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'Sing Off' Live Tour! coming to Bryce Jordan Center

12/17/13

"The Sing-Off," NBC’s No. 1 rated a cappella music competition, is hitting the road this winter for the first 'Sing-Off' Live Tour! which will be coming to Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28.

Connect with a foreign language this month

12/17/13

December is National Learn a Foreign Language month, and Penn State offers some great opportunities to brush up on your speaking skills. From taking a course to getting involved in a student organization, there are many options to choose from.

Students demonstrate the "LiriK," a tablet for sheet music that turns the page by tracking a person's eyes.

Fall 2013 Design Showcase winners announced

12/17/13

The winners of the fall Engineering Design Showcase were announced on Thursday at the Bryce Jordan Center. The event was the culmination of a semester-long effort by students to solve real-world problems posed by industry sponsors. Participants included first-year students through seniors across a number of engineering disciplines.

Cameron leads effort to define career path for enterprise architects

12/17/13

In today’s globally competitive, economically challenged environment, the need for enterprise architecture (EA) is steadily increasing in organizations of all types and sizes. As a result, EA professionals are in high demand in industry, government and nonprofit organizations.

Cameron plays leading role in efforts to standardize enterprise architecture

12/17/13

Brian Cameron, executive director of the Center for Enterprise Architecture at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), has been named to the governance board for the Enterprise Architecture Body of Knowledge (EABOK) initiative and EABOK Consortium, which were recently launched by the MITRE Corporation and offers enterprise architecture (EA) practitioners and researchers a centralized location for exchanging knowledge about the profession.

Brian Cameron, executive director of the Center for Enterprise Architecture at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, recently delivered a keynote address, at an international conference in India, that focused on using enterprise architecture to design effective big data environments.

Cameron discusses role of enterprise architecture in managing big data

12/17/13

Cloud computing -- a consumer/delivery model where information technology (IT) capabilities are offered as services billed based on usage -- has brought big data analysis to the masses by giving businesses access to vast amounts of computing resources on demand. As the technology continues to advance, the question for many businesses is how they can benefit from big data and how to use cloud computing to make it happen.

recent grad photo for student story

Student Stories: It was a zoo in there, but she loved it

12/17/13

Picture this: a flock of parrots gathered around a television, watching Cinderella. If that sounds unrealistic, think again. Ashley Hallowell, a graduate from the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences veterinary and biomedical sciences program, got to witness this very spectacle during her internship with the Philadelphia Zoo last year.

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