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Graduate student excellence celebrated at awards luncheon

4/27/18

Penn State President Eric Barron presented 11 awards to more than 30 graduate students in recognition of outstanding achievement during the annual Graduate Student Awards Luncheon, held April 25 at the Nittany Lion Inn.

Four graduate students receive the Professional Master’s Excellence Award

4/27/18

Four Penn State graduate students received the 2018 Professional Master’s Excellence Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in a professional master’s degree program in any discipline, based upon the student’s academic record in the graduate program and the quality and impact of the student’s culminating experience, including creative works, performance and projects conducted in a professional setting.

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Penn State Law launches Legal-Tech Virtual Lab with ROSS Intelligence pop-up

4/26/18

Penn State Law launched its new Legal-Tech Virtual Lab on April 17 with a pop-up event in University Park with legal-tech company ROSS Intelligence. The event, co-sponsored by the College of Engineering and Penn State Information Technology, trained Penn State students on EVA, ROSS Intelligence’s new free, publicly accessible artificial-intelligence-powered legal research tool.

Three women put out fire in barrel using firehose

Fighting fire with societal norms

4/17/18

Only 7 percent of the U.S. firefighter workforce is female, and they make $10,000 less than men, on average, even though they are the same average age. Penn State researcher Lorraine Dowler has spent the past decade interviewing women firefighters about their challenges and thinking about ways to improve opportunities for women.

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Penn State Law Vis Moot Court Team finds success again in Vienna

4/13/18

For the second time in three years, the Penn State Law Vis Moot Court Team advanced out of the General Rounds and into the Round of 64 — the start of the elimination rounds — of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition, held last month in Vienna.

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Report on third-party funding in international arbitration to release April 17

4/12/18

A global task force of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London will release its report on third-party funding in international arbitration at the ICCA Congress on April 17 in Sydney, Australia. The task force is co-chaired by Catherine A. Rogers, professor of law and Paul and Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar at Penn State Law.

Earth Days 2018

Films, forums and festivals: A guide to Penn State's 2018 Earth Day(s)

4/9/18

Earth Day will be internationally recognized on April 22, but at Penn State, Earth Day(s) will be celebrated throughout the month of April. Students, faculty, staff and members of the community are invited to attend the events. Show your Earth Day spirit on social media by using #PSUEarthDays and visit the Earth Day(s) 2018 website to learn how to get involved.

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