Congratulations to Laura Brown, who has been selected as the Liberal Arts Student Marshal to represent the College at the Spring 2014 commencement ceremony.
Laura is the daughter of Arden and Mary Brown of Waterford, Pennsylvania. Enrolled in an Integrated Undergraduate-Graduate (IUG) program at Penn State, she is graduating with dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Music and Russian, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Musicology. She is also a scholar in the Schreyer Honors College.
At Penn State she has received a number of awards, including the Evan Pugh Senior Scholar Award, the Brewster and Presser Awards from the School of Music, and an Alumni Association scholarship from the College of Arts and Architecture, and she was also the winner of the Penn State Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto Competition in 2012.
Laura has taken part in a range of activities at Penn State, ranging from the Blue Band to the Penn State Association of Students in Russian, and she has also completed international study in St. Petersburg, Russia. With a focus on the academic study of music and its place in Russian culture, she has presented research at conferences both in the US and in Russia, and in the fall she will be entering the PhD program in Musicology at Yale University.
For more information on the Spring 2014 commencement ceremonies, visit the Commencement at University Park website.