Penn State offering new online master's degree in marketing analytics
5/21/19
A new master’s degree in marketing from Penn State has been designed to help marketers leverage their company’s data to make the best business decisions.
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Liberal Arts graduate students form diversity and inclusion alliance
4/12/19
Students and faculty members in the College of the Liberal Arts have established the Graduate Alliance for Diversity and Inclusion. The group will hold its final meeting of the semester and an open house at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in 102 Burrowes Building.
University Libraries to conduct graduate and professional student survey
3/11/19
Penn State University Libraries will conduct its first large-scale survey of graduate and professional students on a range of topics, including library resource use, perceptions of service and current and future needs, with responses used to inform planning and future enhancements. A sample of students received an email invitation to participate in the survey on Monday, March 18.
Simucase allows graduate students to practice with virtual patients
9/5/18
Simucase is an online program that allows students to practice with virtual patients presented through avatars or videos. The cases are based on ones suggested by practicing speech-language pathologists and incorporate various types of data including assessment reports and interviews with family members and other professionals.
Marketing colloquium gives Smeal doctoral students access to top researchers
7/3/18
The Penn State Smeal College of Business recently hosted the 8th Annual Marketing Academic Research Colloquium (MARC) in the Nittany Lion Inn and Business Building on the University Park campus.
IST doctoral student receives NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship
5/21/18
Scott Pezanowski, a doctoral candidate in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, has received the NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship given by the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium for 2018-2019. The mission of the program is to expand opportunities for Pennsylvanians to learn about and participate in NASA’s aeronautics and space programs by supporting and enhancing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, research and outreach programs.
Doctoral candidate studies how media shocks culture
5/16/18
Penn State doctoral candidate Azeta Hatef spent a month in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul to examine how its people transitioned both culturally and socially from the dramatic change from a five-year media blackout to the ban lifting in 2001. Specifically, she studied the relationship between media and the changing beauty industry through interviews with consumers of cosmetic surgery.
Fourteen graduate students receive the Alumni Association Dissertation Award
4/27/18
Fourteen graduate students received the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award and Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Medal in recognition of their outstanding professional accomplishments and achievements in scholarly research in any of the disciplinary areas of arts and humanities; social sciences; physical and computational sciences; life and health sciences; and engineering.
Provost Nick Jones shares message to graduate students ahead of election
4/9/18
Voting begins this week for the election to determine if Penn State graduate students want to unionize.
Nova-like explosion of spinning live bacteria explained
4/6/18
Suspensions of live bacteria in a viscous liquid do not act as expected when spun at certain speeds and now a team of researchers knows why the bacterial aggregation appears to explode when the spinning stops.
Cocoa bean roasting can preserve both chocolate health benefits, taste
4/4/18
Manipulating the temperature and the length of time under which cocoa beans are roasted can simultaneously preserve and even boost the potency of some bioactive and antioxidant compounds while protecting desired sensory aspects of chocolate, according to Penn State researchers.
FAQs now available from Town Hall on graduate student unionization
3/30/18
To continue to provide students with accurate information, answers to commonly asked questions submitted during a recent Town Hall on graduate student unionization are now available online. Penn State Provost Nick Jones and Dean of the Graduate School Regina Vasilatos-Younken hosted the event to answer questions on potential unionization and the upcoming election, which will take place over six days in April at various campus locations.
41 graduate students earn awards at 33rd annual Graduate Exhibition
3/27/18
Forty-one graduate students received awards for their research and creative scholarship in the 33rd annual Graduate Exhibition, held March 23 and 25 on Penn State's University Park campus. A complete list of winners is available below.
Graduate Students attend national workshop on science and technology policy
3/20/18
Four Penn State graduate students were selected to represent the University at the 5th annual CASE Workshop: Catalyzing Advocacy for Science and Engineering, March 18-21, in Washington, D.C. The CASE Workshop is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
March 13 Town Hall now available to view online
3/16/18
The Penn State Town Hall that took place on March 13 is now archived and available to watch online. At the event, Penn State Provost Nick Jones and Dean of the Graduate School Regina Vasilatos-Younken answered questions submitted by students on the topic of graduate student unionization.