This week's top stories from across Penn State:
GONE 'VIRAL': It’s a classic startup story: Two college buddies develop a business with an idea, a few hundred dollars, and a hard-core work ethic. Today, a Penn State Abington alumnus who co-founded the firm Viral Ideas, is a thriving success story.
ELECTION DATES: The dates, times and locations for the Penn State graduate student union election have been released by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board.
COMBATING HAZING: Penn State President Eric Barron, along with other senior leaders, attended a press conference on Friday, March 23, for the introduction of a new state-wide antihazing bill, which will be known as the Timothy J. Piazza Antihazing Law.
MAGMA DETECTION: Using satellite imaging, Penn State researchers for the first time identified a major magma supply into a reservoir extending almost two miles from the crater of a volcano in Nicaragua.
POLLINATOR GIFT: A generous $1 million commitment from local leaders will help The Arboretum at Penn State to move forward with its plans for a world-class pollinators’ garden.
RURAL POVERTY: Members of Penn State Brandywine’s Nittany Christian Fellowship spent their spring break positively impacting low-income families by volunteering in an impoverished region of southwest Virginia.
BIOFUELS: A comprehensive look at how plants build cellulose, the primary building block of the walls of most plant cells, which is used in a wide variety of manmade materials, could have important implications for its use in biofuels.
QUIZ [RE]DESIGN: A new, unique design practicum tests first-year engineering students’ engineering design process comprehension and application capabilities