At this spring’s World Campus commencement ceremony, Taylor Stevens was recognized for her achievements by being selected as the student speaker. Stevens, 26, earned her degree in integrated social sciences, which is offered by World Campus in collaboration with the College of the Liberal Arts.
Catherine Wanner, professor of history, anthropology, and religious studies in the Penn State College of the Liberal Arts, is stepping down after six years as the Rick and Sue Barry Director of the Paterno Fellows Program, effective July 1.
When a proposed policy has the backing of scientific evidence, it may boost the likelihood that activists will get involved with the issue. However, references to scientific evidence seem to dampen the activism of scientific experts, according to researchers.
Penn State researchers recently attended the Consortium of Social Science Association’s 2019 Social Science Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C., taking part in a full schedule of events to bring awareness to social and behavioral sciences.
Researchers found that when study participants faced complex choices, they often showed a burst of exploration before settling into preferred options of higher value. This strategy may be one way that people can conserve their cognitive resources and solve problems that exceed their working memory capacity.
When archaeologists at a dig in northern Israel found hundreds of pounds of iron slag, they thought the site might have been used for industrial-level production of iron tools or weapons. But were the small hearths they unearthed adequate to do such work? Last summer, they did an experiment to find out.
Penn State has a long tradition of Fulbright success. Nine Penn State faculty members have been awarded for the 2019-20 cycle.
While most people tend to thinking of lynchings as something that mostly happened in the South, mob violence was widespread in the United States from 1883 to 1941, and its victims included nearly all races and ethnicities, according to researchers. An interactive map shows the extent of this particularly brutal form of violence.
The Share Your Opioid Story initiative is hosting a Community Conversation at the Schlow Centre Region Library in State College at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 30.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, an award-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times Magazine whose work focuses on civil rights and racial injustices, served as the keynote speaker at "Brown@65: National Symposium for the 65th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education," held May 10 at the Nittany Lion Inn.
Laura Rosenberger, director of the bipartisan Alliance for Securing Democracy, joins the Democracy Works podcast this week to discuss what the Mueller report revealed about Russian interference in the 2016 election — and what can be done to address it.
With every social movement, there is a moment — an event or instance that sparks a time for change. With the recent rise of teachers striking across the United States, one Penn State researcher argues that, for the first time in decades, public education is seeing its own moment that's prompted a new movement.
Penn State is launching a new bachelor of arts degree in history, being offered online through World Campus and the College of the Liberal Arts.
The 2018–19 Institutes of Energy and the Environment seed grant recipients have been awarded to 18 groups of interdisciplinary researchers at Penn State.
The Center for Global Studies recently awarded more than $131,000 to faculty and students whose work advances research, studies and projects in global studies.
