In the News
March 27, 2003

Trustees approve 2003-04
room and board rates
The Board of Trustees on March 21 approved a modest increase to the University's room and board rates for the 2003-2004 academic year. The new rates are effective for the 2003 fall semester at all of Penn State's residential campuses.

University's thermometers
are going green
Thermometers throughout the University have taken on a new -- and environmentally friendly -- look. In an intensive pollution-prevention and health-hazard reduction project, the Department of Environmental Protection and Health (EHS) is removing mercury thermometers and replacing them with environmentally safe equivalents that eliminate the risk of potentially dangerous mercury release.

University works to
combat cyber crime
While the Internet has grown globally, it also has grown increasingly insecure. According to Kathleen Kimball, director of Security Operations and Services (SOS), NIMDA and attacks like it have brought attention to the many cyber vulnerabilities that exist and have alerted national leaders that protection for businesses, institutions and organizations throughout the country is critical.

Annual Match Day arrives for
students in College of Medicine
After several years of medical school, the future now comes down to the opening of a single letter for medical students in Penn State's College of Medicine at Hershey and at other institutions across the country.

Students gather to watch
as war with Iraq intensifies
As the massive air assault against Iraq got under way Friday, March 21, Penn State students gathered around the various televisions at the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus to follow the breaking news.

WPSX becomes nation's 100th
digital public television station
Penn State Public Broadcasting is the 100th public television station to convert to digital transmission, according to John Lawson, president and chief executive officer of the Association of Public Television Stations.

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