Still Life
University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
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
Two communications professors will serve with officials from the Federal Communications Commission and other national experts during the 2010 Pennsylvania Broadband Summit in September. The College of Communications professors will share their expertise during the two-day session scheduled Sept. 20-21, in Camp Hill, Pa. They are Rob Frieden, the Pioneers Chair in cable telecommunications, and Krishna Jayakar, associate professor in the Department of Telecommunications. (more)
More than $99 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding was awarded today (Feb. 18) to the Keystone Initiative for Network-Based Education and Research (KINBER). Penn State is a founding member of KINBER, a coalition of Pennsylvania colleges and universities, research and healthcare organizations and economic development entities. The award will help fund the construction and management of the Pennsylvania Research and Education Network (PennREN), a robust, statewide broadband education and research network. (more)
University Park, Pa. -- Penn State has joined a broad coalition of colleges and universities, health care organizations and economic development entities across Pennsylvania that is seeking nearly $100 million in federal funding to build and maintain a broadband network that would greatly expand educational opportunities and health care services to millions of residents and thousands of businesses throughout the Commonwealth. (more)
Several Penn Staters will play prominent roles when the Institute for Information Policy (IIP), housed in the College of Communications, serves as a lead co-organizer for a program in Washington, D.C., which will address ongoing U.S. policy issues regarding broadband access. (more)
Proactive policies are needed to facilitate broadband Internet access and adoption in rural areas so that rural hospitals, schools and businesses can drive social and economic development and better position themselves to compete, say Penn State researchers in a recently released report from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. (more)
