Star point guard Tim Frazier, who missed the majority of the 2012-2013 season with a ruptured Achilles, will be cleared for live competition in two weeks.
With a little help from you, the Penn State community, the Penn State Lunar Lion team could be showcased by celebrity theoretical physicist Michio Kaku in a CBS feature.
For the third year in a row -- and for the fourth time in the last six years -- Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital is again ranked among the nation's best children's hospitals, per U.S. News and World Report.
"There’s a real possibility that in 2013 we will have a lion on the Moon — a Lunar Lion," says former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who was once nicknamed "Newt Skywalker" for his fascination with space exploration.
Penn State's 2014 recruiting class now stands at eight members with a verbal commitment from Marcus Allen, a 6-1, 187-pound safety from Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Per Rivals, Allen had also received offers from a number of Big Ten programs -- Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, and Wisconsin, in addition to incoming members Maryland and Rutgers.
On Wednesday, an anonymous couple donated $2.2 million to Penn State's Geochemistry program, housed within the Geosciences department of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. The $2.2 million will endow a faculty chair in Geosciences, which will bring "an individual who is among the very best" in the field to Penn State.