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  • Female faculty member and female student examining honey bees in the lab.

    Rescuing Honey Bee Hives

    VIDEO: Honey bee colonies are collapsing in record numbers, and Penn State entomologists are leading the pack of researchers scrambling to figure out why.

  • Two women shake hands

    Partners Against Disease

    Penn State researchers unite with the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology to study the dynamics of malaria and sleeping sickness in Tanzania.

  • Michael Paul smiles at the camera in front of an image of the moon.

    Lunar Lion Superstars

    Space systems engineer Michael Paul leads a team of faculty and students in a Google-sponsored race to land the first spacecraft on the moon in thirty-five years.

  • Sandhurst Trophy Presentation

    Leadership in Action

    Penn State Army ROTC cadets prove their mettle and make a historic showing at the prestigious Sandhurst Military Stakes Competition.

  • Catherine Janisko, Penn State Broadcast Journalism student, sits smiling in front of television monitors in a broadcast control room.

    Making a Difference

    VIDEO: See highlights of Penn Staters who are leading, succeeding, and changing the world, like College of Communications student Catherine Janisko, one of our many extraordinary students.

Montage-Penn State and Gettysburg Illustration

Penn State and Gettysburg during the Civil War

6/17/13

Two battles raged in Pennsylvania in 1863. One would serve as a defining moment in the Civil War, a conflict that ended slavery and changed the identity of the United States. Another battle, not far from the bloody fields and smoke-veiled ridges of Gettysburg, would redefine the identity of a struggling university and reveal the promise of higher education to a new generation of Americans. In both battles, Penn Staters paid the ultimate price.