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March 24, 2020

Essay Contest Winners Announced

The Collegiate Laws of Life Essay Contest asked Penn State students to explore ethical values and intercultural issues, and their talent for expressing their views in writing. We are pleased to announce the winners of this year's contest. First place winner, William McCarter, read his essay at the Paterno Fellows Recognition Ceremony on February 12, and other students who attended the ceremony were presented with certificates. We will publish their essays here in the coming weeks.

FEATURED ESSAY:
William McCarter, ’21 Paterno Fellow and Schreyer Scholar in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Economics, won First Place for his essay, “Honor from Augustine Onward.” Read this essay... 

Women's Activism Courses

The College of the Liberal Arts recently kicked off our yearlong theme for 2020, Moments of Change: A Century of Women’s Activism. If you are interested in women’s activism, take a look at some of the courses offered during the fall 2020 semester that highlight expertise in related areas.

LST 250: Peer Tutoring in Research

Fall 2020 | T/R 1:35–2:50 pm

LST 250 is a research-based class that prepares students to critically think about, use, and produce information. Through a library and information science lens, this class will explore, study, and interrogate the research process. During the semester, students will conduct research, learn about various process for creating, producing, and finding information, and will have the chance to express their findings and frustrations with the other students in the class. By the end of the semester, students will be savvy users of library resources and will have the skills needed to teach others about the research process. This course is well suited for students who are interested in taking a deep dive into the research process, or who have aspirations to do something in the information science field in the future.

ENGL 202B.012: Adult Literacy (Please note: this is no longer an honors section of ENGL 202B.)

Fall 2020 | T/R 1:35–2:50 pm
  • Satisfy your English 202 requirement while earning community-focused internship credits that satisfy a variety of service requirements.
  • All students are welcome.
  • Prerequisites: English 015, English 030, or English/CAS 137/8H and the successful completion of 27.1 credits.
  • Paterno Fellows can choose to use the tutoring component to meet either the Internship or Service/Leadership requirement.
For more information, visit the course website at or contact the instructor, Lorena Waselinko <law17@psu.edu>. 

ENGL 408M: Monstrous, Mad, and Freakish -- Ethics course

Instructor: Professor Christopher Castiglia
This course will explore the three concepts—freaks, monsters, and the mad—used to describe people with physical and mental disabilities during the nineteenth century. Students will study the ethics and aesthetics of displaying, documenting, narrating, and reading/viewing disabled bodies in the historical context of the nineteenth-century US.  The class will examine texts that exposed “mad-houses” (Nellie Bly’s Ten Days in a Mad-House), texts that recount the lives of those exhibited in freak shows (the biographies of the “Siamese Twins” and of “The Dog-Faced Woman”), texts in which crime and physical deformity are aligned (George Thompson’s City Crimes), and texts in which disabilities shape new narrative forms (Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick) or traditional folk tales (Charles Chestnutt’s The Conjure Woman), texts in which new technologies give rise to “posthuman” bodies (Edward Ellis, Steam Man of the Prairie), and texts in which addiction arises as a form of  disability (Walt Whitman’s Franklin Evans). Throughout, we will consider the ways that disability intersected with race, gender, and sexuality, as well as the relevance of contemporary disability theory. This course meets 19th c period requirement for the English major/minor, and has also been approved to meet the ethics requirement for the Paterno Fellows Program.

LA 297-001 / COMM 297-007: Introduction to Public Humanities

Fall 2020 | T/R 9:05–10:10 am | Instructors: Richard Anderson and Vertna West
Have thoughts about social issues? Turn the ideas you care about into a documentary film or other digital media.

Participation in this course makes you eligible for a Public Humanities Fellowship. More info...

Ethics Courses

Check our website for courses you can take to meet the PFP Ethics requirement. New courses are added as departments alert us of their offerings, or as students bring them to our attention. Students must complete 3 credits in ethics (one 3-credit course, or a series of 1- or 2-credit courses) before graduation.

PFP Service/Leadership Requirement

Fellows are expected to take on a leadership role or offer volunteer services to a community of their choice totaling at least 50 hours during their college career. Participants in the Presidential Leadership Academy automatically meet this requirement. To document a leadership or service experience, download the Leadership or Service Documentation Form; complete and submit it using the contact information on the form. Hours may be reported as they are completed for short-term projects, or after the minimum time is met for long-term experiences.

Call for Applications: Rock Ethics Institute Ethics-Related Research Funding

Proposal Deadline: April 17
The Rock Ethics Institute is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for its 2020-2021 research funding awards offered in conjunction with the Paterno Fellows Program. These awards are for undergraduate students in the Paterno Fellows Program who are working on ethics-related topics either as part of or in preparation for their honors theses. The Rock Ethics Institute Award will provide a range of financial support (from $500 to $2,000) for research and related activities. For more information and to apply, please visit this link.

2020 Undergraduate Exhibition Deadline Extended

Proposal Deadline: March 29

The Office of Undergraduate Education will now hold ithe annual Undergraduate Research Exhibiton online, April 15-17, and the deadline to apply has been extended through March 29. Read the story...

Deadline for Chapel Executive Internship Program extended to May 1

The deadline for the summer 2020 Chapel Executive Internship Program has been extended to May 1. Liberal Arts students participating in a summer internship in business or the private sector are encouraged to apply for $5,000 in enrichment funding. Visit our website for eligibility requirements, application instructions, and other important information.

Call for Applications for the C. Dallett Hemphill Undergraduate Internships

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is co-sponsoring two undergraduate summer internships in the summer of 2020. The Center’s partner institutions in 2020 are the Newlin Grist Mill and LancasterHistory. The stipend for each internship is $3,000.
 
These internships are open to undergraduate and terminal masters students enrolled at McNeil Center Consortium institutions and are designed to introduce students to professional work in public history settings. Interns are expected to work full-time (35 hours per week) on site for at least 8 weeks. Beginning and end dates will be arranged between the hosting institution and the intern, but internships should be completed by September 1, 2020. Stipends are intended to cover housing, travel, and daily living expenses – all arrangements and costs for which are the responsibility of the intern. One half of the stipend will be paid at the beginning of the fellowship, and the other half will be remitted at the completion of the internship.
 
Please submit applications by April 6, 2020. Please contact Laura Keenan Spero, McNeil Center Coordinator of Scholarly Programs, at lakeenan@sas.upenn.edu with any questions.

For more info and to apply...

PFP Student Programming Grants

Paterno Fellows are encouraged to apply for Programming Grants for One-Time Events or Sustained Discussion / Reading Groups. Successful applications will enhance students’ education, ignite an interest, or make students consider a topic more deeply. For details, see: pfp-student-programming-grants/

Internship Opportunities

Nittany Lion Careers is Penn State’s single-system recruiting platform. You will be able to use Nittany Lion Careers to: search and apply to internship and job opportunities; upload your resume for review, schedule an appointment with a Career Enrichment Network staff member to help with your career development; view upcoming events; and more!

Your Blurb Here

Are you involved with a local service group that is open for new members? Send your blurb to PaternoFellows@psu.edu and we’ll publish it here. Please include a brief description of your mission, expectations, information sessions/meetings, how to join, etc.

Liberal arts alumna helps create policy think-tank aimed at millennials, Gen Z

Susan Nahvi, '17 PF International Politics and French and Francophone Studies, along with 11 other millennials, created an online resource guide with policy recommendations called "Foreign Policy Generation" (FPGen). 

“Young people need to be involved in the political process in order to make the changes we want to see,” she said. Read the story...

Paterno Fellow Sarahbeth Bowmaster starts first League of Women Voters collegiate chapter

The first collegiate chapter of the national League of Women Voters will be coming to Penn State, thanks to Sarabeth Bowmaster, a first year Paterno Fellow and Schreyer Scholar majoring in political science and women’s studies. Bowmaster said she believes that voting is important for students because this generation will be affected the most by incoming politicians and policy changes. Read the story...

 

Better Know a Paterno Fellow

Paterno Fellows are participating in internships, study abroad, research, and more! Read about their experiences here.

We want to hear from you! Submit your story for publication here.

A message from Liberal Arts Advising

With the University’s decision to shift classes online, the College of the Liberal Arts advising staff wanted to let you know that they are still available. Starting immediately, and until in-person classes resume on campus, all advising appointments will be held via Zoom. Please read through this information thoroughly to ensure you know how to best connect with advisers in the College of the Liberal Arts.

Schreyer Scholars should continue to communicate with honors advisers by email or by other previously established methods.

Virtual appointments available with the Career Enrichment Network

Liberal Arts students can schedule virtual career coaching appointments with Career Enrichment Network staff through April 3. Appointments can be scheduled through Nittany Lion Careers. When you request the appointment, make sure to note that it is virtual, and indicate if you prefer to speak via phone or video. If phone, provide your number in the ‘Additional Information’ section. If video, look for a follow up email confirming the appointment with further instructions.

How can I describe the Paterno Fellows Program on my resume?

Paterno Fellows Program, College of the Liberal Arts
Honors Program including advanced academic coursework, thesis, study abroad and/or internship, ethics study, and leadership/service commitment

Updating your info in the PFP database

Update the PFP database as you complete your Paterno Fellows requirements. You are responsible for marking them “Claimed Satisfied” or turning in the appropriate documentation forms. You should update the requirements you’ve met as you complete them. Please do not wait until your graduation semester. We need time to approve your submissions and mark them “Satisfied.” For further instructions, see the PFP website.

Liberal Arts Alumni Mentor Program

Network with Penn State Alumni! Apply to the Liberal Arts Alumni Mentor Program. Students are matched with alumni working in their field of interest; mentors help with networking, interview prep, and more. Applications are open year-round. More information can be found here.
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