The U.S. Navy has honored Michael P. Murphy, a Penn State alumnus and Naval lieutenant who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroic actions in Afghanistan in 2005, with the naming of its newest missile destroyer. Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter announced at a ceremony on May 7 in Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y., that the new Arleigh ( read more)

Roughly 55 participants hit the road for the 13th annual Road Scholars Tour on Monday. The tour, held May 12-14 this year, offers new and newly tenured Penn State faculty several dynamic opportunities to learn about the University and Pennsylvania as they travel to several Penn State campuses and tour businesses and popular historic sites. This ( read more)

Only a small group of elite property fund managers are able to consistently lead their funds to gains greater than the market, according to new research co-authored by a professor at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. In a report for the Investment Property Forum, Shaun Bond, Smeal visiting associate professor of real estate, and consultant ( read more)

College graduates don't always find a job in their majors. They're even more hard-pressed to find work in a field that combines both their major and minor fields of study. Penn State class of 2008 graduate Erik Davidson came up with a solution to that problem: he's his own boss. The Monroe, Conn., native found a way to enter the professional world ( read more)

Penn State has once again made the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) list of the top college and university Green Power Partners. The University is being recognized for its voluntary purchase of 83,600 megawatt-hours (MWh) of green power. Among the 18 conference champions, Penn State placed third. ( read more)

Spence Ford has been head of dance for Penn State's musical theatre program since its inception in 1994. She previously had a successful career on Broadway as a dancer/singer/actress in such shows as La Cage Aux Folles, Peter Pan and King of Hearts. While at Penn State, she has choreographed and directed a number of main-stage musicals, in ( read more)

It's not hard to find members of STATERs -- a new campus-recognized student recycling organization -- in a crowd of thousands who are tailgating at a Penn State football home game. Wearing matching fluorescent green shirts and carrying big blue bags with the universal recycling symbol around a Nittany Lion's head, STATERs are already well known in ( read more)

With incomes dropping, lay-offs rising and home foreclosures everywhere signaling a struggling economy, an extension consumer finance specialist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences offers tips for dealing with financial difficulty. "Aside from the newspaper headlines, the comments I hear from consumers are about the increased cost of ( read more)

A forthcoming company that will manufacture, market, and distribute a synthetic wallboard alternative to drywall has won the inaugural Penn State IdeaPitch competition, sponsored by Ben Franklin Technology Partners and the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Smeal College of Business. MG Walls LLC founder Matthew ( read more)