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.
Interim Executive Vice President and Provost, Rob Pangborn, sent out a mass email to Undergraduate students advising them to stop downloading illegal content from the internet. Chances are you immediately deleted the email upon receiving it. President Rob Pangborn is not a big fan of the Pirate community at Penn State.
Did you tune out the news while you were home for our (ridiculously short) winter break? We don't blame you -- the 24-hour news cycle can be exhausting! Here's a run-down of everything you might have missed while trying to avoid all those people you graduated high school with while perusing your old favorite hometown locales.
A new soccer scholarship is planned to honor the recent passing of John William McKenzie Brady, known as "Mack," the young son of Schreyer Honors College Dean, Christian Brady and Elizabeth Brady. Mack, eight, an avid soccer player with aspirations to someday play soccer professionally, was attending Park Forrest Elementary School. The scholarship is being established in Mack’s honor to benefit a member of Penn State’s men’s soccer team.
There's a reason Penn State offensive guard John Urschel's twitter handle is @mathmeetsfball. The Academic All-American carries a 4.0 GPA into graduate school and also serves as the starting right guard on the Penn State football team. And now, Penn Staters can take a class with him.