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Tristan Pierce and Sam Roselli in action on the court.

Campus alumni enter $2 million basketball tournament

7/10/18

Two former Penn State DuBois basketball players are on their way to Los Angeles to play for millions this week. Tristan Pierce and Sam Roselli both joined the DuBois Dream after graduation, where they've had the opportunity to continue playing the sport they love on a professional, minor league level. The Dream has been selected to participate in ESPN's "The Basketball Tournament" (TBT) running this weekend in Los Angeles, California.

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Suppressing negative emotions during health scare may whip up spiral of fear

7/10/18

People use a lot of different strategies to handle fear — including avoiding bad news, reappraising the information, contesting the news, or suppressing the fear. Of those strategies, a team of researchers found that suppressing the fear is actually counter-productive. Trying to suppress worries during a health scare, like the recent Zika outbreak, may lead to an ever-intensifying cycle of emotional suppression and fear, according to the researchers.

Rebekah Dawson

Dawson honored with Powe Award

7/10/18

Rebekah Dawson, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, has been awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award by Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

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Working together for global good: Penn State, Oxfam join forces

7/10/18

Developing lasting solutions to the problems of poverty, hunger and social injustice is the cornerstone of a new partnership between Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and Oxfam America, the U.S. affiliate of Oxfam, the global organization working to end the injustice of poverty in 90 countries around the world.

A close-up shot of the front of a Life Lion EMS ambulance. A woman sitting in the driver’s seat works with controls on the interior roof of the vehicle.

Life Lion EMS: Everyday heroes

7/10/18

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear shirts, professional cargo pants, a utility belt and boots — the uniform of an emergency medical technician.

Twitter data used for crisis response

Improving disaster response through Twitter data

7/10/18

When disaster strikes, emergency responders often use social media data to understand the big-picture impact of an event. But thanks to an international team of researchers, organizations could soon have access to real-time, automatically generated summaries of the collateral impact of a disaster based on crowdsourced Twitter data.

Mike Eisenreich

Alumnus applies IST skills in global marketing role at Bloomberg LP

7/10/18

As a student in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, Mike Eisenreich learned how to approach solving complex problems using technology. The 2003 alumnus still relies on those skills today as global head of brand strategy, digital, creative and content marketing at Bloomberg LP.

Global Programs announces Penn State/Split 2018 Fund Awardees

7/10/18

The Global Engagement Network is a group of strategic peer partnerships around the world, developed around the natural links between faculty and research interests. Global Programs supports these collaborative research projects through a development fund and has announced the awardees, whose projects primarily focus on long-term sustainability.

Side-by-side headshots of Dr. Robert Harbaugh and Dr. Krish Sathian.

Harbaugh and Sathian assume new roles

7/10/18

Dr. Robert E. Harbaugh, distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, has been named a senior vice president of Penn State Health Medical Group. Dr. Krish Sathian, chair of the Department of Neurology and professor of neurology, neural and behavioral sciences, and psychology, assumed leadership of the Neuroscience Institute, effective July 1.

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