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Lori Ginzberg isn't a big fan of biographies, and she hardly considered penning one herself, but the Penn State professor of history and women's studies decided the subject of her most recent book "Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life," is just too interesting to pass up. ...

The W-2 and 1040 forms are flying, so it must be income-tax-filing season. A Penn State Extension money-management educator says it's not too late to do something today that can make your 2009 tax filing less "taxing." Federal tax law permits people who fall within income guidelines to establish and fund an individual retirement account, or IRA, ...

Scientists have discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting. The research is the first study to use ancient musk ox DNA collected from across the animal's former geographic range to test for human impacts on musk ox populations. The ...

A Pulitzer Prize winning artist and cartoonist, Rube Goldberg was best known for his "invention" cartoons depicting overly complex devices that perform everyday tasks. In the words of Goldberg, his machines were "a symbol of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results." At Penn State's fifth annual "Rube Goldberg Machine ...

Blending biomass into the coal stream that feeds electricity-generation plants offers the opportunity to reduce harmful emissions and create a market for renewable fuel, according to a biomass-energy expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. And Pennsylvania power-plant operators have a big incentive for co-firing coal with biomass ...

Throughout the Big Ten Conference's illustrious history, many student-athletes have defined excellence: National Champions, All-Americans, Olympians. Their jerseys hang from the rafters. They are the standard against which all others are measured, the players who made the conference big. Beginning this fall, the Big Ten Network will celebrate ...

Sometimes huge initiatives start with modest efforts. That may be the case with the oilseed press being operated as a demonstration project by Farm Operations and Services in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. ...

The Penn State Nittany Lion wrestling team had a solid final day at the 2010 Big Ten Wrestling Championships and held onto fifth place for its best finish since 2007. Senior Cyler Sanderson (Heber City, Utah) finished off a perfect run at 157 with a win in the title bout to claim the 2010 Big Ten Championship and become Penn State's 20th Big Ten ...

The Nittany Lions basketball team will enter the 13th Big Ten Tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis as the 11th seed and will take on No. 6-seed Minnesota Thursday at approximately 7:30 p.m. in the final game of the first round. The game can be seen live on the Big Ten Network. The winner of that game will advance to face No. 3 seeded ...

The contributions of Penn State's Joe Paterno will be annually recognized by the Maxwell Football Club, which Friday (March 5) announced the creation of the Joseph V. Paterno Award. The announcement was made by the Maxwell Club hours before of its 73rd Annual Awards Banquet in Atlantic City, N.J. The Maxwell Club presents 13 high school, college ...

Penn State will join the U.S. Coast Guard's new Maritime Law Enforcement College Partnership Program to help educate and train maritime law enforcement personnel. Penn State, one of only 10 colleges and universities invited to participate in this program, will offer the Bachelor of Arts in Law and Society degree online through World Campus. The ...

Thomas Loughran, director of Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, and Reka Albert, professor of physics and biology, made a breakthrough by using network modeling to determine which proteins turn off the killer T-cells that cause a rare form of cancer....

As winter loses its grip on Pennsylvania, warmer days followed by cold nights signal the beginning of maple syrup season. When spring conditions are right, sap in sugar maple trees begins to flow, and sugars made with last summer's sun move from their storage sites into the tree's trunk, according to Bob Hansen, Penn State Cooperative Extension ...

The sixth-seeded Penn State Lady Lions (17-12, 8-10) found their defensive and transition games on the way to a 63-52 victory over No. 11 seed Minnesota (13-17, 6-12) in the Big Ten Tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse Thursday afternoon. The Lady Lions, who won a Big Ten Tournament game for the first time since the 2006-07 season, will now face No. 3 ...

Back in the late 1980s, Penn Stater Magazine Editor Tina Hay was one of the hosts of the Folk Show on WPSU-FM, Penn State's public radio station, and Bela Fleck was pushing the boundaries of bluegrass music as the banjo player for the decidedly niche group New Grass Revival. She played a lot of Fleck's music on the show, but doubted that most ...

University Health Services (UHS) has seen several confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza within the past two weeks. It is clear that H1N1 still is present on the University Park campus. Seasonal flu typically increases at this time of year as well....

"There's promise for a cure in the future," said Judith Creuz, a clinical audiologist at Penn State, "but it's not there yet." Researchers are focusing on ways to generate new hair cells within the inner ear to restore the most common cause of hearing loss. Until a cure exists, Creuz recommended using ear protection where appropriate....

Penn State President Graham B. Spanier, along with the leaders of Pennsylvania's other state-related universities, appeared before the state Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday (March 3) to make the case for funding for the 2010-11 fiscal year. Among the topics discussed were how the nature of the state-related universities would change if ...

The Nittany Lion basketball team will play its final home game of the season on Saturday, March 6 when it takes on No. 6-ranked Purdue and it will invite all Penn State students to join in the fun for free. The 2:30 p.m. tipoff on the Big Ten Network comes at the beginning of Spring Break week for the University Park Campus and the game was not ...

A rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 is yielding a treasure trove of essential information about the age and evolutionary origins of the species. A paper published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at Penn State, the University at Buffalo, the University of Oslo and ...