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Lady Lions Alex Bentley, left, and Zhaque Gray celebrate their Big Ten championship after beating Ohio State 84-66 on Monday, Feb. 20, at the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus. The Lady Lions clinched their first conference regular season title since 2004.

Lady Lions win Big Ten championship

THON 2012 shattered last year's total, raising $10,686,924.83 for the Four Diamonds Fund.

THON 2012 breaks $10 million

THON child Megan Eslinger, 4, chases bubbles blown by dancer Elizabeth Ferrari on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 18, during THON at the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus. The 46-hour no-sitting, no-sleeping event raises millions of dollars each year for the Four Diamonds Fund.

THON 2012 going strong

Owen Divers and Quinn Allen started off strong for THON 2012 on Friday, Feb. 17.

THON 2012 under way

Mike Rybar made final adjustments to the Penn State Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering teams Goldberg machine prior to the 2012 Rube Goldberg competition held on Feb. 11 at Penn State's Nittany Lion Inn. Rybar and his team created a musically themed machine that needed to complete a simple task (inflate a balloon) in twenty or more elaborate steps. The annual competition is named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg who created famous artwork depicting overly complicated machines doing everyday tasks.

Rube Goldberg Competition: Feb. 11, 2012

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Penn State ranks high in producing alumni Peace Corps volunteers

Friday, January 27, 2012

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- For the second year in a row, Penn State has been ranked 20th on the Peace Corps’ 2012 rankings of colleges and universities in the large school category. There are currently 65 Penn State undergraduate alumni serving overseas, an increase from last year’s 58 volunteers.

“It’s exciting to me that students at Penn State have a strong interest in participating in service opportunities,” said Nellie Bhattarai, Penn State Peace Corps recruiter. “Peace Corps takes the skills and personality of an individual and uses it to impact others in a community-oriented manner.”

U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who challenged college students to cultivate peaceful ties with the international community by living and working in developing countries, established the Peace Corps in 1961. From that inspiration grew an agency of the federal government devoted to establishing international relationships through work that enhances the lives of struggling communities worldwide.

Penn State Peace Corps volunteers live and work in developing countries on grass-roots projects in agriculture, education, the environment, health and HIV/AIDS education and prevention, small business development and youth development. They are stationed in Africa, South and Central America, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Penn State shares the No. 20 position with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Four other Big Ten universities placed in the top 25 large school category in the Peace Corps’ 2012 rankings including the University of Wisconsin-Madison at No. 3 (107 volunteers), University of Michigan at No. 5 (97 volunteers), Michigan State at No. 7 (90 volunteers) and Ohio State at No. 13 (71 volunteers). Penn State is the only Pennsylvania university ranked within the top 25 universities producing alumni Peace Corps volunteers in any category this year.

For more information about becoming a Peace Corps volunteer, visit http://studentaffairs.psu.edu/career/students/PeaceCorps.shtml.