A statewide grand jury determined that at least 50 priests or religious leaders in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown sexually abused hundreds of children over a period of 40 years, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced Tuesday. Of those named in the grand jury testimony, there are priests who were connected to both Penn State and the State College area.
Penn State revoked a PhD last week due to newly discovered plagiarism, according to a memo distributed to all graduate students and faculty.
President Barack Obama sought out the nation's best and brightest scientists and found one right here at Penn State. Dr. Jennifer Miksis-Olds was selected as one of 105 people to receive the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
Financial literacy is an issue that UPUA has always tried to tackle in various ways, most notably with the establishment of the Student Financial Education Center. Now, our student government is looking deeper into the problem and is hoping to finish out the semester with a report on why Penn State is ranked so poorly and how students use the Office of Student Aid.
State College vapers are in luck, as Valley Vapes just opened downtown.
Dr. David Puts a mixes humor, science and sex in his Anthropology 216, Sex and Evolution course. And the course is more intellectual and scientifically proven lessons than “don’t have sex because you will get pregnant and you will die.”