Penn State University Libraries invites Penn State students, faculty and staff to submit original short stories or poetry centered on the theme “Written in the Stars” to the spring short stories writing contest, accepting submissions from Feb. 24 to April 4.
Penn State Abington education professor Boni Wozolek's scholarship considers questions of social justice and teaching practices that focus on the examination of race, sexual orientations, and gender identities across schools and communities.
Penn State Abington baseball started a new era last weekend with a former Major League Baseball player at the helm. The team set school marks for hits and runs in a game, and a senior infielder broke three career records.
The LiveOn Student Success Grant provides need-based recipients at Penn State approximately $12,000 across four years to help bridge the cost of campus room and board.
Josh Ventura, Penn State class of 2021, is using the entrepreneurial mindset he refined at Penn State Abington to invest in his Philadelphia neighborhood and work with at-risk youth who call the area home.
Penn State Abington Chancellor Margo DelliCarpini was interviewed on Executive Leaders Radio, a national program that shares how chief executives developed the skills that enabled them to successfully helm organizations.
Interactive gaming, or online gambling, became legal in Pennsylvania in 2017. In the first assessment of how this policy change is impacting Pennsylvanians, a recently released report by Penn State researchers and the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs found that approximately 1 in 10 Pennsylvanians engage in interactive gaming.
"Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America," the latest book by Liliana Naydan, associate professor of English at Penn State Abington, was ranked as the No. 1 new release in 21st century literary criticism on Amazon.com.
Criminal justice data is under-utilized in research despite its high relevance and unique role in the opioid crisis, according to a recent study by Penn State researchers using crime incident data. The study found that opioid-related crime incident rates were positively associated with rates of opioid-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations and overdose mortality.
