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Campus remembers professor emeritus of English, former associate chair

P. Gabrielle Foreman, Paterno Family Professor of American Literature, professor of African American studies and history and co-director of the Center for Digital Black Research at Penn State, has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow for “setting a new standard for digital and collaborative humanities scholarship while also uncovering histories of African American organizing that are still relevant and resonant today.”      

Kelly Mulholland is among 10 doctoral students awarded dissertation prizes for 2020 and 2021. Mulholland, shown here being hooded by Louis Rossi, dean of the Graduate College, and her adviser Calvin Keeler, interim dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, received the Interdisciplinary Research Prize for her work developing tools and techniques to identify bacteria, viruses and fungi found in a chicken’s respiratory tract. Dissertation scholars shine UD doctoral students honored for work in preservation studies, engineering, chemistry, psychology and more The Universi...