Penn State Shenango recently hired Rakiesha Morrison, a former Farrell High School cheerleader and Gannon University competitive cheerleader and dancer, as its new head cheerleading coach. She currently coaches competitive cheer for Fire and Ice Hermitage and is employed at the Mercer County Courthouse in Mercer, Pennsylvania.
Laura Guay, a rising junior majoring in biobehavioral health and French and Francophone studies, with a minor in global health, has been named a 2020 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Fellow.
Tim Carr, an alumnus and longtime supporter of Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering, has committed $150,000 from his estate for an endowment to advance facility and equipment development and maintenance.
When Randi Semera applied to an internship with MedSims, a WebMD company focused on health education and training, she never anticipated the impact working in the medical field would have on her. She applied for the data analyst intern position after developing a strong interest in the field through her IST special topics course, which provided information on the major concepts in data analytics and allowed Semera to work on data sets.
The molecular mechanism used by many bacteria to kill neighboring cells has redundancy built into its genetic makeup.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State will open its major special exhibition of the fall season, "Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman," on Aug. 24. Featuring nearly 80 objects, including sculptures, paintings, works on paper, and archival materials, this exhibition is the first to reassess Harlem Renaissance artist Augusta Savage’s contributions to art and cultural history in light of her role as an artist-activist.
The Emmet Cohen Trio — pianist Cohen and his trio mates, bassist Russell Hall and drummer Kyle Poole — will be accompanied by hard bop jazz saxophonist Houston Person in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12 in Schwab Auditorium.
Hongtao Sun, an expert in nanoscience and nanotechnology, will join the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering as an assistant professor on Aug. 15. He is also a co-hire of the Materials Research Institute.
Operational models for severe weather forecasting predicted Hurricane Harvey would become a Category 1 hurricane in 2017, according to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Instead, it became a massive Category 4 just before it made landfall, tying Hurricane Katrina for the costliest hurricane on record.
This summer, 15 Penn State Berks students traveled with their faculty adviser to Orange, Texas, to work with children affected by Hurricane Harvey as part of Camp Noah, a week-long day camp that responds to children touched by community disasters.
For each stage of life, you should take different steps to protect your bones. A Penn State Sports Medicine doctor helps you bone up on bone health.
Undergraduate students from colleges across and beyond Pennsylvania presented posters related to their summer internships at Penn State College of Medicine on Aug. 1 at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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.
