Penn State laureate, School of Music host high school singers
November 18, 2009
Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company performs at Eisenhower
November 17, 2009
Students to present major Disney production For The Kids
November 16, 2009
Penn State celebrates Senior Day
November 14, 2009
Hershey breaks ground for Children's Hospital
November 13, 2009
Kronos Quartet performs at Eisenhower Auditorium
November 10, 2009
Rally in the Valley excites fans
November 6, 2009
Students capture fall at University Park
November 5, 2009
Penn State Greeks strut their Broadway stuff
November 1, 2009
THON 5K draws thousands
November 1, 2009
2009 State of the University Address
Poultry science professor shares turkey news
Penn State Solar Decathlon 2009, part two: Natural Fusion goes to Washington
Natural Fusion, Penn State's Solar Decathlon Team 2009
Behind the scenes with the stadium concessions team
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
Beaver Stadium Behind the Scenes and On the Air
Beaver Stadium Behind the Scenes: Video Board
Video gives students sneak peek at new campus location
Historic Old Main Bell removed from tower for restoration and display
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Penn State Harrisburg is a key partner in a federally funded University initiative aimed at encouraging Pennsylvania school students to consider college majors which lead to careers in the U.S. intelligence community. (more)
Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member Steven R. Parker recently trained the local County Animal Response Team to deal with an intentional livestock infection. Certified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a Master Trainer, Parker presented "Foreign Animal Disease Response and Counter-Terrorism Preparedness." (more)
A Penn State Harrisburg faculty member is playing a lead role in the University's international efforts to strengthen the fight against terrorism. With an international reputation for research and writings on terrorism, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science Michael Kenney has been named the first Fellow of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism (ICST) headquartered in the College of The Liberal Arts on the University Park campus. (more)
Penn State will serve as a designated research collaborator in a first-of-its-kind center funded by the Department of Defense (DoD), to focus on systems engineering issues facing the DoD and related defense industries. Known as the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), the effort is the nation's first University Affiliated Research Center devoted to systems engineering research. Penn State will participate as part of a consortium of 18 leading collaborator universities and research centers throughout the United States. (more)
The scourge of modern terrorism can be tackled more effectively by understanding how and why certain individuals give up their violent ways, according to a counter-terrorism expert at Penn State who says information gleaned from ex-terrorists could provide clues to checking the growth of militant organizations. (more)
"As we go forward, security must be integrated into our everyday thinking. But in our society, we have to ensure that that security does not undermine the very basic differences between our society and others, which is the sanctity of human life, the Constitutional rights that we as a society have established our country upon, and which we must maintain in order to differentiate a civilized society against that which is, in fact, intended to destroy the civilization that we know of, and to return to a very medieval form of control of religion, control of culture, control of literature and the virtual enslavement of half the population, meaning the female half of the population. Those are the stakes that are involved."
-- Oliver "Buck" Revell, global business and security consultant and former Marine and FBI special agent, who discussed "Terrorism, the Current and Future Threat to America," during the Penn State Forum today (Dec. 8) at University Park. Revell served for five years as an officer and aviator in the U.S. Marine Corps, leaving active duty in 1964 as a captain. He then served 30 years as a special agent and senior executive of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1964-1994). In September 1987, Revell was placed in charge of a joint FBI/CIA/U.S. military operation (Operation Goldenrod) which led to the first apprehension overseas of an international terrorist. He is also author of the book "G-Man's Journal: A Legendary Career Inside the FBI -- From the Kennedy Assassination to the Oklahoma City Bombing." (more)
A Penn State milestone is expected Dec. 20, as the first degrees in Security and Risk Analysis (SRA) are to be awarded at ceremonies in the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus. Five students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) plan to receive their bachelor of science diplomas in a major launched in 2006 to meet society's need to assure information safety, combat cyber-terrorism and effectively respond to emergencies and disasters. (more)
Students in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) are targeting improvised explosive devices (IEDs), a major threat in Iraq, in a study under the supervision of Jake Graham, IST senior research associate. According to Graham, a retired Marine Corps colonel and veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 11 student volunteers are delving into the "IED continuum," an ever-evolving cycle leading to development and use of these weapons. (more)
Penn State President Graham Spanier was recognized in Washington, D.C., on Friday for his leadership in national security. Spanier received the "Award for Excellence in Public Service" during a ceremony at FBI headquarters. (more)
A team of Penn State researchers representing the North-East Visualization and Analytics Center (NEVAC) was one of three winners in the 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Visual Analytics Science and Technology Grand Challenge. The team developed and applied a set of geographically enhanced visual analytics tools to a prototypical homeland security information analysis problem. (more)
