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Smeal students encouraged to investigate hiring companies' core values

4/21/14

Penn State Smeal College of Business Director of Honor and Integrity Jennifer Eury encourages students to use a vast array of resources to learn about a company’s culture and to find an organization whose values also align with their personal values, especially as they plan their careers.

Penn State Scoreboard: Monday, April 21, 2014

4/21/14

Friday's results
Men's tennis: Penn State 7, Nebraska 0
Women's tennis: Penn State 4, Nebraska 3
Softball: Wisconsin 6, Penn State 3
Women's lacrosse: Penn State 12, Johns Hopkins 10
Baseball: Illinois 6, Penn State 3
Men's volleyball: Penn State 3, Rutgers-Newark 0
Women's gymnastics at NCAA Championships: 12th place out of 12 (194.825)

Saturday's results
Men's golf Rutherford Intercollegiate Day 1: ninth place out of 14
Softball: Wisconsin 4, Penn State 0
Men's lacrosse: Penn State 10, Delaware 6
Baseball: Illinois 8, Penn State 3
Softball: Wisconsin 5, Penn State 2
Men's volleyball: Penn State 3, NJIT 0

Sunday's results
Men's golf Rutherford Intercollegiate Day 2: eighth place out of 14
Women's tennis: Iowa 6, Penn State 1
Baseball: Illinois 7, Penn State 6
Men's tennis: Penn State 6, Iowa 1

Today's schedule
No Penn State varsity teams in action

Old Main

Old Main welcomes office composting to 'close the loop on waste'

4/21/14

This week Old Main became the 50th building at University Park to launch möbius — Penn State Waste Management. This initiative includes office composting and expanded recycling to help the University divert 85 percent of its solid waste from the landfill. “Penn State wants to demonstrate the same level of excellence in management of all its resources as it does in its education and research activities,” said Nick Jones, executive vice president and provost at Penn State.

PA Center for the Book selects baker's dozen

4/21/14

Among the many children’s books published last year, 13 were chosen by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book to form A Baker’s Dozen: The Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy for 2014.

Community organizer to share story of resiliency after Hurricane Katrina

4/18/14

Community center executive director and community organizer Mack McClendon is traveling the East Coast sharing his story of resiliency after Hurricane Katrina. At 3 p.m. Saturday, April 26, McClendon will speak on Penn State’s University Park campus in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space. The event is free and open to the public.

An adult male caribou, photographed in Greenland

Penn State to host Polar Day 2014

4/18/14

Penn State University’s Polar Day, a free public event celebrating the natural and cultural value of the Polar Regions, will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 19, in the HUB-Robeson Center's Freeman Auditorium. The event will begin with a lecture on rapid change in the Arctic by Julienne Stroeve, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. Stroeve has briefed government officials around the world on climate change and Arctic ice, and has studied sea ice at its lowest extent in the Arctic Ocean.

Penn State softball's Lexi Knief swings at a pitch

Softball welcomes Badgers for weekend series

4/18/14

Penn State softball returns to Big Ten action this weekend, hosting Wisconsin for a three-game series. The Nittany Lions enter the weekend at No. 8 in the conference standings while the Badgers hold the No. 5 spot.

Women's lacrosse midfielder Kelly Lechner

No. 12/16 women's lacrosse hosts No. 7/5 John Hopkins Friday

4/18/14

The No. 12/16 Penn State women's lacrosse team (8-6, 2-3 ALC) will play its final ALC regular-season game when it hosts No. 7/5 Johns Hopkins (12-2, 2-2 ALC) for a national-televised contest on BTN Friday, April 18. Opening draw at the Penn State Lacrosse Field is set for 6 p.m.

Penn State senior gymnast Kassidy Stauder performs the floor routine

Evening session awaits No. 15 women's gymnastics at NCAA Championships

4/18/14

When the Penn State women's gymnastics team arrives at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex it will mark the Nittany Lions' 17th overall appearance in school history and the first since 2009 at the NCAA Championships. The 17 championship advents rank the Nittany Lions 10th in NCAA history and are third among Big Ten institutions.

Walseth named North Dakota State head coach

4/18/14

Penn State Lady Lion assistant coach Maren Walseth has been named the head coach of the North Dakota State women's basketball program. Walseth, who played at Penn State from 1998-01, has been an assistant coach on Coquese Washington's staff for the past seven seasons.

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