh Annual Pennsylvania Concrete Masonry Competition, held this spring. Forty-three second-year architecture students from Penn State participated in the ten-week competition, in which they designed an extension to the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia. The competition was judged by outside critics who reviewed the projects and selected the winners. The competition is sponsored annually by the Pennsylvania Concrete Masonry Association. Malarik will graduate in spring 2004 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree.

Lam's Design to Be Used for 2001 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Activities

Senior graphic design student Li Lam's depiction of silhouetted civil-rights marchers underneath a watercolor rainbow will be featured on posters, buttons, and other publicity materials for Penn State's 2001 Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration. For the full story, which appeared in the December 7 issue of Intercom, Penn State's faculty/staff newspaper, go to http://www.psu.edu/ur/INTERCOM/index.html.

Art History and Visual Art Collaboration in Italy

The twenty-two Penn State students in the Todi, Italy Study Abroad program last summer witnessed an unusual teaching collaboration between Kristi Wormhoudt, assistant director of International Education Programs and Studies and affiliate assistant professor of art history, and Paul Chidester, assistant professor of art. [MORE]