Pearl Gluck, the Penn State faculty member who serves as the Centre Film Festival’s artistic director and cofounder, helps drive the seven-year-old festival’s impact largely as a matchmaker — combining an educational and informational foundation with a collaborative, entertaining and fun approach during the weeklong festival.
As the 2025-26 Penn State Laureate, filmmaker and associate professor Pearl Gluck is traveling across the commonwealth to share her films and examine how storytelling lives within communities — not only in places, but through the people who care for them: archivists, artists, educators, librarians, museum guides and local historians who serve as keepers of cultural memory.
Penn State’s Environmental Health and Safety team will host virtual and in-person events for the University’s research and academic community as part of its Lab Safety Awareness Week initiative, Feb. 9-13.
Students at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus pose with Student Affairs staff after completing 35 handmade fleece blankets for pediatric patients at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital.
Students at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus pose with Student Affairs staff after completing 35 handmade fleece blankets for pediatric patients at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital.
Students at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus created 35 handmade fleece blankets for pediatric patients at Penn State Health Golisano Children’s Hospital, as part of a service initiative led by the campus Student Government Association.