UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Capital Day offers all Penn Staters the chance to advocate for fair state funding UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A total of 150 students from across the commonwealth are preparing to head to Harrisburg to convey Penn State's positive impact to elected officials during Advocate Penn State's annual Capital Day on April 9. Capital Day offers students from University Park and the Commonwealth Camp  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Long-term impact of test-optional admissions focus of grant UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative (CAF Co-Lab), a multi-institutional research initiative based at Penn State, the University of Delaware and the University of Maryland, College Park, has received a $560,000 grant from the Gates Foundation to study the long-term effects of test-optional admissio  more

WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania, March 26 -- Wilkes University issued the following news release: * * * Professor Henderson "Jim" Cleaves to Deliver Pownall Lecture in Chemistry at Wilkes University on April 9 Henderson "Jim" Cleaves, professor and chair of the chemistry department at Howard University in Washington, D.C., will deliver the 2025 Henry J. and Linda C. Pownall Lecture in Chemistry at Wilkes University at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9, in Stark Learning Center 105. The lecture, "Und  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Q&A: How to take a local business to global markets UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Entering international markets can help a successful business grow even more. But when is the right time, and what are the steps? Terrence Guay, clinical professor of international business and director of the Center for Global Business Studies at Penn State, shared in the following Q&A steps and resources, incl  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Q&A: What is the consumer price index? An economist explains UNIVERSTY PARK, Pa. -- The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the latest inflation report, based on the U.S. Department of Labor's consumer price index (CPI), on March 12. The monthly report tells consumers how much more expensive goods and services are, month-to-month and year-to-year. Kenneth Louie, associate profe  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Translator for biomedical research aims to speed up patient care UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A team led by researchers at Penn State is working to accelerate drug discovery, with the potential to treat rare diseases, by improving the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Biomedical Data Translator (Translator) -- a network of computer interfaces that take biomedical research questions and pro  more