The Penn State Board of Trustees voted this afternoon to discontinue the Science, Technology, and Society program, a cost-saving measure recommended by the Core Council this winter. The program will be discontinued effective June 30, 2012.
Championed by professor emeritus Rustum Roy about forty years ago, the program was one of the first of its kind and unique in its operation.
The STS minor will be discontinued, as will a number of courses housed in the program. Two other minors managed by the program -- the Bioethics and Medical Humanities minor and the Disability Studies minor -- will be relocated to the College of the Liberal Arts.
The Penn State Board of Trustees will convene in the Nittany Lion Inn later this morning. Onward State and our partner StateCollege.com will be providing live coverage from the meeting.
Penn State announced this morning that Linda Patterson Miller was named the 2011-12 Penn State laureate, succeeding current laureate Robin Becker. Miller, a professor of English at Penn State Abington, is the fourth laureate and the first to come from a campus other than University Park.
Penn State will be featured in an 8pm game this coming season, but it won't be broadcast by the Wordwide Leader in Sports. Yesterday afternoon, ESPN/ABC released their Big Ten primetime games for 2011 and Penn State was left off the list for the first time in over a decade.
A Penn State Abington student was shot dead in Philadelphia late Monday afternoon nearby Temple University, according to a report from NBC Philadelphia.
Mohan Varughese was sitting on the stoop of his girlfriend's house around 5:00 p.m. yesterday when a man walked up and asked for keys to the student's motorcycle. When Varughese refused, he was shot three times in the chest and face.
Cornell professor Dr. Anthony Ingraffea will speak in the HUB auditorium tomorrow night at 7:00 pm to discuss some myths and realities concerning the development of the Marcellus Shale.
Ingraffea is an expert on the subject. His research concentrates on computer simulation and physical testing of complex fracturing processes, according to his bio on Cornell's website, and he has been recognized by a number of industry and academic groups focused on the field.
The event is sponsored by the Sierra Club Moshannon Group and Penn State EcoAction.