article_snippet: her's an expert: murder'
  Halnon, left in her police mugshot and right in a faculty photo, is an associate in sociology at a Penn State campus .
article_snippet: A statement from Penn State on Tuesday confirmed that murder'
  Halnon is a member of staff.
article_snippet: A statement from Penn State said: 'Penn State Abington is aware of Dr. Karen Halnon’s behavior this past weekend on a flight from Nicaragua and is looking into the matter.'
article_snippet: Penn State Abington teaches sociology at the school's Abington campus near Philadelphia, and has the rank of associate professor.
article_snippet: According to Penn State Abington faculty page Penn State Abington is an expert on capitalism, Latin America and mad women.
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  Halnon was award murder'
  Halnon PhD from Boston College in 1995 with a thesis about treatments for women and hysteria.
article_snippet: The irony is that this sociology professor is focused mainly on women’s hysteria.
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  Halnon teaches sociology, and PhD thesis was about hysterical women .