Penn State's Advance Vehicle Team took home an impressive first place overall finish in this year's EcoCAR 2 Competition among 15 universities last week in San Diego. EcoCAR is a competition which involves teams altering a donated Chevy Malibu to make it more environmentally friendly and increase gas mileage, decrease emissions, and maintain consumer acceptability.
Penn State football released a new campaign video yesterday titled The Next Level, which mirrors a presentation Coach Bill O'Brien might give to a high school recruit to entice him into Happy Valley.
Females everywhere in State College rejoice; the newest addition to the Trader Joe's Plaza off of North Atherton will be an ULTA cosmetics store.
Bob Costas will give Louis Freeh and his independent investigation of Penn State and the Jerry Sandusky scandal another look Wednesday night Vice President of Communications Adam Freifeld told StateCollege.com, Tuesday.
Julieanne Siller, a 17-year old high school student scheduled to attend Penn State Altoona in the fall was stabbed and murdered by her boyfriend, 16-year old Tristan Stahley, over the weekend according to a CBS Philly Report. The incident allegedly occurred in Palmer Park Saturday night following an argument at Stahley's house on Rittenhouse Lane in Skippack Township, located in Montgomery County, Pa outside of Philadelphia. Per the CBS Report, authorities say the couple continued fighting in the park. Stahley stabbed Siller in the throat and kept stabbing her before dragging her body into a wooden area.
Penn State will join a group of 61 prestigious universities in 13 countries today with the commencement of it's first Massive Open Online Course -- that's MOOC for short.