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Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP)

Participatory Budgeting Project selected for Brown Democracy Medal

4/23/14

A national organization that empowers citizens to exert greater control over public spending was selected as the first recipient of the Brown Democracy Medal, an award that will be presented annually by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts. The inaugural medal winner, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), is a nonprofit organization that promotes “participatory budgeting,” an inclusive process that empowers community members to make informed decisions about public spending. More than 30,000 people in communities across the United States have participated in programs that PBP helped spark over the last five years.

Study: How professional service firms can increase revenue, partner diversity

4/22/14

Female and minority junior partners in professional service firms may benefit from using different clientele-building strategies than their white male counterparts according to recent research co-authored by Forrest Briscoe of the Penn State Smeal College of Business. By encouraging and supporting these varying strategies, firms could increase both revenue and diversity among senior partners.

Stop Sexual Violence at Penn State

Rock Ethics Institute offers toolkit addressing sexual violence issues

4/22/14

The Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State is offering the Anti-Sexual Misconduct Toolkit for educators on its website. Educators can use the toolkit to bring the compelling and highly relevant issues of binge drinking, consent and campus sexual assault into the classroom.

Kristina Taylor-Porter at Children's Advocacy Center of Centre County

Teamwork key to success at Children's Advocacy Center

4/15/14

Recent legislation enacted in Pennsylvania to protect children and prevent child abuse and neglect will substantially strengthen the efforts of Centre County's new -- and first -- children's advocacy center. The Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) of Centre County opened in February and shares a building and partnership with Mount Nittany Health. The center, which received a jump start in 2013 with a contribution from Penn State, promotes a compassionate, multi-disciplinary approach to the prevention, identification, intervention and treatment of child abuse.

2014 Stand Up Award Winners from the Rock Ethics Institute

Penn State students recognized for taking an ethical stand

4/15/14

Two Penn State students received the 2014 Stand Up Award for showing courage and fortitude and demonstrating ethical leadership through personal example. The Stand Up awards are sponsored by the Rock Ethics Institute in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. This year's honorees are Zachary Brubaker, a physics major and president of the Penn State Alliance of the Blind and Sighted, and Maggie Cardin, a childhood and early adolescent education major and President of Penn State’s chapter of Aevidum, an organization devoted to helping teachers recognize and respond to student mental illness.

Making a Difference, Every Day

Making a Difference, Every Day ... Preventing Child Abuse Begins with You

4/10/14

James Hmurovich, CEO and President of Prevent Child Abuse America, will speak at 7:30 p.m. April 23 in the HUB Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus about why prevention matters, how communities across the country are responding to the challenge of promoting healthy child development and providing safe environments, and what is needed going forward.

Penn State students at fall commencement.

Penn State announces spring 2014 commencement events and speakers

4/7/14

This spring Penn State expects to award 13,301 diplomas to students University-wide who are completing 487 associate, 10,895 baccalaureate, 1,322 master’s, 240 law and 224 doctoral degrees, bringing the University’s number of graduates to an estimated total of more than 740,101.

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.

Computer rendering of mobile relief vehicle

Student's Apparatus X project gains momentum

4/3/14

Aaron Wertman, master of architecture student at Penn State, has taken his thesis project, Apparatus X: Empowering Disaster Victims, to another level. Wertman launched a website for Apparatus X and is currently raising funds to support his project.

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