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Penn State-run Pennsylvania Space Grant Program turns 25

1/2/14

For 25 years, the Pennsylvania Space Grant College and Fellowship Program has been working to help up-and-coming scientists and engineers pursue careers and dreams in those fields. The program, which is run by the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium at Penn State, is one of 52 across the country that are part of the NASA-run initiative to support educational initiatives in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Consumer behavior class presents marketing plans for Arts Fest events

12/18/13

Several groups of Penn State Smeal College of Business undergraduates put their marketing creativity to work this semester developing marketing plans for BookFestPA, a literary event of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts (CPFA), and First Night, a CPFA-sponsored New Years Eve celebration.

Two students hold a newborn lamb.

Rural Bedford Seminar offers students a glimpse of rural life

12/6/13

The Penn State College of Education is presenting students with a unique opportunity to experience learning in a rural setting. The three-credit course, CI 295C: The Rural Bedford Seminar, spans most of two weeks from May 11-23, during Maymester.

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Transportation conference will draw industry experts, debut new technologies

12/5/13

The 19th annual Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference will be held from Dec. 11 to 13 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus. Sponsored by the Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, the event includes seminars facilitated by leading experts, opportunities for discussion among participants and a variety of topic-specific workshops.

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Penn State announces fall 2013 commencement events and speakers

12/2/13

This fall Penn State expects to award approximately 5,133 diplomas to students University-wide who are completing 263 associate, 3,736 baccalaureate, 919 master’s, 12 law and 203 doctoral degrees, estimates as of Dec. 2. Following is a University-wide compilation of commencement ceremonies and speaker information.

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Landscape architecture students bring new eyes, ideas to Pittsburgh neighborhood

12/2/13

Fourth- and fifth-year Penn State landscape architecture students are wrapping up their experiences in the Pittsburgh Studio, a 5-credit class that puts them in target communities in the city of Pittsburgh and surrounding urban areas and charges them to create conceptual designs that can help people imagine what their hometowns could become.

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New chancellor appointed at Penn State Brandywine

11/22/13

Kristin Woolever, president of Prescott College in Arizona, has been named chancellor at Penn State Brandywine. Woolever succeeds Sophia Wisniewska, who accepted a position as regional chancellor at the University of Southern Florida in St. Petersburg in March 2013.

“Dr. Woolever will bring strong administrative and strategic planning experience, as well as a deep understanding of the beneficial partnership between the academy and the community. She has a history of creating positive change,” said Madlyn Hanes, Penn State vice president for Commonwealth Campuses. “We are pleased to welcome her leadership to Penn State Brandywine.”

Students enjoy the view of Wintergreen Gorge at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.

Architects to discuss Penn State Behrend trail project

11/20/13

The first public discussion of a $48,000 study of the trail system in Wintergreen Gorge, a wooded area on and adjacent to the campus of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will be held Wednesday, Nov. 20, in the college’s Reed Auditorium. Anyone with interest in the gorge – an area favored by local hikers, trail runners and mountain bikers – is encouraged to attend the meeting, which will begin at 6:30 p.m.

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

Lehigh Valley students to deliver Thanksgiving dinners to Sixth Street Shelter

11/19/13

The Penn State Lehigh Valley community has once again held its annual Thanksgiving Food Drive to help ease the burden for local families, continuing a campus tradition for more than a decade. Beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 22, students, faculty and staff will gather to sort donations and deliver complete Thanksgiving dinners to the Sixth Street Shelter in Allentown.

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