November 14, 2000 

Penn State Abington Receives State Grant for Lecture Series, Says Bard 

Pennsylvania State University at Abington will receive a $6,000 state grant to help fund a lecture series, Montgomery County lawmaker Rep. Ellen M. Bard (R-153) said today. 

The general purpose of the lecture is to enhance the intellectual conversation with faculty and students.  Bard said the promotion of Penn State Abington to college status in 1997 has brought with it an acute interest in stimulating the academic climate.  

Bard said the lecture series will feature well-known scholars presenting stimulating subject matters.  The university plans to offer a lecture in each of its next academic semesters. School officials plan to invite Daniel R. Schwartz, professor of English at Cornell University.  Schwartz is the recipient of the 1999 Cornell Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellowship and author of the recently published Imagining the Holocaust.   

“The lecture series will enable the university to present itself as a more serious institution of higher learning and academic success,” Bard said.