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Tom Neely receives the award

Nittany Lion Inn honored as AAA Four Diamond Hotel

6/19/13

The Nittany Lion Inn was honored as a AAA Four Diamond hotel for the fourth straight year. Tom Neely, general manager of the Nittany Lion Inn, was presented with the 2013 AAA Four Diamond Award for Lodging on Monday, June 10.

Standing Wave

Sound waves precisely position nanowires

6/19/13

The smaller components become, the more difficult it is to create patterns in an economical and reproducible way, according to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers who, using sound waves, can place nanowires in repeatable patterns for potential use in a variety of sensors, optoelectronics and nanoscale circuits.

Exterior of Pegula Ice Arena construction

PCN's 'Discover PA Business' to feature Penn State June 23

6/18/13

Penn State will be spotlighted in a new Pennsylvania Cable Network series that profiles the state's economic engines at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 23. “Discover PA Business," a collaboration between PCN and the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, began as a monthly series earlier this year.

Exhibit highlights 25 years of sports archives at Penn State

Exhibit highlights 25 years of sports archives at Penn State

6/18/13

"Glory Days: Celebrating 25 Years of Sports Archives at Penn State,” an exhibition, is on display in June 19–Sept. 19, in Robb Hall, Hintz Alumni Center, Penn State University Park. Horace Ashenfelter, Wally Triplett, Mary Ellen Clark, John Montgomery Ward, Sue Whiteside – the names of such Penn State athletes remind the visitor to the newly installed Hintz Alumni Center exhibit of the role of sports in helping Penn State achieve national recognition.

Storytelling program helps change medical students' perspectives on dementia

6/18/13

Treating patients with dementia can be viewed as a difficult task for doctors, but Penn State College of Medicine researchers say that storytelling may be one way to improve medical students' perceptions of people affected by the condition. Participation in a creative storytelling program called TimeSlips creates a substantial improvement in student attitudes.

Smeal Alumni in Profile: Alumnus finds niche through hard work, commitment

6/14/13

Alumnus Jared Satkoff, a 2008 marketing graduate, says his time at the Penn State Smeal College of Business prepared him to work hard and pursue his career in more ways than he expected. Only five years out of school, he has worked his way up to senior district manager at ADP, a payroll services company with an office in Philadelphia.

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Video: Curators give talk, tour at Palmer Museum of Art

4/3/13

At a recent Research Unplugged program at Penn State's Palmer Museum of Art, curators Joyce Robinson and Dana Carlisle Kletchka presented a talk and tour, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum: What Do Curators Do?"

Robinson, curator of art and affiliate associate professor of art history, is a specialist in modern American and European art, and teaches courses primarily on African American art.

Image of the front of Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital

Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital again ranked as one of nation's best

6/11/13

Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital has been ranked in five specialties in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-14 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. Children’s Hospital ranked in cancer, urology, orthopedics, neurology and neurosurgery, and cardiology and heart surgery -- two more specialties than last year.

yellow and black striped insect

Ozone masks plant's volatiles, plant-eating insects confused

4/2/13

Increases in ground-level ozone, especially in rural areas, may interfere not only with predator insects finding host plants, but also with pollinators finding flowers, according to researchers from Penn State and the University of Virginia.

Tom and Nicki Lucas

$1 million Lucas gift endows industrial engineering professorship

2/27/13

A $1 million gift from Tom Lucas, an industrial engineering alumnus, and his wife, Nicki, will create the Lucas Professorship in Industrial Engineering. "This generous endowment from Tom and Nicki gives us the opportunity to attract a pre-eminent faculty member to our department," said Paul Griffin, Peter and Angela Dal Pezzo Department Head Chair.

Tom Neely receives the award

Nittany Lion Inn honored as AAA Four Diamond Hotel

6/19/13

The Nittany Lion Inn was honored as a AAA Four Diamond hotel for the fourth straight year. Tom Neely, general manager of the Nittany Lion Inn, was presented with the 2013 AAA Four Diamond Award for Lodging on Monday, June 10.

Standing Wave

Sound waves precisely position nanowires

6/19/13

The smaller components become, the more difficult it is to create patterns in an economical and reproducible way, according to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers who, using sound waves, can place nanowires in repeatable patterns for potential use in a variety of sensors, optoelectronics and nanoscale circuits.

Exterior of Pegula Ice Arena construction

PCN's 'Discover PA Business' to feature Penn State June 23

6/18/13

Penn State will be spotlighted in a new Pennsylvania Cable Network series that profiles the state's economic engines at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 23. “Discover PA Business," a collaboration between PCN and the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, began as a monthly series earlier this year.

Exhibit highlights 25 years of sports archives at Penn State

Exhibit highlights 25 years of sports archives at Penn State

6/18/13

"Glory Days: Celebrating 25 Years of Sports Archives at Penn State,” an exhibition, is on display in June 19–Sept. 19, in Robb Hall, Hintz Alumni Center, Penn State University Park. Horace Ashenfelter, Wally Triplett, Mary Ellen Clark, John Montgomery Ward, Sue Whiteside – the names of such Penn State athletes remind the visitor to the newly installed Hintz Alumni Center exhibit of the role of sports in helping Penn State achieve national recognition.