Penn State Campus Recreation will host an Open House from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Aug. 21 and all faculty and staff members are welcome to attend. Visitors will have the chance to try out the facility and all of its amenities.
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.
College of Liberal Arts alumnus Joshua Branch has received a Youth Justice Leadership Institute Fellowship from the National Juvenile Justice Network.
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.
Nearly 75 years after the end of World War II, correspondence from approximately 100 Penn State students and faculty members who served overseas has found a permanent home at the Robert E. Eiche Library at Penn State Altoona. The collection of 500 letters has been preserved by the library to offer students and researchers firsthand accounts of the everyday lived experiences of local soldiers during the war.
A new study by researchers at Penn State and Brigham Young University 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.
Beth Gugino, professor of vegetable pathology in the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, received this year’s Excellence in Extension Award presented by the American Phytopathological Society.
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.
As part of its sustainability initiatives, Penn State Berks will have an on-site document shredder on campus for faculty and staff from 9 a.m. to 9:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20, in the Franco Building parking lot.
