Weekly Wrap: Benefits enrollment; Deans step down; Astronomy discovery

A look back at the top stories for the week of Oct. 29

Lonnie G. Bunch III, historian, educator and founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), offered a presentation entitled 'A People's Journey, A Nation's Story' Nov. 1 in the Freeman Auditorium at Penn State's  HUB-Robeson Center. Established in 2003, the NMAAHC is part of the Smithsonian Institution and houses a collection that includes more than 36,000 artifacts. Credit: Patrick Mansell / Penn State. Creative Commons

A look back at the top stories from across Penn State:

BENEFITS OPEN ENROLLMENT: The 2018 Benefits Open Enrollment period has started for University employees and runs through Nov. 17.

DEANS DEPARTURES: The deans for the colleges of the Liberal Arts and for Health and Human Development will step down at the end of the spring semester.

'SUNSCREEN SNOW': Penn State astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a blistering-hot giant planet outside our solar system where the atmosphere "snows" titanium dioxide — the active ingredient in sunscreen. This discovery, and other observations made by the team, provide insight into the complexity of weather and atmospheric composition on exoplanets, and may someday be useful for gauging the habitability of Earth-sized planets.

CANCER PROGRAM: The University has launched a new graduate program dedicated to cancer biology.

FOSTER HELP: A Penn State Hazleton student organized a bag drive for a local foster care home after learning that foster care children were using garbage bags to transport their belongings.

HEMINGWAY: The fourth volume of "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway" will be available on Nov. 3.

Last Updated November 2, 2017