"Alumni Updates" highlights career achievements by Penn State College of Education alumni.
- Logan Rutten, who received a doctorate in curriculum and instruction (curriculum and supervision emphasis) and a doctoral minor in educational theory and policy in summer 2021, received the 2023 Association of Teacher Educators Distinguished Dissertation in Teacher Education Award. His research was on professional development schools and teacher inquiry. Rutten currently is an education program specialist with the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative at Penn State. Starting this August, he will be an assistant professor on the graduate faculty of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of North Dakota.
- Janet Paluck Thompson, who earned a bachelor of science in education from Penn State in 1960, died on March 23. Born on March 1, 1939, in Alden Station, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Newport Township High School in 1950 and received a master of education degree from Kean College. She retired from teaching in 2011. At the time of her passing, she lived in Edison, New Jersey.
Did you get a new job, celebrate a career milestone, get a promotion or award, recently retire or have other career-related news to share? If so, we want to hear from you. Email us at edrelations@psu.edu with your name, information about your achievement, and the degree(s) you earned and year(s) of graduation from the Penn State College of Education.