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  • A leader remembered

    John Waldhausen, pioneer in medicine and founding chair of the Department of Surgery at Penn State Hershey, has died at age 82.

  • State sales-tax data suggest that business districts in counties with significant Marcellus Shale development, like this one in Wellsboro, Tioga County, are benefitting from the natural-gas boom.

    Tax revenues up in Marcellus Shale counties

    Natural-gas development appears to be having a positive effect on the local collection of state taxes in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region, researchers say.

  • Strong communications

    Penn State's College of Communications has won its first-ever national championship in the Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program.