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
Penn State's Advanced Vehicle Team won six awards at the EcoCAR 2 Year One Final Competition May 18 to 23 in Los Angeles. (more)
Students on the Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team are putting the finishing touches on presentations and materials in preparation for the EcoCAR 2 Year One Final Competition in Los Angeles beginning Thursday, May 17. Penn State is one of 15 North American teams competing in EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future. The goal is to reduce the environmental impact of a General Motors-donated 2013 Chevrolet Malibu by improving its fuel efficiency and reducing its emissions while retaining its performance and consumer appeal. Throughout year one, students were hard at work designing their advanced propulsion technologies to incorporate in their vehicle in years two and three. (more)
Patrick Reed, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, has been named the winner of the 2012 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). (more)
A blood drive for the American Red Cross will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 31 in Kunkle Lounge in Hammond Building on Penn State's University Park campus. The event is sponsored by the Engineering Graduate Student Council and College of Engineering. (more)
Ali M. Memari, professor of architectural engineering, has been named the Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair of Residential Construction and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center (PHRC), effective July 1. (more)
The Penn State Engineering Ambassadors program has been named the winner of the 2012 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for its efforts in diversity and inclusiveness. (more)
Penn State has received a significant grant from Chevron Technology Corporation to support student programs, research infrastructure, and scholarships/fellowships in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, the College of Engineering, and the Smeal College of Business, as well as program support for the Palmer Museum of Art and THON. (more)
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)
Penn State's Department of Architectural Engineering has won an award for teaching building information model (BIM) technology. The department will receive the Academic Program/Curriculum Development Award for its interdisciplinary collaborative BIM studio at the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) national convention later this month. (more)
Before a crowd of more than a thousand engineering seniors, Robert D. Braun, the David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology and director of the Space Systems Design Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology, exhorted the class of 2012 to change the world through innovation. (more)
