Most Penn State professors don’t like Rate My Professor, because of its tendency to attract extreme positive or negative ratings, and because it can be a forum for venting. They prefer to get feedback on their classes through SRTEs.
Dana O'Neil, a Penn State graduate and ESPN college basketball writer, will be speaking on campus to students in the College of Communications.
A single caller repeatedly contacted Penn State Police to leave non-specific bomb threats. The caller said there were explosive devices in every building on campus. The caller said there was a suicide bomber at 9th avenue and 7th street, but there is no such intersection on or near the University Park campus.
President-elect Eric Barron has been on campus for several weeks now preparing for his first official day on May 12. He has mostly stayed under the radar, but for the first time ever this afternoon, Penn State's 18th president addressed a large group of Penn State students in an official capacity.
Along with a team of astronomers and scientists at NASA, Ford helped discover the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the "habitable zone," the distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.
Former Senator Robert Jubelirer (R- Blair County) is running to become a Pennsylvania State University Trustee. Penn State alumni, please take a moment to read this biography before you cast a vote.