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Matt Jordan, associate professor of media studies in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications

Podcast: Finding the truth in an era of 'fake news'

8/16/18

Matt Jordan, an assistant professor of media studies in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, joins the Democracy Works podcast to discuss "fake news" and the role of social media in a democracy.

Bill and Monica DeGrandis

DeGrandis create named professorship with $500,000 estate gift to Liberal Arts

8/16/18

Bill and Monica DeGrandis recently made a $500,000 estate commitment to support outstanding Penn State liberal arts faculty. The gift is being matched dollar-for-dollar by the college’s Tracy and Ted McCourtney Endowed Professorship Matching Gift Program, which allows the college to activate the endowment immediately to establish the William and Monica DeGrandis-McCourtney Early Career Professorship in the College of the Liberal Arts. Upon receipt of the DeGrandis’ estate gift, the early career professorship will be converted to the William and Monica DeGrandis McCourtney Professorship, a fully endowed named professorship.

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Using social media to solve social problems

8/16/18

A National Science Foundation-funded Penn State project will evaluate the accuracy of using Twitter data to represent populations across different demographic groups.

Dr. Farndale pictured with co-author Chris Brewster, on behalf of Paul Ligthart and Erik Poutsma.

Penn State sends six to Academy of Management National Conference

8/15/18

The School of Labor and Employment Relations recently sent six faculty members to the national conference of the Academy of Management in Chicago from Aug. 10 to 14. Elaine Farndale, associate professor of human resource management and director of the Center for International Human Resource Studies, was awarded the Scholarly International Human Resource Management Paper award in the human resources division for 2018.

Three new faculty members at Penn State Law.

New Penn State Law faculty members build bridges across Penn State

8/15/18

Penn State Law is delighted to welcome to the faculty Assistant Professor of Law and Medicine Megan Wright, Assistant Professor of Law Ben Johnson, and Professor of Legal Research Jenny Ham, all of whom will advance the law school’s efforts to collaborate across the University to impact the world.

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Self-control develops gradually in adolescent brain

8/14/18

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Different parts of the brain mature at different times, which may help to explain impulsive behaviors in adolescence, suggest researchers from Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh.

Bryce Starner with kids in the Dominican Republic

Comparative literature senior spends summer with Kansas City Royals

8/14/18

Senior Bryce Starner spent his summer in the Dominican Republic as an intern for the Kansas City Royals. The triple major — comparative literature, Spanish and corporate innovation and entrepreneurship — utilized his language skills to communicate with the players and locals in Santo Domingo.

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Scarlet macaw DNA points to ancient breeding operation in Southwest

8/13/18

Somewhere in the American Southwest or northern Mexico, there are probably the ruins of a scarlet macaw breeding operation dating to between 900 and 1200 C.E., according to a team of archaeologists who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of bird remains found in the Chaco Canyon and Mimbres areas of New Mexico.

Penn State World Campus summer 2018 graduation speakers

From GEDs to Penn State degrees

8/9/18

They dropped out of high school as teenagers, but two soon-to-be Penn State graduates turned their lives around and will get their degrees this weekend.

Lilliard Richardson

College of the Liberal Arts launches Master of Public Policy program

8/8/18

The Penn State College of the Liberal Arts has launched a new two-year, on-campus Master of Public Policy program that will equip students with the economic, analytic, ethics and management skills needed to address the world's most complex public and social issues.

Brad Vivian

Democracy Works podcast examines how public remembers Charlottesville events

8/8/18

Bradford Vivian, professor of communication arts and sciences and director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation in Penn State's McCourtney Institute for Democracy, opens the second season of the Democracy Works podcast with a discussion about public memory, Confederate monuments, and last summer’s Unite the Right rally and counterprotests.

Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway Letters Project receives three-year NEH grant

8/8/18

The Hemingway Letters Project has received a three-year, $275,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support its work in publishing volumes five through seven of "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway."

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April Ripka named student marshal for the College of the Liberal Arts

8/7/18

April Ripka will serve as the student marshal for the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State’s summer 2018 commencement. Ripka will graduate from Penn State with a degree in organizational leadership and minors in dispute management and resolution, labor studies and employment relations, psychology, and sociology.

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Well-being of 'left behind' children in Kyrgyzstan focus of study

8/6/18

Understanding the economic, health, behavioral and educational effects of labor migration on children is one aspect of a three-year, interdisciplinary research project that is being carried out by researchers in Penn State's Colleges of Agricultural Sciences, Liberal Arts, Earth and Mineral Sciences, Health and Human Development, and Education.

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