There are 24 campuses in the Penn State system. The one that gets the most attention is University Park, but what about the other 23? That’s where we come in with our newest 23 part series, Better Know a Branch Campus, inspired by Stephen Colbert’s Better Know a District. Next up: Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Last week, I asked where you were when Joe Paterno was fired on the evening of November 9, 2011. Many of your responses featured locations from across the country, ranging from Florida to Kentucky. We compiled a few of the memories from former and current students who were in State College.
Penn State's undergraduate Landscape Architecture program has been ranked #1 by Design Intelligence. The program jumped two spots this year, up from a #3 ranking a year ago. It was previously the highest ranked undergraduate Landscape Architecture program in the poll in 2007.
The Lunar Lion team completed its first series of rocket thruster tests recently, putting the university-run Google Lunar X Prize team on track to completing the first privately funded mission to the moon.
U.S. News rated Penn State as the highest national university that offers rolling admissions, according to data reported by 270 ranked schools in a survey. Of those 270 schools, 79 offer rolling admissions.
The new healthcare legislation will directly affect all student employees at Penn State by limiting how many jobs they can have and how many hours a week they may work.