The Penn State Board of Trustees will hold a special phone conference Sunday evening at 5 p.m. to discuss the consent decree with the NCAA accepting the sanctions, a board source confirmed to Onward State earlier today.
The Penn State Blue Band’s Touch of Blue Majorettes brought home a National Championship and quite a few other awards from the National Baton Twirling Association competition this summer. Read more about their accomplishments after the jump!
Penn State scientists helped construct the largest 3-D map of the universe, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is responsible for the imaging of over 200-million galaxies. Using BOSS technology (Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey), Data Release 9 -- the most recent release -- has shown the positions of 800,000 new galaxies, quasars, and stars, bringing the total to over 1.35 million.
Infectious pop-punk acts, The Maine and Mayday Parade, are set to make a Penn State appearance on October 20th according to a leaked tour schedule published by AltPress. But this isn't the first stop in Happy Valley for the Fearless Records rockers, Mayday Parade. The Florida five-piece performed at Penn State back in 2010 for that year's Movin' On to a less than favorable response. Learn more about the artists to perform in Happy Valley--or at least add some new music to your Spotify playlist--after the jump.
There are just six days left in this year's Olympics, and a school-wide record of 19 Olympians have been competing in various sports such as cycling, volleyball, fencing, gymnastics, rowing, soccer and track and field, representing eight different countries. Here's a recap of how the Penn Staters have done so far.
It is with a heavy heart that I write of the passing of Isabella Rinier, or as many of the THON family came to know her, Bella.