PSU Newswire

State College police have had reports of seven residential burglaries between Jan. 23 and Feb. 3. In every reported burglary over this 11-day period, the home or apartment was entered through an unlocked door. Once inside, the actor(s) are stealing primarily laptops, but also have taken a television, iPods and wallets. The burglaries have occurred ...

Bill O'Brien, hired on Jan. 6 as head coach of Penn State's football program, will coach in his final game as the New England Patriots' offensive coordinator on Sunday, Feb. 5, when the Patriots take on the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. "Penn State Football Story" caught up with players and O'Brien's colleagues on the ...

A preference for fatty foods has a genetic basis, according to researchers, who discovered that people with certain forms of the CD36 gene may like high-fat foods more than those who have other forms of this gene. The results help explain why some people struggle when placed on a low-fat diet and may one day assist people in selecting diets that ...

When the New England Patriots and New York Giants clash in Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday (Feb. 5) in Indianapolis, Penn State again will be well-represented on the field and the sidelines. Several former Penn State players and staff with ties to the Nittany Lion football program will be involved in the National Football League's Championship game, ...

The U.S. may have its first black president and the Fortune 500 its first black female chief executive, but African American CEOs account for a mere one percent of the chiefs of those 500 largest companies. Andrew Carton, assistant professor of management and organization at Penn State Smeal College of Business, and Ashleigh Shelby Rosette of ...

Four Penn State seniors are completing a week-long internship for the NFL at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis. This marks the second year in a row Penn State students have had the opportunity to work in that role. This year's students -- Adam Brown, a marketing major from Franklin Lakes, N.J.; Ellen McNair, a broadcast journalism major from ...

ArcelorMittal Steelton and the United Steelworkers Local 1688, in partnership with Penn State Harrisburg and Penn State York, recently launched Steelworker for the Future in Central Pennsylvania. Steelworker for the Future is an associate degree program, along with advanced industrial credit certificates, designed to prepare students for ...

Penn State's open budget website, at http://www.budget.psu.edu/ online, includes more than 2,500 online pages of information covering the University's $4.1 billion annual budget. To make the University's complex budget information easier to navigate and content easier to understand, the University Budget Office has redesigned its website and ...

Growing up, Lori Verderame took an interest in the antiques her parents collected, often hunting for them with her dad at flea markets and yard sales. Known simply as "Dr. Lori" to many, Verderame is a Penn State graduate (she holds a Ph.D. in art history, Class of '96) who will join the cast of the hit reality TV show "Auction Kings" on the ...

"Real-Time Care Experience Feedback Using QR Codes," a Penn State project that allows hospital patients to inform hospital personnel of their experiences -- good or bad -- in real time, is the winner of the 2012 REACH Developer Challenge, sponsored by AcademyHealth and part of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. QR codes are rectangular bar codes, ...

One of the world's top DJs, Sebastian Ingrosso, will be making a special appearance with Alesso at Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center on Thursday, Feb. 23. Ingrosso is best known for his work in the super group Swedish House Mafia and has produced "Leave the World Behind," "One," "Miami 2 Ibiza" and most recently "Save the World." Ingrosso's solo ...

The skeletal structure of the foot and ankle differs significantly between human sprinters and nonsprinters, according to Penn State researchers. Their findings not only help explain why some people are faster runners than others, but also may be useful in helping people who have difficulty walking, such as older adults and children with cerebral ...

Penn State's home on the Web is changing. On Feb. 2, regular visitors to Penn State's website at http://www.psu.edu may have noticed that a few items have been added and rearranged. While modest, the changes represent the first visible steps toward a complete reinvention of the University's home on the Web. Visitors will continue to see ...

A new student media website, psucommedia.com, features the best student work from the College of Communications. The site was built to provide a public platform for the professional-quality content produced by students in the College of Communications. "Our students have exceeded all expectations with their coverage of major events like the ...

Heart disease is still the No. 1 killer of women, but 80 percent of heart disease is preventable. If a woman can keep her risks for cardiac disease low before the age of 50, then there is a good chance she can avoid heart disease. Lifestyle changes to help prevent heart disease are worthwhile at any age, but are certainly more beneficial if ...

Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists. Poor schools even influence how parental education protects kids from becoming overweight. "It was once thought that family income was the main factor when we talk about the research on adolescent ...

This week's Medical Minute explores the ways in which writing can help individuals to improve a number of emotional and even physical illnesses....

"Sesame Street Live," a larger-than-life, musical touring stage production featuring Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie, and more, will visit the Bryce Jordan Center at 7 p.m. March 13 at at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. on March 14. Each performance features 90 minutes of singing, dancing and audience participation, including a 15-minute ...

People who read news on the Web tend to trust the gate even if there is no gatekeeper, according to Penn State researchers. When readers access a story from a credible news source they trust through an online portal, they also tend to trust the portal, said S. Shyam Sundar, Distinguished Professor of Communications and co-director of the Media ...

Higher than normal levels of lead in the blood may signal a risk two times higher than average of developing renal cell carcinoma in smokers, according to medical researchers. "Past studies (in cadavers) have shown that, compared with kidneys from individuals without cancer, kidneys from individuals with cancer have higher lead levels," said Emily ...