Your head is pounding and you just threw up in front of Pattee Library, but you have to keep going. You're on your way to that Accounting midterm that's worth 45% of your grade. "Why did I drink 151 on a Monday?" you ask yourself as you prepare for the worst. But don't panic just yet!
A team from Brown and Boston University recently found that binge drinking the night before an exam doesn't necessarily affect test performance negatively.
While previous research has indicated otherwise, researchers from Brown and Boston University concluded that beng intoxicated on a given night did not influence test-takers' scores the following day. This is because the alcohol did not affect the students' long-term memory or ability to retain recent information needed for an exam. What it did affect, however, was reaction times and moods. So while you'll still feel absolutely miserable trying to figure out the square root of pi, you'll probably be able to slog through it.
Last year, Relay for Life of Penn State raised over $4,000 for the American Cancer Society by selling American Apparel clothing to Penn State students at wholesale prices--a feat so impressive that they've decided to do it again this year.
The sale runs through next Thursday, April 1. Payment by cash, check, or PayPal is accepted, and 100% of the profits benefit Relay for Life of Penn State, which in turn benefits the American Cancer Society. For more information on specific ordering procedure, visit the Facebook event page. If you've ever rolled your eyes at an AA price tag, you know this is a good deal.
Because Relay for Life of Penn State is conducting this sale for a nonprofit organization, they were able to obtain a license from American Apparel to sell their products wholesale, eliminating the retail markup you'd see in a store. There are no costs for paying employees, leasing retail space, and, most of all, no profit being made. So in order to get the special price, you have to order through this particular sale. You would have anyway to help out the American Cancer Society, right? Two birds, one stone. Your move.
Last Saturday, students from the Schreyer Honors College dedicated their time by participating in the 2nd Annual Schreyer Day of Service. The Honors College sent out students to various locations around Centre County, performing an array of tasks that were a testament to the versatility of the group of students serving.
As one might think of closely befitting of the SHC, some students sorted documents at the Centre County Library Historical Museum in Bellefonte. However, others got dirt and mud on their hands while gardening at the Arboretum right here on campus. Schreyer students reached out to the whole Centre County community that needed a hand.
The Day of Service is still a small, upstart operation, and the chairperson position for next year's Day of Service is open. Contact Faculty Advisor Dina Liberatore at [email protected] if you are interested in taking an active role in giving back.
The 3rd Annual IdeaPitch Competition is a generator of that which America needs most in these hard economic times-- entrepreneurial businesses.
Hosted by the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Smeal College of Business, IdeaPitch allows teams (of which only one member has to be a Penn State student) to compete for resources and venture capital funding. The format of the competition is similar to what one would face in pursuing money from an established venture capital firm.
The grand prize is $2000, but unless you're starting a blog, that won't get you very far. In addition to the cash, the winning team gets office space in the Keller Building, the chance to participate in the Garber Practicum and potentially receive money from the Garber Fund, and free access to any legal services the team may need.
Past overall winners have been primarily technological. Last year's winner was a piece of software that linked together study aids for all the major college admissions tests. Before that was a group that offered a synthetic version of drywall.
This Friday will be the "Final Eight" round, where prizes will be presented.
Forget health care in the U.S. for a minute. Forget that even under the old system (regardless of whether you think it's flawed or not), most people got at least some health care. Think for a minute of the people who have no health care. This coming Saturday, the 3rd Annual Penn State Global Health Conference will be a day of doing exactly that.
The conference is run by Penn State's chapter of GlobeMed and consists of a series of workshops led chiefly by Penn State professors. To give you an idea, some of the titles are "Issues in Health Communications," "Environmental Health," and "The Impact of Race and Stigma on People with HIV/AIDS in South Africa." The conference is intended to raise awareness of disparities in health care throughout the world, and to foster a sense of responsibility toward those negatively affected. The organization and conference also concretely make a difference through GlobeMed at Penn State's partner in Mexico, EAPSEC.
More on GlobeMed's mission and fundraising efforts after the jump.
To delve deeper into the underlying motions and teaching of golf, the Golf Teaching and Research Center opened last November. The GTRC uses motion-capture technology to accomplish this task.
You can saunter down to 5 Keller and don one of these motion-capture suits once reserved for the likes of movie productions with multi-million-dollar budgets and Tiger Woods having his swing captured for use in EA Sports' golf video games bearing his name (mistresses sold separately).
Read the full post to find out some of the more intricate details of this system.