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  • Two student THON dancers play with a THON child.

    It Starts Tonight!

    For 46 hours, more than 700 students will dance "For the Kids." But first, an army of volunteers must set the stage for the big event in Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center. Get ready for #THON 2016!

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  • Performing Arts for Social Change (PASC) founder Cynthia Henderson facilitates a workshop with a group of people seated in a circle in Cameroon.

    To Stage a Change

    From a young age, Penn State theater alumna Cynthia Henderson has wanted to save the world. Today, she's doing her part—through the performing arts.

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  • Ismaila Dabo, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State looks at his reflection in a computer monitor next to a colorful computer-generated image.

    Powerful Materials

    Energy lives at the root of almost everything we do, but harnessing that energy is still an area ripe for research. Ismaila Dabo, a computational materials scientist, uses simulations to help design and improve the materials that power our world.

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  • Penn State baseball player in Cuba

    First Pitch

    A Penn State Baseball trip to Cuba combined sport and culture as the team competed against some of the country's top professional baseball clubs.

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  • Tess Kutasz, a doctoral student conducting research in Sweden on a Fulbright scholarship, stands in front of the many books of the central public library in Stockholm.

    Stockholm Stacks

    While graduate student Tess Kutasz spends much of her time in the archives, this Fulbright award recipient is also exploring the culture and environment of her host country, Sweden.

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Raquel "Rocky" Rodriguez on campus
Academics

Raquel 'Rocky' Rodriguez has plans beyond soccer

2/12/16

While known most for her success on the soccer field, lesser known is Raquel "Rocky" Rodriguez’s plan to build a life apart from soccer, a plan she began developing at Penn State. Her first step was choosing Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management as her major, with plans to ultimately have a career in sports administration.

Chad Hanna
Research

Penn State researcher part of team proving last Einstein theory

2/11/16

Penn Stater Chad Hanna saw a decade of his work come to fruition Thursday (Feb. 11) when the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration, in conjunction with the National Science Foundation, announced the discovery of gravitational waves. Hanna’s work focuses on detecting gravitational waves created when two binary neutron stars or black holes circle each other, getting closer and closer until they collide and merge. LIGO scientists announced Thursday that they have detected those waves for the first time, proving the final portion of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

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