Next Wednesday, January 16, the Penn State chapter of Oxfam will co-host an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet® with two other student organizations, Food for Thought and Global Brigades. The event is an interactive hunger simulation that inspires people to action to fight hunger and poverty worldwide.
What was billed as a winnable game for Penn State turned into a blowout as the Northwestern Wildcats (10-6, 1-2 Big Ten) blew past the hapless Nittany Lions for the 70-54 win. The game was not even as “close” as the final score indicated.
Unfortunately for Penn State, no one knows what has happened to the man who stabbed a graduate student near Vairo Boulevard back on December 12. The man, who was described as 5'8" and Caucasian, stabbed the woman in the throat on a bike trail.
Classes have begun in the new Biobehavioral Health Building which has closed a large part of the HUB lawn for most of the last two years. Although the project is not completely finished yet, classes are being held in the completed part. Here's a look inside.
The Lunar Lion team -- composed of Penn State students, faculty, and engineers from the Applied Research Laboratory -- will be participating in Google Lunar X PRIZE, a competition to land a privately-funded robot on the moon. I was able to sit down with Lunar Lion Team Lead Michael Paul to discuss everything from the project itself to his views on the evolution of the aerospace industry to Penn State's role in the future of space exploration.
When former Penn State student Brandon Kelley finished writing the script for his film "Coach" in March of 2011, he hadn't even heard of Jerry Sandusky. As the news unfolded, however, many opposed the idea of Kelley making his movie due to the coincidental similarities in the two stories regarding child abuse and molestation.