Lion Surplus will hold its annual spring equipment and vehicle auction beginning at 9 a.m. on Thursday, April 25. Motorized equipment, as well as tools, trailers, scrap metal, sheds, hardscape and construction materials, and more will be available for purchase.
Machine-learning programs are increasingly being used in a range of important tasks, from selecting university candidates to powering voting machines. That makes them valuable — and vulnerable, according to Patrick McDaniel, William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology at Penn State and an Institute for CyberScience associate.
The Mont Alto LaunchBox is offering free workshops for aspiring entrepreneurs on and off campus this spring. They are open to the public and free of charge. Participants are encouraged to register at montalto.psu.edu/launchbox/workshops.
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.
On Wednesday, March 27, Penn State and State College-area leaders will facilitate “Welcoming the Other,” an event aimed at building bridges within the community, opening up dialogue around negative rhetoric and violence against immigrants and refugees, and examining the meaning of our national motto, "E pluribus unum" — From many, one.
Penn State Centre Stage presents "To Kill a Mockingbird," Christopher Sergel's stage adaptation based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, April 2–12, at the Playhouse Theatre. The play chronicles the social and racial inequalities of the rural South in 1935 as told through the eyes of a young girl.
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.
No matter the size or shape of your body, you can do anything you want to — that was the message members of Pretty Big Movement dance company shared with the Penn State Altoona community on March 21.
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.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will study the role team interactions have on engineering student teams’ performance during the design process.
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.
Before he arrived at Penn State, Sean Parsons knew that he wanted to challenge himself academically. He had earned college credits while still in high school and was accepted into the University’s Schreyer Honors College. After beginning his undergraduate courses in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, he learned that he could simultaneously work toward his master’s degree.
Faculty members from the Stuckeman School and the Penn State College of Medicine have come together to organize the Wearing the Future Workshop from 9:30 a.m.to 4 p.m. on Monday, March 25, at the Hilton Garden Inn Hershey, located at 550 E. Main St. in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.
Penn State Altoona offers scores and results from varsity athletics for March 12-22.
