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An Earth Day gallery of spring budding and blooming around Penn State's University Park campus. Earth Day is a worldwide movement marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and create global engagement around protecting the planet.
The Penn State football team welcomed first-year students, the Blue Band, and the Nittany Lion to Beaver Stadium on April 17 for a spring practice and scrimmage. The Nittany Lions will open the 2021 season Sept. 4 at Wisconsin.
A small gallery of photos introducing Tilly, a 4-week old lamb that was the runt of the litter during lambing season at Penn State's Sheep Center. Through the daily care and feedings provided by staff and students at the facility, Tilly is gaining strength, weight, and confidence, and will soon be able to join the rest of the herd.
Campus Recreation Fitness and Wellness welcomed students to celebrate Pride Month and participate in 'Pride Power Remix', a dance style workout session held every Friday afternoon at Penn State's Intramural Building Tennis Courts. ... Read more ›
Penn State's Daniel Bloyou controls the ball during the Big Ten Tournament semifinal vs. Michigan on April 14, 2021. Bloyou scored Penn State's first goal of the day in a 4-1 Nittany Lion win. Penn State now advances to the Big Ten Championship game to play Indiana.
A glimpse into the lab as undergraduate students in a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 294 (BMB 294) class participate in a course-based undergraduate research experience. The course is led by Dr. John Alumasa, an assistant research professor in Penn State's Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
EcoReps, student educators for sustainability at Penn State, hosted an Earth Hour 2021 event at Old Main on March 27. The students placed decorated, bag-lanterns around the steps and front of the building and the lights that normally illuminate Old Main were turned off at 8:30 pm to celebrate the globally recognized Earth Hour.
Rong Kou, an assistant research professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, uses a scanning electron microscope at Penn State's Millennium Science Complex to study the crystalline structure of a lithium metal oxide.
A gallery of photos from the production line at Penn State's Berkey Creamery as they churn out 500 pints of 'Alumni Swirl' ice cream. For more than 150 years, the Creamery has been an important Penn State landmark and a world leader in dairy production and food science.
A gallery of photos from an afternoon at the 'Mindful Making' series. Penn State Health Promotion and Wellness has teamed up with Student Engagement Programs and the Center for Performing Arts to offer this free series of events that combines relaxation techniques with fun and easy art projects.
Tawanda Zimudzi, part of the technical research staff at Penn State's Materials Research Institute, pours liquid nitrogen into a cryo-trap to clear contaminants in a vacuum chamber before starting a new molecular spectroscopy study. Molecular spectroscopy is the study of a material's stability as molecules undergo change.
In the Media
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Research
Clinical trial completion rates decline during COVID-19 pandemic
Social distancing and lockdowns may have reduced the spread of COVID-19, but researchers from Penn State College of Medicine also report those actions may have affected clinical researchers’ ability to finish trials. Study completion rates dropped worldwide between 13% and 23%, depending on the type of research sponsor and geographic location, between April and October 2020.
April 7 2021
