Elissa Hill
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Bike Share Ready for Use at Penn State
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After Penn State officially announced its partnership Zagster Bike Share last week, the 85 bicycles scattered across the University Park campus are installed and ready to use.
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Penn State Board Of Trustees Committee on Compensation Schedules Special Meeting
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The Penn State Board of Trustees Committee on Compensation will hold another special meeting this week — its second since the last full Board of Trustees meeting in July.
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Jill Biden Headlines Penn State Distinguished Speaker Series
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Penn State’s Student Programming Association on Tuesday announced its lineup for the 2017-2018 Distinguished Speaker Series, including Michael Sam, Jill Biden, a diversity panel including Noor Tagouri, Sonia Nazario, and Brian Mosteller, and W. Kamau Bell.
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Students Developing Early Stages Of ‘Penn State Museum’ Concept
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With a new Penn State History course being offered for the first time and a Nittany Valley Society documentary about the history of The Phyrst in the works, interest in the history of Penn State and the local area has spiked recently. And now a few Penn State student leaders are working on concepts for…
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LION Bash Aims To Connect Students, State College Community
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LION Bash will feature almost 100 engagement stations run by community members, local organizations, businesses, and campus organizations. Stations will give students and long-term residents a chance to learn more about the opportunities in the community around them.
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Trustees Discuss DePasquale’s Penn State Performance Audit
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The Board of Trustees Committee on Governance and Long-Range Planning met Thursday at Penn State Harrisburg, focusing discussion on the performance audit of Penn State released last month.
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UPUA Urges Wolf to Appoint Student Trustee
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Penn State’s University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) this week released a letter from student body President Katie Jordan to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, urging him to keep with tradition and appoint a student to the university’s Board of Trustees.
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McLanahan’s Applies for License to Sell Beer and Wine
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McLanahan’s Downtown Market hopes to soon sell wine and beer. A notice of application to sell alcoholic beverages is posted in the window of the store and deli at 116 S. Allen St.
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House Corporation Closes Tau Kappa Epsilon House for 2017-18 After ‘Many Ongoing Problems’
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Citing “many ongoing problems experienced during the past school year,” Penn State fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon’s Pi Chapter House Corporation announced the fraternity house will be closed for the duration of the 2017-2018 school year. Fraternity members who were slated to live in the house were advised to make other housing arrangements. The announcement was…
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Penn State Doctoral Student Named to NASA’s 2017 Astronaut Class
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Penn State doctoral student Zena Cardman was named to NASA’s 2017 astronaut class onWednesday during a ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Of 18,000 applicants, 12 men and women were accepted into the program.