Are you the kind of person that sits around all day thinking of names for things (scientist, rapper, politician)? Well, the Eberly College of Science has just the opportunity for you! The Eberly College is adding a new student center to the Ritenour building:
The east wing of Ritenour Building will soon be home to science undergraduate co-op, internship, and externship information, as well as advising and career advice...vitally important career resources, brought together in one place. This new student center, designed specially for science students, will provide comfortable furnishings and space to study, learn, and collaborate.
It's like the HUB... only for science kids. Anyways, they need help coming up with a name for the student center. What would you receive for your efforts? The winner of the contest receives an iPod touch, a $250 gift certificate to the Penn State bookstore, and the chance to officially name the student center. Four runners-up will also receive a $50 gift certificate. You can enter as many times as you like until January 25.
How’s that one song go? “Each morning I get up to the…construction?” Yeah, that’s about right. Living in Pollock Halls, I can assure you that something is being built nearby. But what? Penn State is a couple months into the construction of the Millenium Science Complex, which was approved for construction last year. Yes, on the corner of […]
Gizmodo, that bastion of nerdtech writing, wrote yesterday about Penn State Environmental Engineering Professor Bruce Logan (He’s the older white gentleman). Logan’s current research projects include such mindblowing titles as, “Testing and Evaluation of System Materials for Creating a Scaleable Bioelectrically Assisted Microbial Reactor (BEAMR)”, and “Isolation and analysis of novel electochemically active bacteria for […]
What: A free public reception for the Universal Art Competition. Students from a variety of majors have come together to exhibit their astronomy-based artwork. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided, along with coffee and tea. Where: Gateway to the Sciences Overpass (The bridge between Life Sciences and Chemistry) When: Today, Monday, April 13th, 2009 from 6 […]
As reported in Onward State’s infancy (oh, times were simpler back then), a Penn State team of researchers, led by Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller, were the first to entirely sequence the genome of an extinct animal – the Wooly Mammoth. The folks over at TIME realize what a big deal this accomplishment is, and […]
In fact, he’s not a creationist at all, at least not in the literal sense. Dr. Michael Behe, biochemistry professor at Lehigh University, was invited by the Science and Bible Club to speak last night, reviewing the arguments of his two controversial books Darwin’s Black Box and The Edge of Evolution, directly challenging Darwin’s theory […]