Visitors to the Farm Safety Demonstration Area at Penn State's Ag Progress Days, Aug. 13-15, can learn aboutthe hazards of flowing grain in confined-space grain storages and how to avoid and respond to entrapment risks.
For the fourth year in a row, The Dining Room at The Nittany Lion Inn has received Wine Spectator magazine’s “Best of” Award of Excellence — the highest wine list award achieved in the history of the inn.
Spotted lanternflies, invasive plant diseases, robots in agriculture and education, and foreign animal diseases will be among the topics highlighted in displays and presentations at the College of Agricultural Sciences Exhibits Building and Theatre during Penn State's Ag Progress Days, Aug. 13-15.
The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State held its first puppet creation workshop in the HUB-Robeson Center on June 27, where students were given the opportunity to help design giant, illuminated puppets made out of reused materials like bamboo, pool noodles and linen. These puppets will be showcased in the IllumiNATION parade, set for March 28, 2020.
The financial experts at the Sokolov-Miller Family Financial and Life Skills Center are offering a workshop focused on insurance planning from noon to 1 p.m. July 30.
About 50 Penn State engineers visited the Lehigh Valley campus on July 11 to learn about a new engagement group in the Lehigh Valley.
The Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association and the Penn State Lehigh Valley Alumni Society are inviting all incoming and current Penn State students who are returning for the fall, as well as their families, to the Annual Penn State Alumni Picnic and Student Send Off on July 28 .
Neil Armstrong took “one small step” onto the moon 50 years ago. To celebrate the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, Penn State will host a speaker and film event at The State Theatre in downtown State College on Saturday, July 20.
The summer months are obviously meant to be a time of leisurely pursuits for kids. Still, that doesn’t mean they should completely shut off their brains. Enter Penn State Scranton’s annual Nittany Cub Summer Camps, which perfectly strike the balance between fun and education.
Nearly 50 seventh- and eighth-grade female students attended Wabtec Girls With STEAM at Penn State Behrend in late June. The program is a weeklong science, technology, engineering and math camp where attendees are paired with female mentors from Wabtec Corp. Other women — Wabtec engineers and faculty members from Penn State Behrend — lead classroom and lab sessions.
In September 1855, local dignitaries gathered at Centre Furnace Mansion in Centre County and signed a document establishing a site for an idea that, at the time, was considered a bit of an experiment — The Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania. The fledgling institution's aim was to encourage the application of science to farming.
Visitors at Penn State's annual Ag Progress Days expo — to be held this year Aug. 13-15 — will have an opportunity to get a closer view of the agricultural and conservation-related research conducted at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center by taking free bus tours covering portions of the more than 2,000-acre facility.
Penn State Scranton Alumni Society held its annual golf tournament.
Penn State's "AstroFest" program, a four-night festival of astronomy activities and stargazing, will welcome visitors for its 21st year from July 10 to 13. The program will run from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. each night during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. Events are free and will occur rain or shine both in classrooms and in the planetarium located on the fifth floor of Davey Laboratory.
For the 11th consecutive year, researchers from Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology are assisting to enrich the community experience for Arts Festival attendees through technology. This year, the researchers hope to facilitate a connection between the festival and community that evokes emotion in festivalgoers through a mobile scavenger hunt game.
