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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.

Dairy cows in barn

Penn State-led project aimed at reducing greenhouse gases from livestock

3/4/14

As greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture rise worldwide, a researcher in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is leading a new international project aimed at helping to reduce such emissions from livestock production. The $1.65 million initiative involves a consortium of researchers from nine countries whose goal is to compile scientific data and develop practices that promise to address the problem.

Cameron to moderate discussion on Affordable Care Act website

3/3/14

The issues plaguing the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) website have been widely publicized, causing major roadblocks for President Obama’s signature healthcare initiative. Upon the website’s launch in November 2013, technical glitches made enrollment in the ACA’s federally run insurance exchanges a problem for millions of consumers. According to Brian Cameron, executive director of the Center for Enterprise Architecture (EA) at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), many of the technical problems might have been avoided if enterprise architecture practices had been better employed in the website’s design and development.

Red Cell Lab partners with THON to ensure security of participants and onlookers

Red Cell lab uses military tactics to ensure THON security

2/20/14

On Feb. 21 to 23, more than 15,000 students across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will participate in the 46-hour no-sitting, no-sleeping dance marathon known as THON Weekend. The event is a culmination of the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, a year-long fundraising and awareness campaign for the fight against pediatric cancer. Considering that THON is a high-profile, heavily attended event, ensuring the security of participants and onlookers is a major concern for organizers. This year, for the first time, THON is partnering with a laboratory in Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) that uses military tactics to detect and combat security threats.

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett

Middle East experts to discuss Iran and U.S. policy

2/19/14

In partnership with the Penn State School of International Affairs, the Center for Global Studies will sponsor a discussion with Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett, authors of "Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran," from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in 22 Deike Building. The discussion, titled "Iran: What has Washington Been Thinking?" is free and open to the public.

Asian longhorned beetle on a stick

Asian longhorned beetles pheromone could be used to manage pest

2/13/14

Female Asian longhorned beetles lure males to their locations by laying down sex-specific pheromone trails on tree surfaces, according to an international team of researchers. The finding could lead to the development of a tool to manage this invasive pest that affects about 25 tree species in the United States.

Wild Onion Nurse

Speaker to focus on women as healers in ‘Wild Onion Nurse’ talk

2/11/14

"Wild Onion Nurse: Women as Healers in Traditional and Contemporary Societies," a presentation, will be held noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 19, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library on the University Park campus of Penn State. The presentation, which is sponsored by the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge and the University Libraries, is free and open to the public.

wavy water

Wetlands are a natural solution to our ‘water blues’

2/10/14

Standing in a red raincoat and boots, Robert Brooks is surrounded by about a foot of water and plants as high as his shoulders. Brooks is a professor of geography and ecology and he discussed the research his team conducts on Pennsylvania’s wetlands in this video as he treks through the water, analyzing each and every plant. He said wetlands provide a number of free ecosystem services.

Streambank fence and buffer

New center to explore solutions for nutrient pollution

1/31/14

A multi-pronged, systems approach to solving water pollution caused by nutrients in the environment is the focus of a new center housed in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. With a $2.2 million Science to Achieve Results grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, researchers will launch the Center for Integrated Multi-scale Nutrient Pollution Solutions.

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