The National Security Agency, recognizing an urgent need for nationwide education about cyber technology, policy and law, has worked with a trio of Penn State professors to develop a comprehensive, online, and nationally offered cyber law and policy course.
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s national SBIR Road Tour is coming to Penn State's University Park campus on Sept. 19 as part of a 16-stop tour to connect entrepreneurs working on advanced technology to the country’s largest source of early-stage funding — the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.
A two-day conference focused on intercollegiate athletics — featuring an opening keynote address by ESPN’s Jay Bilas and closing remarks by former U.S. Rep. and NBA player Tom McMillen, president and CEO of the LEAD1 Association — will be conducted Oct. 17-18 on Penn State's University Park campus. The conference is coordinated by Penn State's interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Sports in Society.
As part of its 2019–20 season, the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State has curated eight presentations that will tell the stories of African American life in the United States throughout the last several centuries. By means of music, theater and dance, the center will focus on “The American Experience: Through an African-American Lens.”
Restless legs syndrome was associated with a nearly tripled risk of suicide and self-harm in a new study led by Penn State researchers.
Three Penn State Extension Master Gardener programs were lauded for excellence during the 2019 International Master Gardener Conference, held this summer at Pennsylvania's Valley Forge Casino Resort and attended by program volunteers from most of the 50 states, Canada, South Korea and England.
The Penn State Berks Freyberger Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the fall season with the Three Artist Exhibition, which runs from Sept. 5 to Oct. 10.
The Penn State World Campus Student Government Association was formed earlier this year to unite and advocate for the University’s online learners around the globe. Its executive board is comprised of 10 World Campus students who hail from five U.S. states and are pursuing eight different degree programs, and it's being led by two students pursuing online bachelor’s degrees through the College of Information Sciences and Technology.
Penn State Berks is offering a new baccalaureate degree program in writing and digital media, starting fall 2019.
Penn State Berks will begin offering a baccalaureate degree program in cybersecurity analytics and operations in the fall semester of 2019.
Katie Meckler, a captain in the U.S. Air Force, helps pilots navigate the skies. She’s completed six deployments around the world and has moved across the country for a new assignment. And she still manages to carry a 4.0 GPA in her online master’s degree program at Penn State.
Eleven new faculty join the College of Information Sciences and Technology to start the 2019-20 academic year. The new faculty join 12 others hired last year to support the college’s rapidly-growing student body, which will once again comprise a record number of incoming undergraduate students this fall. The addition of a bachelor’s degree program in human-centered design and development, in addition to degrees in data sciences and cybersecurity analytics and operations in the last three years, has drawn an influx of students seeking careers in these emerging fields.
The Woskob Family Gallery will debut its fall exhibition — an ambitious new wall drawing exploring the local landscape — on Sept. 6, with a reception from 5-8 p.m. Called "Folded Section," the work will be created over a two-week period by Assistant Teaching Professor of Landscape Architecture Alec Spangler and will be on view through Jan. 10, 2020.
Timothy McDonald, president and co-founder of Onion Flats LLC in Philadelphia, will deliver the 2019 Hankin Distinguished Lecture, titled “Leverage Points: Climate Change and the Imperative of Affordable Housing,” at 4 p.m. Nov. 13 in the HUB-Robeson Center's Freeman Auditorium at University Park.
Undergraduate students from across Penn State and the world capped off their Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs with a research symposium on July 30.
