Buffalo Sabres owner and benevolent Penn State donor Terry Pegula was name a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award, the highest honor the University can bestow on a graduate.
A former Penn State vice president known for her tireless community and civil rights efforts has died at the age of 88.
"No university has ever done this before," says student team leader Ajeeth Ibrahim. "This is going to be the biggest thing to happen to the space industry, probably since the Apollo moment.”
By the end of 2015, Penn State hopes to complete the first privately funded mission to the moon, ever, for a shot at $20 million in prize money through the Google Lunar X Prize competition. To that end, the Lunar Lion, the Penn State-led Google Lunar X Prize team, has just launched a crowdfunding campaign on Rockethub, with the goal of raising $400,000 by Feb. 25.
I took a tour of the construction site during winter break, and although it doesn't look like much yet, parts of the HUB, including the new bookstore space, are still on schedule to open by the 2014 Fall semester.
This week we have three more love stories featuring a couple that met in their freshman dorm common room, a couple that met during LEAP, and lastly, in an Industrial Engineering class.