Penn State Law Professor Shoba Wadhia is part of a panel on "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" discussing President Obama's recent announcement.

Penn State Berks professor Laurie Grobman, this year's winner among baccalaureate colleges, hit gold with a successful fusion of teaching, research and service.

A first-year Schreyer Honors College scholar in the Eberly College of Science, Neha Gupta has won the 2014 International Children's Peace Prize Award, given at The Hague.

Schreyer Scholar Neha Gupta, winner of the International Children’s Peace Prize Award, is founder of Empower Orphans, which helps orphaned and abandoned children.

Penn State is planning to auction off some of its patents online. It previously held a patent auction in April, believed to have been the first of its kind in the nation.

PlantVillage founders David Hughes and Marcel Salathé, Penn State epidemiologists, are using machine learning to do things like recognize an image of a weed.

Steve Zarit, professor of gerontology, says most Pennsylvania families don’t hear about needed, federally funded caregiver training and support programs in a timely way.

Study co-author Ping Li says the building of stronger connections over time between regions of the brain implies that bilingual brains are "more resistant to damage."