Penn State set a school record during the 2012-2013 athletic year with 296 Academic All-Big Ten recipients, shattering the previous record of 261 during the 2007-2008 campaign.
Don't tell Penn State offensive guard Eric Shrive that he won't be able to reach his goal.
Shrive, the president of Penn State's Uplifting Athletes chapter, has set a goal for the organization to raise $300,000 this year, which would shatter last year's $110,000 total.
Emmy-award winning journalist Bob Costas, along with Paterno family lawyer Wick Sollers, former Pennsylvania governor Dick Thornburgh, and Paterno spokesman Dan McGinn, discussed the Freeh report and Paterno's legacy on NBC Wednesday night for nearly an hour, honoring a promise Costas made to reevaluate his initial opinion on the maligned report. Sollers also introduced a lawsuit against the NCAA, its president Mark Emmert, and former NCAA Executive Board chair Ed Ray, which is expected to be filed Thursday morning at the Common Pleas Court.
As spring turns into summer, it's getting to be that time of year again -- time to order your Penn State football student season tickets. Penn State Student Central recently released the dates for the 2013 sale. Clear your mornings on these days.
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 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.