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Penn State track athlete Robby Creese

Fifteen Nittany Lions earn USTFCCCA All-Academic honors

7/25/14

A total of 15 Nittany Lion track and field athletes have earned All-Academic recognition from the United States Track and Field/Cross Country Assocation (USTFCCCA). The Penn State women's squad also earned All-Academic team honors, earning a cumulative GPA of 3.32.

Penn State swimmer Carolyn Fittin

Eighteen swimmers receive Scholar All-America honors

7/25/14

Eighteen members of the Penn State men's and women's swimming and diving teams have been named College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-Americans,. Six members of the women's program received first team honors. The women also earned the Team Scholar All-America award.

Lacrosse trio win silver medals at FIL World Championships

7/25/14

The 2014 FIL World Championships concluded Saturday night at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo. as Canada emerged victorious, 8-5, over the United States. Nittany Lion men's head coach Jeff Tambroni, 2006 graduate Greg Gurenlian and 2009 graduate Drew Adams represented the American squad that earned silver.

Glon tabbed to lead fencing program as new head coach

7/25/14

Wieslaw 'Wes' Glon, a 29-year veteran on the Penn State coaching staff, has been named the Head Coach for the Penn State men's and women's fencing teams. Glon led Penn State to the NCAA title this past year as the interim head coach.

Members of the Penn State football team pose with a child at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital

Football team visits Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital

7/25/14

Core value No. 1 for Penn State Football is ensuring that every member of the program has a positive attitude at all times. When the entire team boarded three buses on Wednesday (July 23) afternoon, head coach James Franklin and the Nittany Lions set out on a mission to make a visit to Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital one filled with positivity and enthusiasm.

Cochran Fellowship Program participants

School of Hospitality Management lends expertise to Nigerian food service execs

7/25/14

Oluwatoyin Alabi, president and CEO of a catering company in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria, said one of the most valuable things he learned while studying with instructors in Penn State’s School of Hospitality Management (SHM) is how to maximize small spaces without compromising food safety. Now Alabi is determined to share what he’s learned with his team back home.

Sue Paterno

Navy League to hold ROTC benefit dinner

7/25/14

The Navy League of the United States (Central Pennsylvania council) will hold a benefit dinner for the Penn State Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Student Scholarship Fund Nov. 12 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on Penn State's University Park campus, as part of Military Appreciation Week activities.

Smeal's multimedia team recognized for providing valuable student service

7/24/14

A group of Smeal College of Business staff members were recently recognized for their efforts to provide students with professional portraits for their LinkedIn profiles. The Penn State Information Technology Resource Responsibility award was granted to the Resource, Instruction and Information Technology (RIIT) Group’s Multimedia Team.

Yellow fever epidemic presents 200-year-old lesson in crisis management

7/24/14

Among natural and man-made disasters, there is perhaps nothing more baffling and terrifying than an infectious disease outbreak. In 1793, a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia killed about 5,000 people and altered the course of history. According to Ed Glantz, a senior lecturer at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), an outbreak could wreak similar havoc in modern times, and emergency response systems may not be much better prepared than they were over 200 years ago.

Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center

Penn State named an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University

7/24/14

The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) has named Penn State an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University in recognition of its strong commitment to economic engagement. Institutions that earn the designation of Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities work with public and private sector partners in their states and regions to support economic development through a variety of activities, including innovation and entrepreneurship, technology transfer, talent and workforce development and community development.

Fossil of moth on sycamore

Leaf-mining insects destroyed with the dinosaurs, others quickly appeared

7/24/14

After the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period that triggered the dinosaurs' extinction and ushered in the Paleocene, leaf-mining insects in the western United States completely disappeared. Only a million years later, at Mexican Hat, in southeastern Montana, fossil leaves show diverse leaf-mining traces from new insects that were not present during the Cretaceous, according to paleontologists.

Let’s Move! Pennsylvania Conference to address childhood obesity

7/24/14

Penn State Extension will offer the Let’s Move! Pennsylvania conference from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel to help families, communities and schools work together in solving the challenge of childhood obesity.

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