The two leading scorers from last year’s Nittany Lions basketball team will be taking their skills to the professional level. After being bypassed in the NBA Draft, Talor Battle and Jeff Brooks have signed professional contracts to continue their playing careers in Europe. Battle signed a one year contract with Cholet Basket of the French Pro A League, while Brooks will play for Aurora Basket Jesi in the Italian Lega2.
University Park: a campus so large, it has its own zip code! Coming into a campus so large and so full of life can be intimidating for a freshman, but that doesn't mean you have to limit yourself to the confines of East Halls. In this edition of Freshman 101, we explore various aspects of on-campus life.
Over the past three days, an internet rally centered around Twitter and Facebook has been waged in order to help THON child Lexi Bartlett meet her idol, Taylor Swift. According to the event page,“Lexi is 6 years old and has stage 4 Neuroblastoma cancer. She has been fighting this horrible disease since she was 3 years old," and "she wants nothing more than to meet Taylor Swift." Well, after Saturday night, perhaps that aspiration should be expressed in the past tense.
Few things excite me as much as times when the university -- an institution whose endurance is a point of pride -- bumps into the ever-advanacing force of technology. Sometimes, it comes in large, navy-looking vessels like the Millennium Science Building... but other times, Penn State runs into the best that the digital age has to offer in a less academic setting. Find out who the robot to the right is -- and why he could help Penn State -- after the jump.
In March 2011, the Board of Trustees voted to halt all progress on many new construction projects that were then in progress, short of breaking ground. This means that major projects still in the design and bidding phases were put on hold until further notice. However, based on the extent to which many of them had been designed and the fact that many of the contracts had already been granted, we can only assume that they will come to fruition one day. To help counter the Penn State building rumor mill ("They’re putting a building on the HUB Lawn, OMG, WTF?!"), this is the first in a series of posts looking at projects currently on hold, as well as those already in progress.
Penn State was announced late last week as one of 29 first-class American institutions of higher education involved in a project that is expected to provide a boom for broadband access in their respective communities. The Gig.U project is still in its infancy but, according to Penn State Vice Provost for Information Technology Kevin Morooney, it appears to be a game-changer for the university community.