The Lunar Lion team completed its first series of rocket thruster tests recently, putting the university-run Google Lunar X Prize team on track to completing the first privately funded mission to the moon.
11 Penn State students and five faculty members were awarded Fulbrights for 2013-2014. This is a pretty big deal, considering that 45 former Fulbrighters have won the Nobel Prize, 28 have been awarded MacArthur Fellowships, 80 have won Pulitzers, and 29 have served as heads of state or government.
Starting tomorrow, car sharing service Zipcar will be available in State College. This means that you, the students, won't have worry about ripping your wallet open for a parking pass or stashing your car in the middle of nowhere, just for the few occasions that you'll need to drive while at Penn State.
Number 1 on Sportscenter's Top Plays was none other than Allen Robinson's end-of-regulation catch, which set up the tying score by Hackenberg to force overtime.
Grit — not IQ, or test scores or raw talent — is the strongest predictor of success, according to "genius grant" recipient Angela Duckworth. It was along this logic that Tom Sharbaugh, a '73 graduate, designed the Schreyer Honors College Gateway Scholars Program Scholarship, which rewards first-generation college students that have persevered through life's challenges on their way to academic success.
Be proud, Penn Staters. Your library is the 8th-best in North America, according to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Library Investment Index. Other libraries ranked near Penn State's? Those of mildly significant academic institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.