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Santa Claus Trombones

Santa to conduct Trombone Choir on Dec. 12

12/10/13

Santa Claus will visit Penn State's Bach's Lunch concert series at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, in Eisenhower Chapel. He will conduct and make merry with the Penn State Trombone Choir in a program of holiday music. Families and children are invited. Admission is free.

Football Coach Bill O'Brien speaks from a dais in the Beaver Stadium media room

O'Brien a finalist for Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year

12/10/13

Penn State coach Bill O’Brien has been named a finalist for the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year. The second-year coach has led the Nittany Lions to 15 wins in their last 22 games.

Litvin publishes electronic resource book in crystallography

12/10/13

Daniel B. Litvin, distinguished professor of physics at Penn State, has authored a new book, titled "Magnetic Group Tables: 1-, 2-, and 3-Dimensinal Magnetic Subperiodic Groups and Magnetic Space Groups," which has been published as an electronic book by the International Union of Crystallography.

Leann Birch

Leann Birch retires after 21 years

12/10/13

Leann Birch, distinguished professor of human development and family studies and director of the Center for Childhood Obesity Research in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State, is retiring effective Dec. 31 after 21 years at Penn State.

Nominations sought for Schreyer Institute awards

12/10/13

Nominations to honor outstanding faculty with the Atherton and Eisenhower awards, and the Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence can now be submitted online.

HESE Greenhouse project

Students solve real-world problems through social entrepreneurship

12/9/13

Penn State student Yixin Sun’s life changed when she began working with the University's Humanitarian Engineering Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program last year. The program opened her eyes to what social entrepreneurship could accomplish, and it also helped put her daily life into perspective. Today hundreds of students, about half of whom are engineering students, work with community partners to identify challenges and develop solutions through HESE.

NCAA-record crowd watches Penn State down Pitt in Pa. Wrestling Showcase

12/9/13

The Penn State Nittany Lion wrestling team, three-time defending NCAA champions, welcomed intrastate rival Pittsburgh to a sold-out Bryce Jordan Center on Sunday (Dec. 8) and came away with a rousing 28-9 victory. Despite a developing snow storm, the dual meet was wrestled in front of 15,996 fans, setting a new NCAA all-time dual meet record and a new record for a Penn State Athletics event in the BJC.

Student design showcase set for Dec. 12

12/9/13

Engineering students will display their solutions to industry-posed problems at the Student Design Project Showcase at 1 p.m. on Dec. 12 at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus of Penn State.

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