It's been a great year for the Penn State squirrel. The Squirrel Whisperer article on Onward State remains as one of the most read posts in our history. Sneezy the Penn State Squirrel has become a household name and its Facebook page has almost as many likes as The Daily Collegian. But just how did the Penn State squirrel come to be?
The Penn State Board of Trustees will elect a new Chair and Vice Chair at its next meeting this Friday, after Karen Peetz decided that she will not seek re-election.
Keith Masser, the current Vice Chair, has announced his intention to run for Chair and Stephanie Deviney has announced her intention to run for Vice Chair.
Unfortunately for Penn State, no one knows what has happened to the man who stabbed a graduate student near Vairo Boulevard back on December 12. The man, who was described as 5'8" and Caucasian, stabbed the woman in the throat on a bike trail.
Classes have begun in the new Biobehavioral Health Building which has closed a large part of the HUB lawn for most of the last two years. Although the project is not completely finished yet, classes are being held in the completed part. Here's a look inside.
The Lunar Lion team -- composed of Penn State students, faculty, and engineers from the Applied Research Laboratory -- will be participating in Google Lunar X PRIZE, a competition to land a privately-funded robot on the moon. I was able to sit down with Lunar Lion Team Lead Michael Paul to discuss everything from the project itself to his views on the evolution of the aerospace industry to Penn State's role in the future of space exploration.
A national search is underway to fill a vice president for communications and marketing position at Penn State. The search committee contains fourteen individuals, and the chosen applicant will have many responsibilities ranging from social media to crisis communication.