A new cross-platform media and outreach project produced by WPSU Penn State aims to help raise awareness of evidence-based practices, programs and policies to prevent and treat opioid abuse, and to identify barriers that prevent the adoption and spread of effective practices and policies. A 30-minute television show will air at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 19 on WPSU-TV to explore some of these issues.
The Centre Region is invited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sesame Street, hosted by WPSU Penn State, with a day full of kids and family activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21.
The strategies being employed by Penn State to help combat the opioid epidemic were discussed today (Sept. 12) during an update to the Board of Trustees Committee on Outreach, Development and Community Relations at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.
Lee Ann Banaszak, professor of political science and women’s, gender and sexuality studies, joins the Democracy Works podcast this week to discuss her work on the Pennsylvania Redistricting Reform Commission and what she learned at public hearings on redistricting throughout the state.
Former Penn State football and NFL player Aaron Maybin talks about art and activism on this week's Democracy Works podcast.
WPSU Penn State — central Pennsylvania’s public media station — has been nominated for five 2019 Mid-Atlantic Emmy awards for excellence in the television and media industries.
WPSU, along with other Pennsylvania public radio stations, will host a live call-in show with Gov. Tom Wolf at 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 20, on WPSU-FM. The public can submit questions in advance of the show or call in during the show to ask a question.
Penn State Shenango student entrepreneurs Ali Izzo and Holly Masters won $15,000 during “The Investment,” the finale of PennTAP’s Inc.U Competition, which aired May 16 on WPSU-TV.
Penn State President Eric J. Barron will discuss the nearly completed renovations at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center and highlight what’s happening there this summer during the next episode of WPSU Penn State’s “Digging Deeper” at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, on WPSU-TV.
Erica Frankenberg, associate professor of education and demography, and Crystal Sanders, associate professor of history and African American studies, discuss the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the current state of school segregation on this week’s Democracy Works podcast, produced by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy and WPSU.
WPSU will air interviews on May 9 and 14 with Marc Friedenberg and Fred Keller — the candidates running in a special election to fill the vacated seat for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District. The special election will be held on May 21.
Keiko Miwa Ross, of State College, Pennsylvania, has made a gift of $2 million to support WPSU television and Penn State University Libraries.
Sarah Koenig, executive produce of the investigative journalism podcast Serial, visited Penn State earlier this spring for a conversation about criminal justice with McCourtney Institute for Democracy Director Michael Berkman. A recording of the discussion is now available on the Democracy Works podcast, produced by the McCourtney Institute and WPSU.
WPSU’s “Conversations LIVE” airs Thursday, April 18, as a pair of Penn State Extension horticultural educators share their advice and take viewers questions for the best ways to prepare summer gardens.
A new genetics and genealogy curriculum co-developed by Nina Jablonski, Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology and director of the Center for Human Evolution and Diversity in the College of the Liberal Arts, will be featured on PBS' "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." on April 9. The State Theatre in State College will host a local celebration on April 7.
