D.J. Newbill is heading to Vegas, but not to celebrate his team's unexpected place in the recruiting rankings -- the rising senior guard will take part in the LeBron James Skills Academy starting July 9.
The Lady Lions basketball team announced today that their Pink Zone raised $310,000 to donate to the fight against breast cancer. The money raised will go to six different foundations, including Mount Nittany Medical Center and Penn State's own Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute.
The MOOC takeover of higher education continues! But seriously, MOOCs have an important place in modern academia, and Penn State has capitalized, now offering its very popular "Creativity, Innovation, and Change" MOOC in Chinese.
Penn State is still one of the most expensive public universities in the country, but at least it's not atop the list -- Pitt's main campus was the most expensive public university in 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Education's statistics.
Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences announced its next dean will be Richard Roush, currently the Dean of Melbourne University's School of Land and Environment in Australia. Roush is set to take the reins on Oct. 1.
We all know the guys across the street can recruit, but Penn State basketball and coach Patrick Chambers are assembling an impressive class of their own in the early stages of the 2015 recruiting cycle.