Following his talk at the Inaugural 2014 State of State Conference this past Sunday, famed Penn State SOC 119 professor Sam Richards will take the stage again tomorrow, this time 5,179 miles away in Porto Alegre, Brazil at TEDxLaçador.
At the Schreyer Honors College's Shaping the Future Summit on Tuesday, X Prize founder Peter Diamandis praised and endorsed the Lunar Lion's mission to not only become the first entity besides the governments of the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China to land on the moon, but also to become the first university to accomplish that feat.
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 Great Valley.
Entrepreneurs ("hackers") of all walks of life -- coders, graphic designers, engineers, marketers -- will "hack" (create prototypes) for 36 hours straight at HackPSU, Penn State's hackathon. The competition, hosted at the IST Building, will run from tomorrow night at 10 p.m. until 10 a.m. on Sunday.
Sponsored again by student-run accelerator Innoblue, the event will feature students from a wide-array of schools including: the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, and Carnegie Mellon University. The event is free to all attendees, mainly due to it's sponsorships from State College-based software developer Videon Central, IST Startup Week, and Readyforce.
Penn State will bring back Sexual Violence Prevention and Awareness Month this April.
Erickson is not average, nor was his task. He was close to retirement from his role of vice president and provost before being thrown into the president’s role on Nov. 9, 2011, during tremendous tumult. Penn State’s darkest days followed: Criminal charges and convictions for former employees, its football program nearly put into a coma, a once-sterling reputation smeared; and it was up to the man who’d been on staff since 1977 to see it through. When he accepted the role on that day, he said he did so under “circumstances I never could have imagined.”