Pennsylvania State University News

Thanks to a conspiracy of generous cloud cover and persistently wet soil, this June will end up being the coolest in 12 years.

The Kentucky Board of Education has named four out of state applicants as finalists for commissioner of education.

Andre McGee, left, and Jason Rivers show the students statistics of Black male unemployment rates and educational attainment levels.

Penn State University wants the Obama administration to stop Gov. Ed Rendell from reclassifying it and three other state-related universities as non-public and ineligible for $42 million in federal stimulus aid.

Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University, College of Communications, and Dickinson College of Law, has published "Invoking and Avoiding the First Amendment: How Internet Service Providers Leverage Their Status as Both Content Creators and Neutral Conduits." Here is the abstract.

Speculations on astronomy, astrophysics, news I find interesting, theoretical issues, science and science policy.

UPI had a brief article on CiteSeerX, the article and citation search engine, on June 2 so I thought I'd mosey over and see how it was doing.

Government-backed companies once brought blackouts to Eastern Europe and produced Russia's clunky Lada car.

At first blush, Penn State - tucked away in the mountains hours from a major city - may not seem a likely locale for a worldly program.

Courtesy of Marcellus Shale Committee of Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale is a geologic formation found about a mile below the ground.

WHEN President Obama meets today with Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, I hope he will demand an accounting on the fate of my brother, Professor Boris Weisfeiler.

The slumping economy has provoked retrenchment at some American art museums, but not in Doylestown.

After more than 120,000 years trapped beneath a block of ice in Greenland, a tiny microbe has awoken.

Fisk University has named M. Christopher Brown II as its next provost and executive vice president.

ToxSci Advance Access originally published online on April 9, 2009 Toxicological Sciences 2009 110 :204-211; doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfp077 Published by Oxford University Press 2009.

A tiny frozen microbe has awoken after being trapped under glacial ice in Greenland for more than 120,000 years, media reports said Tuesday.

A study suggests that napping could provide a number of health benefits to children when they reach ages 4-5. A developing child's daily nap could provide more health benefits than initially thought.

A novel bacterium that has been trapped more than three kilometres under glacial ice in Greenland for over 120 000 years, may hold clues as to what life forms might exist on other planets.

Kim Labno, master gardener coordinator, shows Wonnaya McFarland and Chyna Mitchell how their beans are growing atEmlen School in East Mount Airy.

Maternal nutrition and early foal nutrition could impact the development of the organs and systems that control energy metabolism later in life, suggest the authors of a recent research report.