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Penn State Engineering Students Showcase Innovative Designs at Fall Capstone Event
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Penn State engineering students presented their semester-long capstone and cornerstone design projects Thursday afternoon at the Bryce Jordan Center, highlighting real-world solutions developed through the Learning Factory’s end-of-semester design showcase. The event capped 15 weeks of work by multidisciplinary student teams partnered with industry sponsors. The showcase featured hands-on prototypes, posters and video demonstrations from…
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Penn State Liberal Arts Building to Remain Closed Through Spring Semester After Structural Issue Caused Damage
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A new Penn State building that was closed in November because of a “localized structural issue” will remain out of service for the spring 2026 semester, the university wrote in an update on Wednesday. The Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building has been deemed “safe for limited reentry” but will remain closed while repair work continues,…
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Winter’s Glow Returns to Penn State Arboretum
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The Arboretum at Penn State will open its annual Winter’s Glow celebration on Saturday, Dec. 13, offering an evening of lights, music and family activities for the community from 4 to 8 p.m. The event includes indoor and outdoor attractions such as the “Handmade Holidays” crafting workshop, two wreath-making sessions, a pop-up print shop with…
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Penn State Faculty File for Union Election
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Penn State faculty will vote on unionizing in 2026 after filing a petition for an election with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board on Tuesday. The Penn State Faculty Alliance, the group of university teachers and researchers leading the organizing effort, said that they surpassed the necessary 30% authorization cards from among faculty at campuses throughout…
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Developer Presents Final Plan for New Student Housing Complex on Penn State Campus
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State College Planning Commission on Dec. 3 reviewed a final land development plan for a new student housing complex to be constructed on Penn State’s University Park campus in a public-private partnership. The university plans to ground-lease 16.8 acres along the southeast corner of Hastings Road and University Drive to Greystar Development for a four-building…
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Penn State School of Music Students Share the Spotlight in Holiday ‘Mosaic’ Concert
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The Penn State School of Music will hold its annual “Mosaic” concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, in Eisenhower Auditorium. The production highlights the school’s student talent in a one-of-a-kind showcase featuring a variety of seasonal songs. Tickets are $37 for adults and $14 for students if purchased online. Patrons can avoid the $4…
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Model Railroad Club: Not Your Grandpa’s Trains
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Members of Penn State’s Model Railroad Club grow career skills while they “play with trains.”
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Arboretum at Penn State Donates Record Produce Harvest to State College Food Bank
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Throughout this year’s growing season, volunteers and staff worked to plant, cultivate and harvest a wide variety of produce in the gardens of The Arboretum at Penn State. Those efforts wrapped up the week before Thanksgiving break with one final delivery of kale and a few other vegetables, resulting in a record-breaking 2,872 pounds of produce…
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Letters: Penn State Cancer Institute’s Failed Leadership; Stand Up for Community by Supporting WPSU
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Vindication tastes bitter when it comes at such a cost, but the record must now show: every alarm I sounded was justified. On Thursday, Nov. 20, Spotlight PA exposed a damning internal review of the Penn State Cancer Institute: chemotherapy overdoses, treatment delays that let cancers spread unchecked, incomplete patient records, and a toxic workplace…
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Penn State Asks Pa. Supreme Court to Stop the Release of Internal Trustee Documents
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The move is the latest in a yearslong dispute over records that the secretaries of state agencies use in their roles of Penn State trustees.
