Penn State York, Fox 43, and the American Red Cross have joined together to ask area residents to bleed for a good cause. The American Red Cross is in need of blood and a community drive is set for Aug. 25 at Penn State York. The blood drive is from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Conference Center of the Main Classroom Building and is open to the public.
Richard J. Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will present "Order and Disorder in the Emotional Brain" on April 8. The talk will focus on how people respond to emotions and how those responses affect resilience.
In need of some last-minute holiday gift ideas for the young ones in your life? How about something that’s fun and educational at the same time? We asked Penn State Behrend faculty members to give us a few suggestions.
Penn State Beaver will host The Asia Project, a spoken word poetry event, at noon Oct. 17 in the Student Union Building auditorium. Poet Asia Samson will offer a blend of humor, inspiration and reflections on daily life in his poetry while accompanied by music provided by his brother-in-law Jollan Aurelio. Samson has appeared on HBO's "Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry" and Black Family Channel's "Spoken" and has performed with Dead Prez, Mos Def and DMX.
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According to Robert Zubrin, president of the engineering firm Pioneer Astronautics and founder and president of the Mars Society, NASA's current vision of sending humans to the red planet depends on a 1,000-ton, 100-meter-long spacecraft. Too heavy to launch through Earth's atmosphere, the ship would have to be built on orbit, said Zubrin, at an estimated cost of $400 billion. He characterized it as a giant interplanetary spaceship engineered by a giant space agency.
