From March 18-23, the College of Information Sciences and Technology will be hosting the second annual #ISTStartup Week. The event is designed to showcase various entrepreneurial talent from across the country, among them Penn State alumni such as Weebly co-founder David Rusenko (Class of '07; @drusenko) and Sincerely co-founder Matt Brezina (Class of '03; @brezina).
History was made Monday, February 18 as a new Nittany Lion mascot was chosen to represent Penn State for the next two years.
The theme for this year's homecoming has been announced. It was revealed this afternoon at THON by Homecoming Executive Director Bobby Walter, that the homecoming 2013 theme will be "Generations Evolve, Tradition Remains!"
Penn State's official website psu.edu received a much needed site redesign yesterday, the first major update to Penn State's web presence in almost 11 years. Additionally, the official news website of Penn State -- the misnomer formerly known as live.psu.edu -- has been transformed to news.psu.edu and the Twitter account changed to @pennstatenews.
The snow may have been coming down, but that didn't stop UPUA from having a busy and (unfortunately) long evening. With candidate registration starting in a week, UPUA really had to kick it into gear this week in order to get ready for the upcoming election season.
48 applicants to Penn State's MBA program were rejected due to plagiarism in their admissions essays, according to an article last week from Bloomberg Businessweek. The school used Turnitin, a website which checks submissions against websites, other student papers, and publications for consistencies that would be considered plagiarism.