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IST researchers aim to increase community engagement through local news app

11/1/13

In recent years, Twitter and other social media sites have played an increasingly important role in reporting local news through personal perspectives. Researchers at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) have devised a smartphone app that integrates local news articles and socially generated tweets, with a goal of increasing community awareness and engagement by enabling users to access more dynamic community news information.

Former Congressman Joseph Sestak named General Omar N. Bradley Chair

Former Congressman Sestak to present 'Leadership to Restore the American Dream'

10/31/13

Joseph Sestak -- former congressman, former U.S. Navy three-star admiral and the Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership, a faculty appointment shared among Penn State Law, Penn State School of International Affairs, Dickinson College, and the U.S. Army War College -- will present “Leadership to Restore the American Dream,” at 6 p.m. Nov. 4, on the Carlisle campus of Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. The public is invited to attend.

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Extra Life 2013

10/29/13

The Game Development Club at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will participate in a 48-hour gaming marathon beginning at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1.

48-hour game marathon to raise money for children's health

10/29/13

The Game Development Club at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will participate in a 48-hour gaming marathon beginning at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. Club members will binge on horror-themed console, card and tabletop games, all the while raising money for charity: To play, they have to collect donations for the Children’s Miracle Network.

Canned food collected for the 2012 Penn State Lehigh Valley Thanksgiving food drive.

Lehigh Valley campus to hold annual Thanksgiving food drive

10/29/13

Penn State Lehigh Valley Student Life will hold its annual Thanksgiving food drive from Nov. 4 to 22. Once collected, the items will create complete Thanksgiving meals for families served by the Sixth Street Shelter in Allentown.

More than 200 attend Business Day at Penn State Behrend

10/25/13

A stock market simulation and mock business classes highlighted the activities that more than 200 Erie, Crawford and Allegheny county high school students participated in Oct. 24 at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.

University Park Regional Medical Campus receives $2.5 million state grant

10/14/13

On Oct. 14, representatives from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the University Park Regional Campus of Penn State College of Medicine accepted a $2.5 million state grant from Pennsylvania State Senator Jake Corman. The grant will provide vital support to help the Regional Campus with its mission to attract more medical students to train and pursue careers in primary care and to improve access to high quality health care for the state’s most vulnerable and underserved populations.

Research team with fuel cell testing equipment

Penn State research expenditures top $848 million in 2012-13, set record

10/11/13

Penn State's research expenditures climbed to a record high of $848.2 million for the 2012-13 fiscal year, up 5 percent over the previous year, according to Interim Vice President for Research Neil Sharkey. The total included $537.3 million in federal funds, an increase of $30 million from fiscal 2012.

WPSU Conversations LIVE

‘Conversations LIVE’ to tackle sports-related concussions Oct. 10

10/9/13

WPSU-TV’s next ‘Conversations LIVE’ will tackle the effects of concussions and the new techniques in place to prevent these injuries. Host Patty Satalia will discuss sports-related concussions with four experts of the topic: Jim Gilmore, Ruben Echemendía, Camdin Crouse and Wayne Sebastianelli.

Dennis Murphy ATV safety demo

Penn State to develop national approach to youth farm safety education

10/8/13

Reducing the risk of injury or death for young people on farms is the goal of a new project aimed at developing a coordinated national approach to youth farm safety education. Led by safety experts in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, the Safety in Agriculture for Youth project will serve as an umbrella for curricula, programs, activities and expertise across the country, with an eye toward increasing safety and health knowledge and reducing hazard and risk exposure to youth on farms and ranches.

Two students pull weeds from rain garden

Penn State students help rebuild stormwater systems in Philadelphia

10/7/13

The Water Blues, Green Solutions Stormwater Management Project -- an initiative coordinated by Penn State Cooperative Extension, Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture and Penn State Public Media -- brought together Penn State students, staff and community volunteers to revamp two green infrastructure sites in the heart of Philadelphia.

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