Nick Bear leads a song verse as the Burnurwurbskek Singers, a men’s drum group from the indigenous Penobscot Nation, perform behind the Sieur De Monts Nature Center in Acadia National Park, Wednesday, June 30, 2021. As the first event of the 2021 Cultural Connections in the Park program series in partnership with the Abbe Museum, the Burnurwurbskek Singers performed traditional Wabanaki songs and engaged audiences in performing traditional dances.
Aquila Kikora Franklin, an associate professor of theatre/dance at Penn State, performs a movement piece during the poetry slam outside the State College Borough Municipal Building as part of the lineup of events for the Honoring Osaze’s Legacy festival on Saturday, March 20, 2021 in State College, Pa. The festival concludes the 3/20 Coalition’s Ten Days of Action, marking the second anniversary of State College police shooting and killing Osaze Osagie, a black man, while serving a mental health warrant at Osagie's home.
Following the Parade of Hounds, a woman exclaims after realizing a hound has urinated on her leg and as another jumps up to grab her jacket at the Ligonier Polo Association’s first tailgate and polo match of the 2020 season on Saturday, July 11, 2020 in Ligonier, Pa.
Local drag queen Absinthe performs in a lip-synch battle during Penn State Opulence's spring drag show in Heritage Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Opulence is Penn State's drag ambassador club.
Tierra Williams, a co-leader of the 3/20 Coalition, holds a framed photo of Osaze Osagie as coalition members and supporters march down Allen Street during the “Complacency Kills” rally, part of the coalition’s seven days of action titled “3 Cops, 3 Years, 3 Shots” in remembrance of the three-year “murderversary” of Osagie, on Saturday, March 19, 2022 in State College, Pa. The rally started at the Allen Street Gates and moved down Allen Street to the State College Municipal Building and then to the apartment building where police shot and killed Osagie, a black man with autism and schizophrenia, while serving a mental health warrant in 2019.
Members of Volé Dance Company perform during the 2022 THON Showcase at Schwab Auditorium on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 in University Park, Pa.
Tierra Williams, co-leader of the 3/20 Coalition, writes a message in chalk on College Avenue after the march in protest of the State College Police Department’s role in Osaze Osagie’s death two years ago in State College, on Friday, March 19, 2021. The protest march was part of the 3/20 Coalition’s Ten Days of Action leading up to Saturday, March 20, the second anniversary of Osagie’s death.
Penn State students Rebecca Siemon, a freshman in the division of undergraduate studies, left, and Samantha Biederwolf, a freshman studying biomedical engineering, right, take a selfie with their THON organization, FOTO’s, letters in the stands of the Bryce Jordan Center during Penn State THON on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. Penn State THON is the world's largest student run philanthropy, partnered since 1977 with the Four Diamonds Fund to support families of children with pediatric cancer and fund cancer research.
Penn State student and counter protester Avi Rachlin is left with a bloody nose after a physical altercation with other rally attendees during the Student-Faculty Rally to Vaccinate Penn State, organized by the Coalition for a Just University at Penn State, outside Old Main on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 in University Park, Pa. Following the FDA’s first vaccine approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on August 23, faculty and students called for a vaccine mandate from Penn State as other Big Ten schools implement vaccine mandates.
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma gives the first of two surprise performances in Acadia National Park at the Jordan Pond House on Thursday, June 17, 2021. Ma’s second surprise performance was at Otter Point.
Penn State students Stephanie Poly (left) and Bailey Klein (right) show affection for each other in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Noontime Lounge on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020.
Steel Valley High School students left, Frank Guzzi, 18, of West Homestead, and Nick Harhai, 18 of West Homestead, play air guitar during prom at the Waterfront Shopping Center on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 in Homestead. One student’s father, Chuck Spicuzza, 45, of Munhall, organized the prom with the help of the shopping center after the school’s prom was cancelled, one of many school events cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adelaide Hagey, age 5, recites the Pledge of Allegiance with guidance from her teacher and occupational therapist, Mark Kislan, over a Zoom call at the Hagey family’s home in Oakmont on Thursday, June 18, 2020. Adelaide, who is blind and nonverbal and diagnosed with Williams Syndrome and malignant infantile osteopetrosis, finished her school year with the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children virtually.
Aaliyah Johnson’s mother Tonya Reed, age 54, of Bellefonte, Pa., embraces Akilah Wallace, age 38, of North Versailles Township, in front of the McKeesport Police headquarters at the Public Safety Building during the Justice for Aaliyah Denise Johnson march on Friday, June 12, 2020. Johnson’s death after falling from a ninth story apartment window on May 26 was ruled a suicide, however her friends and family belief her death is due to a different cause based on her history of facing discrimination and harassment for being a black transgender woman. The march, organized by Johnson’s friend Terrance McGeorge of the Hill District, was held to demand a fair investigation of Johnson’s death.
Anthony Uliana, 18, of the Poconos, wears a shirt with images of President Donald Trump at the president’s Great American Comeback Event at the Harrisburg International Airport on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020 in Middletown, Pa. In his remarks, President Trump emphasized job creation and the importance of Pennsylvania’s vote in the 2020 November election.
As Central PA Night to Shine prom attendees arrive, they are greeted and cheered for by State College Area High School students at Calvary, Harvest Fields in Boalsburg, Pa. on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022. Night to Shine is a prom for special needs individuals sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation.
Australian-American singer and songwriter Betty Who performs at Alumni Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. The free concert was hosted by the Student Programming Association in collaboration with Penn State Homecoming to kick off Homecoming week.