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Penn State Brandywine USCAA Men's Soccer National Champions

Brandywine crowned USCAA Men's Soccer National Champion

11/13/18

Penn State Brandywine is officially the No. 1 team in United States Collegiate Athletic Association Division II men's soccer. It took more than 95 minutes to crown a national champion Monday night as Daniel Willie's overtime goal sent Brandywine past Johnson & Wales (North Carolina) 1-0 in the title game as Brandywine captured the school's first-ever national championship

Illustration shoing DNA structure impact on syntheis rate and error rate

DNA structure impacts rate and accuracy of DNA synthesis

11/13/18

DNA sequences with the potential to form unusual conformations, which are frequently associated with cancer and neurological diseases, can in fact slow down or speed up the DNA synthesis process and cause more or fewer sequencing errors.

Gingerbread House

Gingerbread house decorating event on Dec. 8 to benefit THON

11/13/18

Penn State Auxiliary and Business Services will host its first gingerbread house decorating event on Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. A donation of $35 includes one house and all of the decorations for up to four people, and all proceeds will benefit THON.

A Penn State Behrend volleyball player digs the ball during a match.

Behrend volleyball team exits ECAC tournament

11/13/18

The Penn State Behrend women’s volleyball team lost to McDaniel in the quarterfinals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference championships. The team swept Wilkes in the tournament’s first round.

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Veterans Day celebration held at Penn State Lehigh Valley

11/13/18

A Veterans Day celebration was hosted at Penn State Lehigh Valley on Nov. 12. About 40 students, faculty, staff and veterans from the community came to the event, which was hosted by the Penn State Lehigh Valley Veteran Student Organization.

Penn State Behrend soccer player Richard Blanchard prepares to kick the ball

Overtime kick lifts Behrend soccer team into NCAA's D3 'Sweet 16' round

11/13/18

A highlight-reel bicycle kick in the 102nd minute lifted the Penn State Behrend men’s soccer team over host John Carroll in the second round of the NCAA Division III soccer tournament. The goal broke a two-overtime tie and carried the Lions into the Sweet 16 round of the tournament for the first time in program history.

soybean field

'Scaring' soybeans into defensive mode yields better plants a generation later

11/13/18

By temporarily silencing the expression of a critical gene, researchers fooled soybean plants into sensing they were under siege, encountering a wide range of stresses. Then, after selectively cross breeding those plants with the original stock, the progeny "remember" the stress-induced responses to become more vigorous, resilient and productive plants, according to a team of researchers.

A group of students build pipe-cleaner structures during an engineering outreach program at Penn State Behrend.

Model windmills power 'Women in Engineering' project at Penn State Behrend

11/13/18

Nearly 150 high-school students attended Penn State Behrend’s 13th annual “Women in Engineering Day” program. The event’s “MacGuyver”-style workshops encourage girls to think creatively and learn from their mistakes, while introducing them to engineering fields and careers.

Award established to recognize rural hospital innovation and transformation

11/13/18

The Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health (PORH) has established the Baronner Rural Innovation and Transformation (BRIT) Award to recognize rural hospitals and health systems that have implemented a robust and sustainable initiative to significantly impact the health status of the communities they serve.

Tom Roberts sitting at piano

Renowned pianist and composer brings new life to Chaplin films

11/13/18

Pianist Tom Roberts has performed on the “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” arranged music for a number of jazz artists such as Wynton Marsalis, and arranged and performed music for Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” among others. One of his more recent passions includes composing original scores for silent films starring Charlie Chaplin, two of which he will bring to Penn State New Kensington at 7 p.m. on Nov. 28 in the Forum Theatre.

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