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Lady Lions travel to Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis

3/6/14

After winning their third-straight Big Ten regular-season title, the No. 11/11 Penn State Lady Lions (22-6, 13-3 Big Ten) head to Indianapolis in search of a Big Ten Tournament Championship this weekend. Penn State is the top seed in the tournament and will open play against No. 8 seed Ohio State, who defeated No. 9 seed Northwestern in the first round. The Lady Lions' quarterfinal contest will be played at noon on Friday (March 7) and will air live on the Big Ten Network.

Dara Taylor defends against Cal Poly

Lucas, Taylor and Washington win Big Ten major awards

3/6/14

Penn State Lady Lion senior guard Maggie Lucas (Narberth, Pa.) garnered her second consecutive Big Ten Player of the Year honor to headline the list of three major award winners for the Lady Lions. Fellow senior guard Dara Taylor (Wilmington, Del.) was named the Big Ten's Defensive Player of the Year, while head coach Coquese Washington earned Big Ten Coach of the Year accolades for the third-straight season.

Ken Womack at Penn State Forum

Heard on Campus: Penn State Laureate Kenneth Womack at the Forum

3/6/14

“I don’t think the Beatles broke up because of any one person. I think that they had, in a lifecycle, generative fashion, reached the end of their road. They were ready to grow up and grow older. They were about to be 30. You just don’t want to hang out with the kid you knew when you were 14 when you are 30.”

— Kenneth Womack, the 2013-14 Penn State laureate, senior associate dean for Academic Affairs and professor of English and integrative arts at Penn State Altoona, speaking today (March 6) at The Penn State Forum Speaker Series held at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. A prolific writer of a variety of both scholarly and general-audience topics, Womack is highly regarded as an expert of popular culture, most notably of the Beatles, and is a frequent public speaker about “Fab Four 101” and similar themes.

Bulletin board in McFee Elementary School in Katy, Texas showing that the students are Penn State proud and college bound.

Penn State partnership makes Texas youngsters excited for college

3/6/14

“We are Penn State” is a phrase often heard around Happy Valley during football season and THON weekend, and it has become synonymous with students’ love for their school. But unbeknownst to many Penn Staters, there is a group of elementary school students in Texas chanting the same cheer.

Board committee hears risk oversight review

3/6/14

To ensure that Penn State's approach to safety, public health and environmental protection is uniform, the University has multiple safety and administrative policies in place, and maintains a variety of training programs at campuses across the Commonwealth, according to Ford Stryker, associate vice president for the Office of Physical Plant.

multilayer ceramic capacitor

New center expands materials research partnerships with industry

3/6/14

A new Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics, supported by the National Science Foundation and co-located at Penn State and North Carolina State University, will build on and expand the research capabilities of Penn State's long-running Center for Dielectrics Studies.

Old Main tower and clock

Times Higher Education global reputation survey ranks Penn State in Top 50

3/5/14

Penn State has ranked 39th among universities worldwide in the fourth annual Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, released today (March 5). The University entered the Top 50 for the first time in the 2014 reputation rankings, based on 10,536 responses, from 133 countries, to an invitation-only, worldwide academic survey of academics and researchers asked to identify institutions they considered to be the best in research and teaching.

New book describes innovative teaching practices of IST faculty members

3/5/14

University teaching and learning has never been more innovative than it is now, according to Jack Carroll, a distinguished professor at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). A new book that he edited describes a set of innovative teaching practices from IST faculty members that challenge assumptions and push beyond standard practices at the individual faculty and classroom level.

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