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Croke Park coverage to give students real-world international news experience

7/28/14

The John Curley Center for Sports Journalism in Penn State's College of Communications is sponsoring a group of students on a high-impact, engaged scholarship experience, as they will take the skills they're learning in the classroom and put them to use in Ireland this August to cover the Croke Park Classic football game in Dublin between Penn State and the University of Central Florida.

Erickson Discovery Grant Program established to assist student academic pursuits

5/9/14

The Rodney A. Erickson Discovery Grant Program, with a first phase goal of $1 million and with private gifts of $500,000 already pledged from University trustees, administrative and academic leaders, and leading volunteers, has been established to award stipends to benefit the studies of undergraduate students. The endowment is being established as one of several tributes to President Erickson to recognize his impact on Penn State over his 37 years of service.

Energy engineering students conducting an energy audit at Kurtz Brothers in Clearfield, Pa.

Energy engineering students help local companies save on energy costs

4/23/14

A group of Penn State energy engineering students recently teamed with the University’s Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP) to conduct on-site energy audits for two Pennsylvania businesses as part of a senior research project. The audits are being used to help the companies save money by identifying ways to conserve energy and reduce waste in their industrial facilities.

A shawl by Negar Fadaeidehkordi

Students to display art work in Pittsburgh

4/21/14

More than two dozen Penn State undergraduate and graduate students will contribute artwork to the visual art exhibition “Digital Hand” at 709 Penn Gallery in Pittsburgh. The student artists will fill the entire gallery with their work from April 25 to May 25.

portrait of Stephen Zimmerer with a child

Landscape architecture student shares spring break experience in Panama

4/16/14

Landscape architecture student Stephen Zimmerer, a sophomore in the Schreyer Honors College, spent his spring break in Panama City with Penn State's Global Brigades chapter constructing greenhouses alongside the indigenous Piriati Embera community. He shared his experience in this article.

A view of London

Honors students to present Literary London videos

4/15/14

Students in Barbara Cantalupo’s Honors English literature course are scheduled to present video memoirs of their trip to London at Penn State Lehigh Valley on three upcoming dates. On April 23 and 28, students will present their videos at 1 p.m. in Room 135. On April 29, they will present at 12:15 p.m. in Room 220. This event is free and open to the public.

Computer rendering of Apparatus X

Engineering students lend expertise to Apparatus X; crowdfunding campaign begins

4/4/14

A student effort to build a mobile workshop to aid victims of natural disasters recently launched a campaign to complete the project. Dubbed Apparatus X, the project is a recreation vehicle converted into a mobile workshop, tool trailer, design studio and micro-living unit designed to be self-sustaining and independent from the grid.

Kate Thompson in the mountains in Madagascar

Out of Africa: Thesis research takes Schreyer Scholar to Madagascar

3/28/14

After working in an archaeology lab her first semester on campus, senior Kate Thompson conducted her thesis research on lemurs in Madagascar this past summer. Unlike other travels abroad led by a Penn State faculty member or in the company of other students, Thompson went to Madagascar first with her professor and then alone in collaboration with the Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership. Once there, she assembled a team to assist her with her research.

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