
With the 2012 Homecoming celebration coming to a close a couple weeks ago, preparations for the 2013 Homecoming week are already underway. Bobby Walter -- who served as the Homecoming Public Relations Director this past year -- was named as the new 2013 Executive Director on Monday. Walter was kind enough to answer 10 questions for us in the latest installment of our 10 question interview series.
On the gridiron, senior linebackers Gerald Hodges and Michael Mauti have a lot in common. Step off the field, and some of the similarities begin to fade away. A few days from now, the two senior linebackers will play a major role as the defense attempts to contain an explosive Ohio State offense.

A recovery fund has been started in other to help support Paige Raque, the Penn State cheerleader that suffered a tragic fall from the window of her fifth-story Calder Commons apartment last weekend. Her friend, Ally Zimmerman, is organizing a bracelet sale to benefit the fund.

ESPN released its Week 9 Power Rankings today, and Penn State finally jumped in as the twenty-fourth ranked team. Every Penn Stater knows this is a huge accomplishment for a team that has gone through so much adversity for the past year, and it is about time people starts noticing how much we deserve this.

Penn State senior Matt Besong recently developed Fight on State, an iPhone app featuring the Penn State Blue Band that was released today. The premise of the game is help the drum major land his signature pregame flip. There's one catch, though -- the football team is still on the field, and charging at the drum major at an alarming rate!

Big corporations love Penn State. This probably isn’t news to you, since you’ve likely read this oft-cited Wall Street Journal article ranking Penn State as the top destination for corporate recruiters, and it’s no secret that the university is contracted for research by many companies. Accordingly, executives from General Electric (GE), Siemens Corporation, and Volvo will be visiting Penn State over the next two weeks to highlight and discuss their respective relationships with the university.