Children’s Hospital presents Community Champion Award to Highmark Foundation
4/27/17
Penn State Children’s Hospital has recognized the Highmark Foundation for its work in bullying prevention in children and adolescents.
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Penn State and Geisinger team up to establish new program for graduate students
4/27/17
A new $2.4 million program for graduate students seeking to contribute to breakthrough discoveries in medicine and biology has been established at Penn State. The new Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge Training Program brings together Pennsylvania data scientists, biomedical researchers, and life-science researchers at Penn State and the Geisinger Genomic Medicine Institute to accelerate advances in the biomedical and life sciences.
After-school program provides STEM learning through fun with robots
4/25/17
Every Thursday for the past six weeks, Dan Jackson, instructor in astronomy , physics and mathematics at Penn State Lehigh Valley, has been running a LEGO Robotics after-school program at Roosevelt Elementary School in the Allentown School District.
Penn State architecture students participate in CANstruction State College
4/25/17
A group of Penn State architecture students competed in CANstruction State College, a design-build challenge and charity art exhibition benefiting the State College Food Bank. Members of the American Institute of Architecture Students comprised one of six design teams that built structures out of cans of food on April 20 at the Nittany Mall in State College.
President Barron applauds undergraduate work on concussion screening
4/25/17
Health Policy and Administration student Matthew Roda, and his company, developed the “Edge,” which is comprised of six panels of LED touch screens that can test for brain injury by measuring reaction time, hand-eye coordination, and converting those responses into standardized data.
Professor invited to discuss combating climate change at national TED talk
4/24/17
David Titley, professor of international affairs and of practice in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at Penn State, will discuss the role the military could play in combating climate change during the TED 2017 conference. Titley will join seven other speakers from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. April 26 for Session 6: Planet, Protection, hosted by Chris Anderson, the owner of TED, a nonprofit organization that provides idea-based talks.
Eleven Penn State students to present research to PA legislators on April 25
4/21/17
Undergraduate students representing seven of Penn State’s campuses will present their research to legislators at the 15th annual Undergraduate Research at the Capitol – Pennsylvania (URC-PA) conference, taking place at the Capitol Complex in Harrisburg on April 25.
Titans of entrepreneurship, industry to conclude Penn State Startup Week
4/19/17
After a weeklong celebration of ingenuity and inspiration, Penn State Startup Week will culminate with a series of keynote speeches from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 21 in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Alumni Hall. This high-profile event will bring together top entrepreneurs and innovators from across the country to share their stories and to inspire students, faculty, staff and community members.
Interns in Professional Development School take time to give back to community
4/18/17
Prospective teachers in Penn State's PDS program enjoy a variety of philanthropic interests.
New scholarship created to support Penn State Lehigh Valley students
4/18/17
Penn State Alumnus, Shane McGee, and his wife, Katelyn Powers, have provided the gift to create the Penn State Lehigh Valley McGee Scholarship, a scholarship in support of Penn State Lehigh Valley students.
Penn State Department of Computer Science offers summer camp for girls
4/14/17
Computer science is a fundamental gateway to influence our software-driven society, yet according to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 18 percent of undergraduate computer science degrees in the U.S. are awarded to women. The Penn State Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, wants to see this percentage increase, and is offering “Girls Solving Societal Problems Through Computer Science,” for students entering seventh to 10th grades this fall.
Researchers recruiting citizen-scientists for 'Great Pumpkin Project'
4/14/17
A researcher in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is reaching out to Master Gardeners, teachers, students and other interested parties to participate in a citizen-science project that ultimately could benefit growers, crops, pollinators and the environment. "The Great Pumpkin Project" is aimed at describing the geographic distribution of important crop plants and the insects and microbes with which they interact.
FaceAge course provides opportunity for intergenerational connections
4/13/17
HDFS 497, “FaceAge: Perspectives on Aging” is an eight-week course that brings together HDFS students and adults aged 50 and older through Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Penn State to provide real-life, intergenerational synergy. The course, which launched this spring, focuses on perceptions and perspectives of the aging experience and offers the opportunity to learn from different perspectives and generational cohorts.
Abington theater presents students' oral histories
4/12/17
Eight Penn State Abington students will celebrate the diverse culture that defines the Abington experience through an ensemble-based production titled “Spring ’17: The Diversity Project” on April 20 and 21.
Invent Penn State’s Fund For Innovation helps start seven new ventures
4/12/17
A little less than two years after the launch of the Fund for Innovation, Invent Penn State has backed nearly 50 emerging Penn State technologies and has provided startup funding to promising new ventures that were born out of the program.