The Wall Street Journal's magazine SmartMoney released rankings of return on investment at some of the country's most expensive colleges. The magazine analyzed tuition over four years as well as median salaries for recent graduates (graduates from 3 years ago) and mid-career graduates (graduates from 15 years ago). Penn State ranks 13th in their model, above the entire Ivy League.
It's that time of the week again. Everyone's favorite student government, the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA), held their weekly assembly meeting last night, and boy was it a barnburner, folks.
Penn State Live posted an interesting slideshow yesterday that captured the progression of Penn State's campus over more than 100 years. From the Farmers' High School, to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State College, and finally The Pennsylvania State University, our learning community has done a lot of growing up over the years.
Overall, Hyundai has donated a total of more than $45 million to pediatric cancer in 14 years, and by the end of 2012, the total will be more than $57 million. As reported by Gant Daily, over $325,000 of that total is going to the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital in honor National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. In addition, Hyundai is also donating $10,000 to go toward electronic purchases to go in the teen activity areas.
We all know who Ernest Hemingway is. Chances are that you read A Farewell To Arms or one of his other famous novels in high school -- well, read them on Sparknotes, but you get the idea. Thanks to his writing, Hemingway has earned a reputation as a brash, war-hardened, angry man. But that reputation is being changed, largely thanks to a the Hemingway Letters Project led by Penn State professor Sandra Spanier, wife of our dear former leader Graham Spanier.
On September 14th of this year, the Michael P. Murphy Veterans Plaza, located between Old Main and McAllister, was unveiled and dedicated. Yesterday, the Plaza bore the marks of alleged vandalism--what seem to be tire marks from BMX “wall-rides”.