Media Highlights

Media Highlights

  • Sea change: Getting a grip on climate change
    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.

  • Why online students should bother with orientation
    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.

  • Origami finds legitimacy in science, not Congress
    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.

  • How MOOCs are disrupting education
    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.

  • Penn State Students Nab First Place
    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.

  • 'Water Blues' film kicks off community discussion
    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.

  • An Engineer's Next Task at Penn State
    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.

  • Can MOOCs and Universities Co-Exist?
    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.

  • DNA from 12,000-year-old skeleton: First Americans?
    5/15/14

    Co-author Douglas Kennett, environmental archaeologist, and his team studied teeth of newly discovered skeleton "Naia" to help determine her age and genetic connections.

  • How to laugh at climate change
    5/16/14

    Penn State psychologist Janet Swim, who studies climate change communication, says reform solutions at the Goldilocks scale — viable and credible — have the best chance.

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