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Two senior lecturers from the the College of Communications, Maura Shea and her husband Rod Bingaman, have produced a film called Chasing Butterflies ,coming to DVD December 22. This film  follows a run-away bride, Nina (Amy Brienes). Her mother (Maria Cellario) shockingly winds up marring the groom (Gabriel Vaughan) in her place, then the two newly-weds hit [...]

As the dreaded week of finals is quickly approaching… everyone must be feeling anxious, nervous and overwhelmed! Study, Study, Study, but don’t tell anyone your goals for finals week! According to NYU psychologists and a MentalFloss.com blog, talking about your goals make them less likely to happen. Apparently, announcing your goals gives you a “premature sense of [...]

Did you know that there are over 4,000 international students currently enrolled at Penn State? Amazingly, there are also about 200,400 international students currently enrolled in universities across America today. These students play a major roll in today’s economy. Annually, NAFSA: Association of International Educators calculates the economic impact of international students and their dependents on [...]

Professor Profile is a new feature here at Onward State where we find interesting professors at Penn State, talk with them, and share their stories. Do you know an interesting professor that would make for a great Professor Profile? Send us an email at tips@onwardstate.com and let us know! Are you interested in current social [...]

If you didn’t already know, there’s a section of  bigtennetwork.com filled with the most adorable pictures of little fans, called “Big Ten Kids.” Most of these pictures are infants and toddlers all decked out in cutest outfits to support their favorite teams ( or their parents’ favorite teams)! If you have any photos of your [...]

Good news…. the Lion Ambassadors are now holding a recruitment session in efforts to attract new members and are accepting applications from now until December 11th! If you did not already know, the Lion Ambassadors serve as our Student Alumni Corps, founded in the early 1980′s.  Their main goals are to communicate Penn State’s history [...]

Is your laptop slow, broken, or just plain terrible? Well good news to all…Penn State’s ITS is conducting a contest for students to win a free Eee PC 1005HA Netbook worth $299.00! The contest began on October 19, 2009 and ends December 4, 2009. You can enter the contest via the Internet by going to [...]

An upcoming exhibit on peace will be held in Penn State’s Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, which will spotlight the lives of  Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Daisaku Ikeda through their words, photographs, and history. The exhibition’s main goal is to deliver a prominent message about individual leadership and the difference that one person can [...]

The recently passed 2009-2010 budget will greatly affect the Schlow Centre Region Library, levying a more than 20% reduction in the library’s annual appropriation. The reduction has caused the library to reevaluate many of its programs (Updated 5:14 pm: the following are contingent on Schlow not getting additional funding): Power Library (online databases and study [...]

I’d personally like to welcome Penn State to the 21st century. In case you were unaware, Penn State has finally decided to install Wireless Internet in some of the dorms. I think this is worthy of a round of applause! However, as Penn State takes one step forward in to the 21st century, it also [...]

Partying, Violence and Drugs! That is what comes to mind when most think of PSU. With the District Attorney race on the rise will our partying come to an end? That question will be left up to Republican candidate Michael Madeira, or Democrat candidate Stacy Parks Miller. Coincidentally, PSU being proudly ranked the #1 party [...]