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Smeal Alumni in Profile: MIS alumna's business fosters women's health, wellness

5/2/13

Alumna Shubha N. Janardhan graduated from the Penn State Smeal College of Business in 2004 with a degree in management science and information systems with a specialization in health care. She’s now using her experience to run her family’s company, Haselfre, including a new initiative that provides wholesome care to women in different stages of motherhood.

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Abington faculty member earns Career Development Professorship

4/29/13

Penn State Abington associate professor of marketing Shruti Gupta has been named the recipient of the Ogontz '65 Career Development Professorship (CDP) to support her research into the consumer behavior of the 4 billion people worldwide who earn about $2 per day.

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Applications being accepted for scholarships to study Arabic at Penn State

4/26/13

Scholarships are now available for area high school students and Pennsylvania college students who plan to study the Arabic language this summer at The Language Institute of Penn State. In the intensive, four-week STARTALK Arabic Academy program, which meets Monday through Friday from June 13 to July 10, students can complete the equivalent of a full semester's study of Arabic and receive four academic credits for Penn State's Arabic 001 course.

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Penn State teams up with Taiwanese university to create learning sciences center

4/24/13

Penn State University and National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) have developed a collaboration to establish the Advanced Center for the Study of the Learning Sciences. Under a proposal funded by the Taiwan National Science Council, center researchers will devise ways for educators to keep pace with rapidly changing information and technology in society. Behavioral and neuro-cognitive research will serve as focal points for the center’s work.

The 2013 Hubert Humphrey Fellows along with staff of the program.

Humphrey Fellowship has far-reaching positive effects

4/19/13

The academic year for the 11 Humphrey Fellows who worked and studied at Penn State this year may be drawing to a close, but its effects will continue. These international professionals are excited to build on the skills and knowledge that they attained through the Humphrey Fellowship Program.

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Penn State Abington students: The value of study abroad

4/17/13

Penn State Abington students have multiple options to study abroad including faculty led courses with international components and semester and yearlong programs. Exploring the world and making new connections has an invaluable impact both personally and professionally.

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Penn State digitizes critical data to aid in Fukushima cleanup

4/17/13

When a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit Japan in March 2011, its shockwaves caused a nuclear meltdown that rivaled Chernobyl: the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Luckily, the Penn State Engineering Library already had a collection of documents that Japanese scientists knew would help them in their recovery efforts.

U.S. Army veteran and Penn State student Matthew Ceccato was chosen for a 2013 Presidential Management Fellowship

Penn State student Matthew Ceccato named Presidential Management Fellow

4/12/13

If Matthew Ceccato has to name one quality that powered him through his journey from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to a Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF), it would be the determination he learned as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army. On his second deployment to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005, he was wounded in combat by a gunshot through both legs that left him unable to walk.

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Feed the Future fellows from Africa to share indigenous knowledge perspectives

4/12/13

Ten women scientists from five African countries will share their perspectives on indigenous knowledge at a presentation on April 24, in the University Libraries. "Bringing indigenous knowledge of the people of rural Africa into the academy: a presentation" will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.

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Nuclear security program announces first graduates

6/7/13

An effort to meet the growing need for trained nuclear security professionals passed a milestone recently as the first graduates from a joint effort by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Penn State, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Texas A&M were announced.

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Campus faculty member tapped as expert for United Nations' efforts

6/14/13

The United Nations has taken notice of the work of Penn State DuBois' own assistant professor of economics Evelyn Wamboye. Officials in the U.N.'s Committee for Development Policy, who work to improve the lives of people living in undeveloped countries, have asked Wamboye to contribute her expertise to their efforts.

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Inspiring Research-Honey Bees

6/11/13

Whole colonies are dying in record numbers. Why the bees are dying is a mystery. Penn State, one of the country's leading honey bee research facilities, has been investigating the problem.

"World on Trial" will examine whether US use of drones is a violation of international human rights law

National security, civil rights experts to put U.S. drone program on trial

6/3/13

Episode two of "World on Trial," an international human rights television and Web program produced by Penn State Dickinson School of Law, will feature Judge James E. Baker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces as presiding judge, and Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union, and former F-14 pilot and law of war scholar Michael Lewis as lead attorneys. The series presents both sides of sharply contested international human rights issues in the context of courtroom trials before live multinational juries.

One of the densest objects in the universe, a neutron star about 10,000 light years from Earth, has been discovered suddenly putting the brakes on its spinning speed.

Super-dense star is first ever found suddenly slowing its spin

5/29/13

One of the densest objects in the universe, a neutron star about 10,000 light years from Earth, has been discovered suddenly putting the brakes on its spinning speed. The event is a mystery that holds important clues for understanding how matter reacts when it is squeezed more tightly than the density of an atomic nucleus -- a state that no laboratory on Earth has achieved.

Penn State military students during World War II marching on the University Park campus

Campus landmarks honor military service of Penn Staters

5/23/13

Memorial Day at Penn State is an appropriate time to reflect on those members of the University community who made the supreme sacrifice in military service to their country. The University Park campus holds a number of landmarks that commemorate those heroes.

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Married Penn State Guggenheim Fellows a rarity

5/21/13

When both partners of a married couple are building careers in academia, it can be a struggle to live in the same town. Whether teaching, conducting research abroad or on sabbatical, Penn State distinguished professors Judith Kroll and David Rosenbaum have always made it their priority.

Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Juliana Mercer is shown on patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

World Campus military and veteran student enrollment continues to rise

5/9/13

The flexibility of online education is ideal for many adults who want to learn when and where it's convenient to them, and especially beneficial to active-duty military service members deployed in a war zone or where Internet access is limited. Since Penn State's World Campus launched 15 years ago, enrollment by active-duty military service members and veterans has grown steadily -- and more than 120 percent in the last four years.

Couple gives $2.2 million to establish faculty chair in geosciences

5/8/13

Two anonymous donors have made a $2.2 million gift to the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Department of Geosciences to create a faculty chair. Both hold doctorates and have an intimate understanding of the need for faculty support. The couple is remembering Penn State through a bequest that will leave a lasting legacy and support work in geochemistry.

Penn State Harrisburg student offered Fulbright to teach English abroad

5/6/13

Penn State Harrisburg senior interdisciplinary humanities major Cassandra Romanowski has been offered a Fulbright grant to teach English in Malaysia next year. Of the program’s hundreds of applicants from across the country, she was one of only 75 who made the cut -– a first-time achievement for a student at the college.