Smeal Arts Fest Event Combines Business And Art
A reception to be held in Smeal College's Business Building during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts will give alumni and friends of the college the opportunity to meet Smeal's new dean and view artwork on display by students, faculty and friends of the college.
Smeal Arts Fest Event Combines Business And Art
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (July 5, 2006)—A reception to be held in Smeal College's Business Building during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts will give alumni and friends of the college the opportunity to meet Smeal's new dean and view artwork on display by students, faculty and friends of the college.
James B. Thomas, dean of Smeal, will speak at 3:30 p.m. on July 14 at a reception mixing business and art. The event kicks off at 3 p.m. with refreshments and tours of the Business Building. Art by the Smeal community will be on display until 5 p.m.
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, or "Arts Fest" as it's known to the thousands of Penn State alumni and visitors who flock to State College for the annual event, is a celebration of the visual and performing arts that takes place each July in downtown State College and on the Penn State campus.
The reception at Smeal is designed especially for friends of Smeal who are visiting State College for the Arts Fest.
Before he joined Smeal, Thomas was dean of Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), where he as been since IST's inception in 1999. Prior to joining IST, Thomas spent 12 years on the Smeal faculty, culminating in appointments as senior associate dean and professor of management and organization.
Thomas is a Penn State alumnus with a bachelor's degree in political science. He also holds a master's degree in political science from Florida State University and a Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Texas at Austin.
Registration for the event is open until July 10 at www.smeal.psu.edu/artsfest. For more information, call 814-865-7831.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
