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Restored statue platform with standing moai on the south coast of Rapa Nui. Note that one of the moai is adorned with a red scoria pukao.

Hats on for Easter Island statues

6/4/18

How do you put a 13-ton hat on a giant statue? That's what a team of researchers is trying to figure out with their study of Easter Island statues and the red hats that sit atop some of them.

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Researchers to study conditions at senior centers across the Commonwealth

6/1/18

Janet Melnick, associate teaching professor in Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State Scranton, and Heather Shanks-McElroy of Keystone College are collaborating on a research project focusing on conditions at senior community centers throughout Pennsylvania to determine how they are meeting the needs of older Pennsylvanians.

image of woman standing in front of glass-topped exhibit cases in library exhibition room of rare and special collections

Jackson named among 17 Library Senior Fellows at UCLA 2018 residential program

5/31/18

Athena Jackson, Penn State University Libraries’ Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair and head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library, has been named to an international cohort of 17 top managers of academic libraries as Library Senior Fellows at UCLA in 2018. The three-week residential program combines management perspectives, strategic thinking, and practical and theoretical approaches to the issues confronting academic institutions and their libraries.

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Research, teaching quality at Penn State results in top 50 worldwide ranking

5/31/18

Penn State has been ranked among the best universities in the world for the quality of education of its students and the research prowess of its faculty. Penn State ranked No. 43 worldwide in the recently released 2018/19 Center for World University Rankings, and ranked No. 30 among universities in the United States.

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