LaVarr McBride, instructor in administration of justice at Penn State Beaver, will be the featured guest speaker at the Beaver Rotary Club's luncheon meeting, Wednesday, Feb. 29, at the Wooden Angel, in Bridgewater. McBride also is the program coordinator and internship supervisor for the program which is delivered jointly with Penn State New Kensington and Penn State Shenango. (more)
A unique and innovative analysis of how social media can affect the spread of a disease has been designed and implemented by a scientist at Penn State studying attitudes toward the H1N1 vaccine. Marcel Salathe, an assistant professor of biology, studied how users of Twitter -- a popular microblogging and social-networking service -- expressed their sentiments about a new vaccine. He then tracked how the users' attitudes correlated with vaccination rates and how microbloggers with the same negative or positive feelings seemed to influence others in their social circles. The research is considered the first case study in how social media sites affect and reflect disease networks, and the method is expected to be repeated in the study of other diseases. The results will be published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology. (more)
Today (June 30) is World Social Media Day. Celebrate with Penn State by joining the conversation with hundreds of thousands of fellow Nittany Lions. With 218,000 fans, Penn State's official page on Facebook is one of the most popular university pages in the world, more than doubling its fan count in the past year. See what other Penn Staters are talking about while enjoying news, photos, videos and more at facebook.com/pennstate. On Twitter, join the thousands who already follow @penn_state for news and discussion and @pennstatelive for a feed of the University's latest news headlines. And check out University photos, videos, professional networking and more. (more)
All of those Twitter tweets and Facebook friends may have value after all, according to Penn State researchers. Updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other real-time content sites could be worth more than $30 million a day, or nearly $10.9 billion a year, to advertisers, said Jim Jansen, associate professor, information sciences and technology. (more)
Well more than 150,000 students, alumni, friends and fans of Penn State are staying connected to the University through Penn State's official page on Facebook and through two accounts on Twitter. The University's official page on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/pennstate, is a hub of daily activity for more than 152,000 Penn Staters. On Twitter, thousands are following two official University feeds at http://www.twitter.com/pennstatelive and http://www.twitter.com/penn_state. With winter fast approaching, following Penn State on Twitter and Facebook also gives members of the University community another way to receive up-to-the-minute announcements of emergency notifications and cancellations. (more)
Well more than 150,000 students, alumni, friends and fans of Penn State are staying connected to the University through Penn State's official page on Facebook and through two accounts on Twitter. The University's official page on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/pennstate, is a hub of daily activity for more than 152,000 Penn Staters. On Twitter, thousands are following two official University feeds at http://www.twitter.com/pennstatelive and http://www.twitter.com/penn_state. With winter fast approaching, following Penn State on Twitter and Facebook also gives members of the University community another way to receive up-to-the-minute announcements of emergency notifications and cancellations. (more)
Pennsylvania College of Technology recently established a presence on the social-networking website Twitter. Some possible uses include emergency alerts from Penn College Police, updates of athletic events in progress, and time-sensitive sales announcements from Dining Services. Up-to-the-minute news and information from Penn College can be found at http://www.twitter.com/penncollege. (more)
How do women benefit from playing collegiate sports, and what challenges have athletes, coaches and reporters faced since Title IX was enacted in 1972 through the present day? What issues do stadium designers look at from the ground up, and how do today's rowdy fans and post-9/11 security concerns affect structural decisions and game-day operations? Two noontime "Expert Opinion with Graham Spanier" shows on the Big Ten Network aim to find out. (more)
Well more than 100,000 students, alumni, friends and fans of Penn State are staying connected to the University through Penn State's official page on Facebook and through two accounts on Twitter. The University's official page on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/pennstate, is a hub of daily activity for more than 104,000 Penn Staters. On Twitter, thousands are following two official University feeds at http://www.twitter.com/pennstatelive and http://www.twitter.com/penn_state. (more)
