Alternative Breaks trips bring faculty and students together through service
9/11/18
Penn State Alternative Breaks has grown exponentially and needs the help of faculty and staff willing to join these students as a Learning Partner for these trips.
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Center for Healthy Children recommends evidence-based programs
9/11/18
Federal legislation will radically change how foster care dollars can be used, and Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network and Center for Healthy Children is leading the charge to ensure services intended to prevent foster care placement, and better serve foster youth, are backed by sound research.
Harrisburg's Joel Geary serves on national Praxis advisory committee
9/11/18
Joel Geary, teacher education project manager and certification officer in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, participated on the Educational Testing Service's (ETS) national advisory committee seeking to improve the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators assessment in July.
Engineering to benefit humanity: Student looks to developing nations
9/11/18
Birgitt Boschitsch has earned many titles – mechanical engineer, Penn State doctoral student, bourgeoning entrepreneur. But no matter how she’s using her talents, she always remembers why she pursued engineering.
Spotted lanternfly expert provides tips for home management of pest
9/10/18
To aid homeowners in reducing spotted lanternfly populations, Heather Leach, Penn State's spotted lanternfly extension associate, offers management recommendations based on life cycle and season.
Penn State students help create affordable, sustainable housing in State College
9/10/18
Owning a home is often considered part of living the American Dream. But as housing costs have risen, that part of the dream has become more and more unattainable. Instead of just talking about the problem, Penn State architecture and engineering students and faculty decided to become part of the solution and have received a USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) Central PA Chapter Leadership award for their efforts.
$490K grant funds unique Greenland glacier study
9/10/18
A more comprehensive way to understand the fracturing of Greenland's Helheim Glacier may now be possible thanks to a $489,000 grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to a team of Penn State researchers to launch a feasibility study.
NSF funds $3 million graduate training program focused on Food-Energy-Water
9/10/18
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers to create a new graduate program that will train students to find solutions to real-world problems facing Food-Energy-Water (FEW) systems.
Soil could filter antibiotics from treated wastewater, protecting groundwater
9/10/18
Soil may be a natural filter that can act as a tertiary treatment for wastewater, preventing antibiotics from contaminating groundwater, according to researchers who conducted a study at Penn State's Living Filter.
Penn State campus to host free sustainability event in New Kensington
9/10/18
Penn State New Kensington, with the help of the West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund, will host the reNew Kensington Community Workshop on Sept. 27. The workshop will serve as a starting point for a community-driven planning process related to how sustainability can be implemented in New Kensington.
School for Excellence in the Ag Sciences inspires, motivates teens
9/7/18
Thirty-four students from across the state participated in the 2018 Pennsylvania School for Excellence in the Agricultural Sciences at Penn State this summer, where they had the opportunity to explore the agricultural and natural-resource sciences.
Certified Recovery Specialist program available to recovering addicts
9/7/18
Do you have a history of addiction recovery and want to help others? Penn State Shenango will host “Certified Recovery Specialist Training,” a Penn State Beaver Continuing Education course, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays, beginning Oct. 6 and ending Dec. 15, in 108 Sharon Hall in downtown Sharon.
Goddard Forum's inaugural Pa. One Health Symposium focuses on zoonotic diseases
9/7/18
A unique gathering of physicians, veterinarians, ecologists and conservationists took place in Hershey recently with the goal of improving human, animal, plant and ecosystem health in Pennsylvania.
Penn State Extension to host farm safety week webinar
9/7/18
The Penn State Extension Farm Safety Team will host a farm safety webinar during the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety’s 2018 National Farm Safety and Health Week. Set for noon on Sept. 17, the webinar will feature Michael Pate, Nationwide Insurance Associate Professor of Agricultural Safety and Health in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
Altoona alumnus works with Ohio Innocence Project to free wrongfully accused
9/6/18
Penn State Altoona alumnus Jesse Knowlden spent a year working with the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. During that time, he was part of a team that helped free a man who had spent 15 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.