The Appalachian communities that enjoyed persistent economic growth following the 2008 Great Recession have a number of factors in common, according to researchers who analyzed all 420 counties in the Appalachian region. Their findings will help guide future economic development strategies across Appalachia.
While fitness trackers and other satellite data-enabled devices might be great for health and fitness, these and other technologies that use information from private and government satellites may cause huge problems for people and policymakers, according to Penn State researchers.
A record 186 companies attended Penn State Behrend's Spring Career and Internship Fair, held March 20 in the college’s Junker Center. Nearly 750 students attended the event, which was sponsored by the Academic and Career Planning Center.
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, hosted Petra Mitchell, president and CEO of Catalyst Connection, on March 20 in the latest installment of the CEO Conversations series. Iman Young, a sophomore business major, moderated the discussion.
The Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute invites facility professionals to register for its upcoming facilities management course — Fundamentals of High Performance Buildings (FHPB). Scheduled for April 23 to 25 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center in State College, the FHPB course previously has only been offered to General Service Administration personnel.
In December 2018, a team of five Penn State students from the College of Arts and Architecture, the Eberly College of Science, the College of Engineering, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology joined forces to earn the top spot in the international Kaggle University Hackathon, the first-ever university hackathon of its kind.
Jean Brenchley, professor emeritus of microbiology and biotechnology at Penn State, has committed to establish the Dr. Jean E. Brenchley Endowment for WPSU-FM through an estate gift. Brenchley’s preference is for the funds to be used to ensure the continuation of “Morning Edition” and “Science Friday,” two programs produced by NPR, that she said are her longtime companions in daily life.
Presentations on 3D animation, virtual reality and augmented reality, as well as musical performances and a slow-motion video booth, will all be offered March 25-26 during the fourth-annual Digital Media Festival at Penn State Behrend.
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, will host Jeff Erdely, co-founder and partner at SESCO Enterprises LLC, at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, in the Student Center of the Williams Building.
Wanting to make a career change often means needing to earn a second degree. The accelerated nursing program at Penn State Altoona is a popular choice for many returning to college.
Penn State civil engineering senior Nicole Dato was named one of the 10 American Society of Civil Engineers 2019 New Faces of Civil Engineering in the college category.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Elizabeth C. Strauss, assistant professor of history at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, at noon on March 28 in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center. Strauss will present “And Tomorrow Death Will Come: Individual and Collective Aging in the Łódź Ghetto, 1939-1944.”
Students and administrators from Penn State Beaver, Greater Allegheny and New Kensington traveled to the Pennsylvania Capitol for Penn State Capital Day on March 20, 2019.
Penn State alumnus Jay Yonamine, head of data science and global patents at Google, will deliver a public lecture titled “A History of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning” at 11:15 a.m. on Friday, March 29, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium.
Liat Margolis, director of the Master of Landscape Architecture program and assistant dean of research at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, will speak about interdisciplinary design at 6 p.m on March 27 as part of the Stuckeman School’s Lecture and Exhibit Series. The lecture will be held in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space.
