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Festival will bring Malaysian ambassador, 600 students to Penn State

3/5/15

Penn State will host more than 600 Malaysian students for the first ever East Coast Festival on March 6 to 8. The festival will bring Malaysian students studying in America and Canada as well as a delegation from the Embassy of Malaysia to University Park for a weekend of sports, debate and a Battle of the Bands.

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'Tip of the iceberg' in concussion treatment

3/5/15

In an attempt to find a better approach to treating and preventing sports-related concussions, a Penn State faculty member is using cutting-edge medical technology to explore the effects of cooling helmets on brain injuries.

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Online master's degree in curriculum and instruction has expanded areas of study

3/5/15

Teachers with advanced knowledge in subject areas such as science, technology, engineering and math are needed to help improve STEM education in the country’s schools. STEM education is one of the emphases teachers can study in the expanded Penn State online master of education in curriculum and instruction. The expanded program, offered through Penn State World Campus and the College of Education, now has five emphasis areas for study.

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Special on-campus hotel room rates in effect for bad weather

3/4/15

With inclement weather expected through the evening today (March 4), Penn State's Nittany Lion Inn and Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel are making single or double occupancy rooms available to faculty and staff who may not want to travel home.

Lecture to explore Ezra Pound

3/4/15

At 12:30 p.m. March 16, Mykola Polyuha, assistant professor of Russian and German at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, will present “The Labours of Tovarisch: Ezra Pound’s Slavic Worlds,” in Room 102 of the Kern Building.

Police investigate report of indecent assault

3/4/15

An indecent assault was reported to University Police at 10:37 a.m. today (March 4). The reported assault occurred at approximately 4:15 p.m. Monday, March 2, near the southwest corner of the Health and Human Development Building.

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Earliest known fossil of the genus Homo dates to 2.8 to 2.75 million years ago

3/4/15

The earliest known record of the genus Homo -- the human genus -- represented by a lower jaw with teeth, recently found in the Afar region of Ethiopia, dates to between 2.8 and 2.75 million years ago, according to an international team of geoscientists and anthropologists. They also dated other fossils to between 2.84 and 2.58 million years ago, which helped reconstruct the environment in which the individual lived

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Lavin named executive director of Institute for the Study of Business Markets

3/4/15

The Institute for the Study of Business Markets, which connects academic research with business-to-business marketing practitioners around the globe, has announced the appointment of Suzanne Lavin as its executive director. She replaces Ralph Oliva, who will step down April 6 after nearly 20 years as executive director.

Trustee panel for students canceled

3/4/15

The trustee panel for students, scheduled for tonight (March 4), has been canceled along with the cancellation of classes and activities on the University Park campus.

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