Media Highlights
Media Highlights
- 5/22/14
Three Penn State researchers measured people’s cortisol, a stress marker, while they were at work and at home and found it higher at home, supposedly a place of refuge.
- 5/20/14
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute will spend $7.75 million over five years to support a partnership including Penn State to promote minority Ph.Ds in STEM fields.
- 5/18/14
If we don’t swallow a dose of reality soon, the prognosis is grim. “Each degree of warming costs more than the previous one,” notes Penn State glaciologist Richard Alley.
- 5/13/14
Penn State's World Campus offers a free eight-week-long course for prospective students curious about whether they are prepared for online learning.
- 5/19/14
A Penn State study is examining ways that electric, thermal and magnetic fields can be used to transform flat material into complex 3-D shapes.
- 5/19/14
Kathryn Jablokow, Penn State Great Valley associate professor, says MOOCs can yield valuable information about how students learn and may change the role of the teacher.
- 5/14/14
A team of Penn State students nabbed first place at the inaugural U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Collegiate Wind Competition May 5 to 7.
- 5/14/14
Here in Whatcom County it often seems like we're drowning in water. Nearly a yard of rain falls on us annually. We're surrounded by lakes, streams, rivers and salt water.
- 5/12/14
Pennsylvania State University has 16,000 students enrolled in its online World Campus. In the next decade, the university wants that number to rise to 45,000.
- 5/11/14
We asked three experts to weigh in on the role MOOCs could play in the future of higher education, and how MOOCs might change the way we think about college.