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Professorship brings noted Middle East history scholar to Penn State

Professorship brings noted Middle East history scholar to Penn State
Laura Robson named inaugural William L. and Donna F. Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History in the College of the Liberal Arts
Middle East history scholar Laura Robson has joined the College of the Liberal Arts as the inaugural Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History.Image: Andrea Lonas Photography
Professorship brings noted Middle East history scholar to Penn State
Susan Burlingame
March 09, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Laura Robson has been named the inaugural William L. and Donna F. Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History in the College of the Liberal Arts.
Her appointment is possible due to the generosity of Penn State philanthropists Donna Oliver, a 1967 liberal arts alumna, and her husband William ( Bill ), a 1967 alumnus of Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. The Olivers took advantage of the Tracy and Ted McCourtney Endowed Professorship Matching Gift Program to create the ....

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Tracy and Ted McCourtney renew commitment to liberal arts with a $2 million gift

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This is the third leadership gift made by the McCourtneys during the University’s current fundraising campaign, “A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence.” Their latest commitment follows a $3 million gift in 2016 to establish the Tracy and Ted McCourtney Endowed Professorship Matching Gift Program, which resulted in six endowed professorships in the College of the Liberal Arts; and a substantial gift in 2019 to establish the McCourtney Civil Discourse Initiative Fund, which enhances the McCourtney Institute’s efforts to support scholarship, collaboration and activities that serve to promote respect and open-mindedness in political discourse for all of American society. ....

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