In an effort to raise recycling participation in residence halls across campus, the Campus Sustainability Office is sponsoring Zero to Hero: The Great Penn State Recycling Challenge.
Malcolm Moran, the Knight Chair of Sports Journalism and Society for Penn State's John Curley Center for Sports Journalism, is leaving Penn State. Effective in January 1, Moran will assume the role of director of the National Sports Journalism Center located in Indianapolis and associated with the Indiana University School of Journalism.
A Penn State team is working in a contest from Google to send a space craft to the moon before 2015. I can't believe this isn't like, huge news - but it's been happening since 2011. They have students and Penn State advisers working together to send the Lunar Lion to the moon - except landing on the surface isn't enough! Read more to find out what the Lunar Lion is.
According to a recent Huffington Post article, Penn State is ranked #2 on The Princeton Review's College Rankings of "Financial Aid Not So Great." This ranking puts PSU just behind New York University (#1) and in front of the University of Maryland (#3). Penn State is also one of three Pennsylvania universities that make the top ten on this list, including Duquesne University (#6) and Villanova University (#8).
With the help of ScanEye -- a website that monitors public torrent usage based on IP addresses -- Torrent Freak obtained a list of the most active universities using torrent networks. Penn State University ranks 25th in the country on the list with 381 "hits" since last November.
Most of you probably haven't heard the name of J.M. Coetzee. Regardless, it's still a big deal, since Coetzee, an acclaimed South African-born author, will be on hand at Penn State on Thursday evening to be honored with a medal by the Institute of Arts and Humanities, as well as to give a reading from some of his works. The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. in the State Theatre.