ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATE DEAN AWARDED NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., May 20 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Folayemi Wilson, associate dean for access and equity in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, has been awarded a W. E. B. Du Bois Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to conduct research for a book project that weaves arboreal research and the history of female lynching victims with Wilson's own personal and professional life. Structured in the form of a memoir, the book will incorporate previously unknown familial connections to lessons that correlate with the wisdom of trees and American history.

The mission of the W. E. B. Du Bois Center, founded at the University of Massachusetts Amherst ...