Still Life
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Children explore career options at University Park
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
Second Life, a virtual world created in 2003, currently boasts more than 12 million users worldwide who go there for everything from college recruiting to shopping. Now, Penn State researchers are investigating how virtual teams can better solve real world problems by collaborating in Second Life. (more)
Penn State undergraduate Nathan McNeese and information sciences and technology professors Gerry Santoro and Michael McNeese created an experiment in which students were student teams were asked to solve a problem in different ways. Ten teams worked face-to-face, 10 teams worked through teleconferencing and 12 teams worked as groups of avatars in Second Life. (more)
Virtual communities such as Second Life and multi-player online games are not exempt from the law, financial regulations and public policy, a researcher in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) argues in two conference papers. (more)
