Smeal Celebrates 50th Anniversary & New Building With Blue-White Weekend Kickoff
Smeal Celebrates 50th Anniversary & New Building With Blue-White Weekend Kickoff
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA -- Penn State’s Smeal College of Business will kickoff its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday, April 26 (Blue-White Weekend) at the corner of Park Avenue and Shortlidge Road—the future site of the college’s new building. Current students, alumni, and the entire Penn State community are invited to join the festivities and be a part of an historic aerial photograph at 11 a.m. The party begins at 10 a.m.
With the outline of Smeal’s immense business building of the future sketched on the ground, those in attendance will be invited to take positions within the outline of the building, thus serving as real-life building blocks for the future.
“People are the essence of a community, and great communities are housed in great facilities,” says Smeal Dean Judy Olian. “For 50 years, people have propelled this college forward in its mission. Blue-White Saturday is an opportunity to unite the people of our past, present, and future, along with the surrounding community as a whole, for one symbolic moment as we shape our future home.”
Along with the photo opportunity, the event will feature food and entertainment, a visit by Penn State’s Nittany Lion mascot, and other surprises; all of it before the Blue-White scrimmage at Beaver Stadium, which begins at 2 p.m.
Penn State’s Smeal College of Business was founded in 1953 as an outgrowth of the Department of Commerce and Finance in Liberal Arts. During its 50-year history, the college has steadily advanced toward greater prominence and prestige, building on its nationally and internationally ranked Undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, Executive Education, and Ph.D. programs. Today, the college features a network of more than 53,000 active alumni.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the new home of the Smeal College will be held on October 31, 2003. Robert A.M. Stern Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and among the world’s most eminent architects, is designing the 210,000-square-foot building, the largest academic facility at Penn State. For the first time in the history of the college, all faculty departments, research centers, program offices, advisors, staff, and almost all of our students will be co-located upon the completion of construction in summer 2005.
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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.
