Tuesday, November 24, 2009
For the second consecutive year, the Penn State Football program is at the head of the class in ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America selections. Three Nittany Lions have repeated their Academic All-America accolades on the 2009 team: senior linebacker Josh Hull (Millheim), senior kick snapper Andrew Pitz (Bettendorf, Iowa) and junior center Stefen Wisniewski (Bridgeville). Hull and Pitz were 2008 first team honorees and Wisniewski was a second team selection last year. (more)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday's results
Women's cross country: Penn State 14th at NCAA Championships
Today's schedule
No Penn State varsity teams in action. (more)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Dan Krupinsky and Tommy DeVito are getting national exposure while strengthening their resumes producing and announcing for Penn State Women's volleyball. Both seniors, the two are getting hands-on, real-world experience thanks to Penn State's athletic department and the Big Ten Network. (more)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Cell phones to their ears, a team of research participants will report their interpersonal interactions in real time to provide a better view of human behavior thanks to a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Aging as part of the National Institutes of Health's American Recover and Reinvestment Act funding. (more)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
A conference-high six members of the Penn State football team have been selected first team All-Big Ten and senior defensive tackle Jared Odrick (Lebanon) was named Defensive Player of the Year in voting by the conference head coaches and media panel. In addition to becoming Penn State's fourth conference Defensive Player of the Year in the past 12 seasons, Odrick also was named Defensive Lineman of the Year by the coaches. Odrick is the first interior lineman selected for the conference's top defensive honor since Ohio State's Dan Wilkinson in 1993. (more)
Monday, November 23, 2009
Friday's results
Men's basketball: Tulane 63, Penn State 60
Women's volleyball: Penn State 3, Purdue 1
Saturday's results
Football: Penn State 42, Michigan State 14
Men's swimming and diving: Virginia 210.5, Penn State 153.5
Women's swimming and diving: Virginia 183, Penn State 156
Women's volleyball: Penn State 3, Indiana 0
Sunday's results
Men's basketball: Penn State 59, Davidson 57
Women's basketball: South Carolina 63, Penn State 56
Men's soccer: Maryland 2, Penn State 1 NCAA Tournament Second Round
Wrestling: Penn State 18, Rutgers 7
Wrestling: Penn State 36, Harvard 6
Wrestling: Penn State 22, Edinboro 9
Today's schedule
Cross country at NCAA Championships, Terre Haute, Ind., noon (more)
Monday, November 23, 2009
A pair of Nittany Lion standouts who were instrumental in Penn State's 42-14 win at Michigan State on Saturday have been honored by the Big Ten Conference. Junior linebacker Navorro Bowman (District Heights, Md.) was selected Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for the second consecutive week and senior quarterback Daryll Clark (Youngstown, Ohio) was selected the conference's Offensive Player of the Week for the third time this season. (more)
Friday, November 20, 2009
To help recognize November as Native American Heritage Month, Penn State Live posed a few questions to A. Gregg Roeber, professor of early modern history and religious studies at Penn State and co-director of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute. In 2008 Roeber edited the book "Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians and Catholics in Early North America," published by Penn State Press. It was inspired by an international conference the institute hosted on the occasion of the English translation and publication of the Diaries of David Ziesberger, one of the first Moravian German-speaking missionaries and ethnographic observers of the Lenape.
Roeber's book examines the diaries, letters and journals of early European missionaries settling in America who survived only because of the help of Native American groups. These writings are valuable resources for recovering information about the religions, cultures and political makeup of the "First Peoples." (more)
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday's results
Men's basketball: UNC-Wilmington 80, Penn State 69
Women's basketball: Penn State 77, Bucknell 62
Today's schedule
Men's basketball vs. Tulane at Charleston (S.C.) Classic, 12:30 p.m. (CSN Philadelphia/Cox Sports Southeast)
Swimming and diving vs. Virginia, 6 p.m.
Women's volleyball at Purdue, 7 p.m.
Saturday's schedule
Fencing hosts Garrett Open, 8:30 a.m.
Swimming and diving vs. Virginia, 11 a.m.
Football at Michigan State, 3:30 p.m. (ABC/ESPN)
Women's volleyball at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Sunday's schedule
Men's basketball vs. TBD at Charleston (S.C.) Classic, TBA
Fencing hosts Garrett Open, 8:30 a.m.
Wrestling vs. Rutgers at Binghamton, N.Y., Sprawl and Brawl Duals, 9:45 a.m.
Wrestling vs. Harvard at Binghamton, N.Y., Sprawl and Brawl Duals, 11:30 a.m.
Men's soccer vs. Maryland, NCAA Tournament, 1 p.m.
Women's basketball at South Carolina (SportsSouth), 3 p.m.
Wrestling vs. Edinboro at Binghamton, N.Y., Sprawl and Brawl Duals, 3 p.m. (more)
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thanksgiving is right around the corner. All the signs are there: the trees are bare, there's a chill in the air and grocery lists are as long as the crowded checkout lines in the food stores. Turkeys are flying off the shelves -- well, not literally -- frozen or fresh, that is. It's time to get out grandma's china. It's time for family, friends, too much turkey and afternoon naps.
So is it true that naps and turkey go together? It is commonly said that eating too much of it causes drowsiness due to the high levels of tryptophan found in the meat. However, according to Leah Devlin, division head of science and engineering and interim assistant dean of Academic Affairs at Penn State Abington, the "I-can't-do-the-dishes-because-I'm-too-tired" excuse is more myth than truth. (more)
