WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * "TOO LATE": Pennsylvania's Republican Congressmen Allow Health Care Costs to Skyrocket * The Executive Director of Pennsylvania's insurance exchange is sounding the alarm about Republicans in Congress allowing ACA tax credits to expire - warning that it may be too late to protect Pennsylvanians " from explosive sticker shock." Executive Director Devon Trolley warns in POLITICO :   more

BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, Oct. 16 -- Bryn Mawr College posted the following news: * * * Cities' Min Kyung Lee Joins Boards for Two Organizations * Associate Professor of Growth and Structure of Cities Min Kyung Lee recently joined the boards of two organizations. Lee will serve a three-year term on the editorial board of Architectural Histories, an international, blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the European Architectural History Network. She will be coordinating the AI task force t  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Oct. 17 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Clark Scholars Program receives additional $11M investment from Clark Foundation * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Five years ago, the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation established the A. James Clark Scholars Program at Penn State, a comprehensive scholarship and co-curricular support program for exceptional Penn State engineering undergraduates who demonstrate financial need along with a desi  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Oct. 16 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Graduate assistants to vote in unionization election at Penn State * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Graduate assistants across multiple Penn State campuses will soon vote in a unionization election, following an order issued by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB). "The University deeply values the contributions of our graduate students," said Penn State Executive Vice President and P  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 18 -- La Roche University issued the following news release: * * * La Roche University Signs MOU with Avantika University, Strengthening Global Academic and Innovation Ties La Roche University has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Avantika University in Ujjain, India--marking an important step forward in the University's mission to foster international collaboration and academic innovation. The agreement was formally signed by Dr. Christina  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Oct. 17 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Penn State to host town hall on research enterprise, federal funding landscape * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State will host a town hall on Friday, Nov. 3, at 1 p.m. to share updates on the University's research enterprise and the evolving federal funding landscape. The event will take place in 603 Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub and will be livestreamed for the Penn State community. It wi  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 18 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * Street lighting and public safety Criminology researchers Aaron Chalfin and John MacDonald, and data scientist Brian Wade of Penn's Crime and Justice Policy Lab, evaluate the effect of improved street lighting on crime rates. * It's an almost universally accepted truth that walking in well-lit areas is safer. But Aaron Chalfin, associate professor of criminology  more