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Big Hollow Road, off Fox Hollow Road, will be closed beginning Wednesday, Aug. 27, through Tuesday, Sept. 30, to install a new water line.Access to Big Hollow will be maintained at the upper part of the road by the Mushroom Test Facility. Signs will be posted. ...

Altoona-based general contractor Leonard S. Fiore Inc. has been named builder for phase 1 of the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens in the Arboretum at Penn State. Work is now under way and is scheduled for completion in spring 2009....

Until only 50 years ago, the month of August would have been a time of worry for parents. Polio epidemics closed pools and public facilities to reduce the spread of the virus, which is passed like a common cold virus. In 1952, there were 58,000 cases of polio in the United States. By 1957, a mass immunization campaign with the recently developed ...

The Penn State football team's season opener against Coastal Carolina highlights Penn State programming on the Big Ten Network this week (Aug. 25-31). The Nittany Lions take on the Chanticleers with a noon kickoff on Saturday (Aug. 31) at Beaver Stadium live on the Big Ten Network. The game will be replayed at 11 a.m. Sunday. The Big Ten Network ...

Welcome Week is a busy time for students new to Penn State University Park, but even University President Graham B. Spanier was kept on his toes by all the activity around campus. Spanier, making every effort to get to know as many new students as possible during their first days on campus, participated in a variety of activities aimed at building ...

The Penn State Football Express will be offering bus rides from a number of Centre County locations as well as Altoona to all home football games. The buses help fans save some gas, meet fellow fans and provides convenient rides to the game. The Centre Area Transportation Authority (CATA) will continue providing the Game Day Football Shuttle. This ...

Small teams of campus and community members will visit residential neighborhoods in downtown State College to welcome Penn State University Park campus students to the borough for the 2008-09 academic year, under a new initiative jointly sponsored by the borough and the University's Division of Student Affairs and Off-Campus Student Union. Living ...

Mary K. Howett, an internationally renowned virologist and former Penn State College of Medicine faculty member, died Wednesday, Aug. 20, at the age of 60 from complications related to leukemia....

Recycled office paper is now available to Penn State departments for less than the price of virgin paper, and some of the University's biggest paper users are already on board. In the past, many of Penn State General Stores' customers shied away from recycled brands due to high costs, but now it provides recycled paper at a significantly cheaper ...

Penn State women's soccer head coach Erica Walsh helped lead the U.S. to Olympic gold Thursday (Aug. 21) as an assistant on the U.S. women's soccer team. The U.S. defeated Brazil 1-0 in overtime to earn the Americans their third Olympic gold medal including 2004's 2-1 victory over Brazil. Walsh will make the long trip back to University Park via ...

Ag Progress Days, which wrapped up this year's run today (Aug. 21), will be highlighted on PCN, Comcast cable station channel 22, today and Friday. Penn State's annual agriculture expo featured demonstrations, exhibitions, vendors and livestock. The theme for the 2008 edition, held at the University's Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research ...

Penn State researchers will be part of an international team led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health to help evaluate new vaccines that will have the best chances of stopping the global outbreaks of infectious diseases. The project has received a $10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation....

Penn State will take center stage on the Big Ten Network during its primetime line-up on Thursday (Aug. 21). During the past two weeks, the Network's lead college football studio team of host Dave Revsine and analysts Gerry DiNardo and Howard Griffith have taken viewers to a practice at every Big Ten school for a special 90-minute edition of Big ...

Penn State College of Medicine has been awarded $1.3 million for five years from the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources, Special Education Program Award, to launch a collaborative research experience for high school students and their teachers. This ambitious program, led by Judith S. Bond, chair and ...

The Penn State Forum Speaker Series will kick off with Michael Franzese, motivational speaker, who will discuss "Life Choices, Life Stories," Friday, Sept. 12, in the ballroom of the Nittany Lion Inn, University Park. The event begins with lunch at 11:30 a.m., followed by Franzese's talk beginning at noon. The luncheons, modeled after the National ...

The proliferation of solar, wind and even tidal electric generation and the rapid emergence of hybrid electric automobiles demands flexible and reliable methods of high-capacity electrical storage. Now a team of Penn State materials scientists is developing ferroelectric polymer-based capacitors that can deliver power more rapidly and are much ...

It is out of sight and out of mind, but America's aging water system is in dire need of an overhaul. Penn State Public Broadcasting (WPSU-TV) is set to premiere a public television event on the looming crisis underneath peoples' feet and how communities are trying to meet this challenge. "Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure," ...

Penn State Transportation, along with Fullington Tours, is once again offering its weekend bus service to New York City. The Big Apple Express will be available every weekend starting on Thursday, Aug. 28, and will take passengers right into downtown New York City. The bus leaves State College at 2:30 p.m. and arrives at 7:15 p.m. Thursdays and ...

Many college students own a credit card, and most manage their debt responsibly. But the small percentage of college students who find themselves accumulating debt on a credit card are in for some troubling times, said Mary Beth Pinto, Penn State professor of marketing and research associate of the Center for Credit & Consumer Research (CCCR) at ...

For any student, going away to college and encountering new academic and social pressures can be a challenging experience. For some, those challenges, as well as pre-existing conditions, can result in issues that need the attention of qualified mental health experts. Dennis Heitzmann, director of the Center for Counseling and Psychological ...