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  • Professor Carol Reardon standing on a Gettysburg battlefield near a cannon.

    Voices of Gettysburg

    As the 150th anniversary nears, historian Carol Reardon sheds new light on the soldiers, many of them Penn Staters, who fought and fell during one of the bloodiest and most complex battles of the Civil War.

  • Student Kara Morgan examines a 3-D printed model of the Lunar Lion.

    The 3-D Printing Revolution

    If you can think it, you can make it. Penn Staters, like student Kara Morgan, are immersed in a technology that many are calling the second Industrial Revolution.

  • 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.

Sam Sennott

Graduate student's proposal for Google Glass is accepted by Google

A doctoral candidate in Penn State’s College of Education is working to make a new technology into a tool to assist people with disabilities. Sam Sennott applied to the recent Google Glass project, which was offering Google’s hands-free, wearable computer to researchers and consumers as a part of the company’s research and development.