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
Nick Doyle, a computer science sophomore, and his team, Beta Max, are U.S. finalists in the Microsoft Imagine Cup and competing for the People's Choice Award in the software design category.
Doyle worked with team members, Daniel Sullivan, a computer science sophomore at Drexel University, and Nicole Micheletti, a sophomore art major at Temple University, to create a three-tier software system that will digitize collected information from community health care workers for a clinic in Sierra Leone. Africa. (more)
Xiangyu Dong, a graduate student in computer science and engineering (CSE) at Penn State, was named one of three winners in the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Research Competition Grand Finals 2011 on June 4 in San Jose, Calif. (more)
Abhradeep Guha Thakurt, a graduate student in computer science and engineering in Penn State's College of Engineering, has received the Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Program Award. (more)
Three Penn State engineering faculty members have each received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The faculty members are Enrique Gomez, assistant professor of chemical engineering; Daniel Kifer, assistant professor of computer science and engineering; and Suzanne Shontz, assistant professor of computer science and engineering. (more)
Freshman computer science major Jordan Franssen was recognized by President Barack Obama at the White House Science Fair on Oct. 18. He and his three teammates from Penn Manor High School in Millersville, Pa., won both the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) in May and the Transatlantic Rocketry Challenge in June, finishing in first place from among 669 teams and giving them the title of best rocketry students in the world. (more)
Comparing the DNA of modern and ancient humans can show us similarities and differences in our basic biology, said Webb Miller, professor of biology and computer science. It can tell us which prehistoric populations died out completely, and which contributed genes to modern humans. It can even be used to reconstruct the appearance of ancient humans. (more)
Mary Jane Irwin, the A. Robert Noll chair of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State, was named the 2010-11 Athena Lecturer by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Council on Women in Computing. (more)
Byung Chul Tak, a doctorate candidate in computer science and engineering, has been awarded an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for the 2010-11 academic year. The IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honor exceptional doctoral students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study. (more)
Swarat Chaudhuri and Bhuvan Urgaonkar, both assistant professors of computer science and engineering at Penn State, have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. (more)
For the 17th consecutive year, two teams of Penn State Harrisburg Computer Science students are preparing to compete in the world's most prestigious programming competition. (more)
