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Six faculty members receive 2024 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching

Six Penn State faculty members have received the 2024 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching. They are Sommar Chilton, associate teaching professor of communication sciences and disorders in the College of Health and Human Development; Linda Istanbulli, Caroline D. Eckhardt Early Career Professor of Comparative Literature and assistant professor of comparative literature and Arabic in the College of the Liberal Arts; Siu Ling "Pansy" Leung, associate teaching professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering; Kuei-Nuan Lin, associate professor of mathematics at Penn State Greater Allegheny; Sarah Nilson, assistant professor of biology at Penn State Beaver; and Kara Stone, assistant teaching professor of English at Penn State Scranton.
Dr. Meg Hatch at the podium speaks to students at the honors luncheon

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Honors Program Coordinator Meg Hatch speaks to the campus' deans list students being honored recently at a special luncheon celebrating their academic accomplishments. She encouraged them to continue to keep on learning not just for the prestige of good grades, but for the process and joy of learning as well.