A fisherman's curiosity led to identification of the correlation between microbial communities in recreational freshwater locales and seasonal environmental changes, according to a team of researchers from Penn State.
Signals from mostly destroyed planets can be heard millions of years later on Earth, providing important information about how solar systems age.
Lara LaDage, associate professor of biology at Penn State Altoona, has joined Undergraduate Research for a one-year faculty fellow appointment.
College of Liberal Arts alumnus Joshua Branch has received a Youth Justice Leadership Institute Fellowship from the National Juvenile Justice Network.
Penn State Greater Allegheny student Tommi Barnes will soon move to University Park, but not before making a splash in the Pittsburgh Opera’s education unit. Barnes is extending the opera’s outreach around the tri-state area.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Centre Stage will kick off its 2019-20 season with a Sneak Preview Celebration, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, September 4, on the Olsan-Stone Terrace and Playhouse Theatre. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the directors, designers, and students who will be producing the upcoming shows; catch a snippet of a performance or two; view designs and renderings for the upcoming season; and purchase tickets to the productions. Sneak Preview tickets are $25.
Attending Penn State, and taking advantage of the related experiences and opportunities, has been a confidence-boosting experience for telecommunications major Trey Adams.
The collection of 500 letters have been preserved by the library to offer students and researchers firsthand accounts of the everyday lived experiences of local soldiers during the war. An interactive exhibit is currently on display to the public in the Robert E. Eiche Library.
A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around stars similar to our sun.
Penn State Harrisburg is now offering a new bachelor of science degree in biobehavioral health in the college’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education.
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences has awarded principal investigator Eunhye Song, Harold and Inge Marcus Early Career Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State, $140,000 to push the frontier of large-scale discrete simulation optimization. Song’s goal is to create a new algorithm that is computationally efficient while simultaneously providing a statistical optimality guarantee.
Staff members in Penn State Behrend’s Centers for Teaching and eLearning Initiatives recently developed a 360-degree virtual tour of Metco Industries, a powdered-metals manufacturing company located in Saint Marys. The tour is now used as part of the QMM 593: Field Experiences in Manufacturing course.
Ed Laquidara is the founder and curator of Animal Adventures, New England’s largest privately owned animal rescue center of its kind, and head speaker and animal handler for EdLaquidara.com, an exotic animal rescue and education organization. Laquida and his animal friends will visit the Berks campus on Aug. 29.
The Great DuBois, a fast-paced variety show including incredible feats of juggling, hula hoops, unicycle, aerial and circus stunts, contortion, magic, and audience interaction — all wrapped in a blanket of comedy — will come to Penn State Berks on Sunday, Aug. 25.
Penn State Berks will welcome nearly 350 first-year students to its residential community as part of the campus' annual orientation program on Friday, Aug. 23.
