The College of Education’s Staff Advisory Council is assisting the college’s alumni currently working as teachers with obtaining classroom supplies.

Twelve Penn State faculty members received Fulbright Scholar Awards for the 2024-25 academic year, according to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. An additional four faculty members have been named Fulbright Specialist Award recipients.  

As part of our regular "We Are!" feature, we recognize 15 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.   

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Nov. 1 to officially dedicate the newest space in the Penn State College of Education — the Krause Pedagogical Innovation Laboratory.

Transnet has said essential equipment, including rubber-tyred gantries and ship-to-shore cranes, will only arrive by the next peak fruit export season at the Cape Town Port.

Shares of Bidcorp, the food services giant founded by Brian Joffe, jumped almost 5% on Tuesday after it reported a record revenue performance for the four months to end October, including an "excellent" result from SA.

ICTSI said it will use all legal channels to make sure that a Maersk subsidiary, "is not successful in holding the Durban port, and indeed the South African economy hostage to their interests".

An application to suspend development of the solar farm has been rejected, but another seeking more permanent relief is yet to be decided on.

One of the giants of the literacy world is grappling with the recent push for the "science of reading"—and responding to critics who say her early reading program doesn't align to evidence-based practice.

Kyle Scott (UK) joined OM Europe’s Transit Challenge Team at Transform 2010 and spent the next 6 months travelling from Italy through Southern Europe to the Balkans. After returning home for Christmas, he flew to Germany for the GO conference in January 2011, from where he joined the OM team in France. We were curious to know more…

A performing arts outreach team shares Christ with crowds gathered to watch their street performances every evening during the Avignon Festival.

God prompts a worker to take along a Farsi Bible during his day manning the literature stand so that a Farsi-speaking man can find the Truth.

A recent poll shows "rationalistic" French society still highly bound to superstition.

Un sondage récent montre que la superstition est bien présente dans la société française, qui se veut pourtant si rationaliste.

Two guys with the Transit Challenge team step out in faith to share the gospel in an unfamiliar city.

A team member has a change of heart during the Transform 2013 outreach to prostitutes in Lyon.

“I was not happy when the Lord told me to go to France,” recalls one American OM worker, who soon discovered Europe’s great spiritual needs.

David’s role on the Riverboat is to act as a homeless man. In reality, he is acting out a familiar life he used to lead.

Transform mission conference one year, outreach team in France the following year, the sisters from Mexico are eager to share the love of Christ, realising the audience was different from what they expected.

In this week's episode of SA Money Report we examine how racial discrimination impacts the property market and interrupts economic growth.

This week, SA Money Report journeys in the heart of war, and comes back with a tale about Naspers' exposure in Russia, and its ties to VKontakte, whose 38-year-old CEO Vladimir Kiriyenko was sanctioned by the US.

As time passes for those devastated by fire in a Bangladesh slum, OM helps with essential support and love in variety of ways.

Young people in Bangladesh learn to combine sport with their love for God, and one programme participant explains his enthusiasm for the experience.

The fifth daughter of a poor family, one girl thought she would never get an education. But thanks to OM’s new school, she has hope.

One Bangladeshi woman doesn’t believe her future can change until she participates in an OM tailoring class, gaining skills and a relationship with Jesus.

Despite having a degree, a young woman in Bangladesh finds it impossible to get a job until she completes an OM computer course.

As the OM sports team in Bangladesh rest after the recent R4TW running and rickshaw races, they look back on last year's event.

A Bangladeshi girl experiences a series of terrible losses, yet through local care she learns a skill that brings hope for the future.

Winning a rickshaw in a race sponsored by the OM sports ministry team in Bangladesh changes Anwar's life and his family's life.

OM and partners work to bring hope to the Rohingya refugees, even with monsoon rains threatening temporary housing in the camps.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre hosted a workshop in September that allowed students to use their knowledge about a geographic information system to tackle a real-world problem in impoverished communities in Brazil: How can packages be delivered to people who live in areas without official addresses?  

Loneliness and cognitive performance were related in the short term for older adults, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit turned aside a challenge to California's history and social science content standards and curriculum framework.

Small outreach teams will share the life-changing message of the gospel with hundreds of women in brothels and on the street this Easter.

Although Debora's journey to get to House of Joy was one filled with valley after valley, she never lost hope and her friend Anita never stopped praying.

Prayer and fasting have been part of the Algerian Church's lifestyle since its beginning. Unity among believers has contributed to ongoing spiritual strength amidst persecution.

Lima, Peru :: A Logos Hope team joins an inspirational pastor ministering to the children of criminals.

Jose, an Argentinian worker serving in Southeast Asia, tells of how he entered overseas service and what he has seen God do through his not-so-typical ministry.

Rosario, Argentina :: Church members from a vulnerable community learn about human trafficking and experience care and respect.

Instead of cultivating a generation of critical thinkers, we have grown a generation of disaffected test-takers and passive learners, writes Superintendent Michael Matsuda.

Spending more on public education—and less on law enforcement—is gaining traction as the Black Lives Matter movement fuels broader calls for racial justice and police reform.

The consequences of reopening schools in Denmark, Israel, and South Korea offer valuable insights for U.S. schools.

A panel of experts—including a national teacher's union president and an official from the Department of Education—discussed how to make teaching a more attractive profession.

In a survey of educators in an urban Midwest district, 4 in 5 said the witnessed other staff doing things that were morally wrong, while almost half said they themselves had acted in a way that betrayed their values.

In a recent video message, transgender teachers urge school leaders to make schools more welcoming by examining their own biases and implementing inclusive policies.

The Penn State Board of Trustees Committee on Finance and Investment advanced a proposal for the construction of an Academic Learning Center at Penn State Harrisburg.

The Penn State Board of Trustees Committee on Finance and Investment voted on Nov. 7 to move forward with a recommendation to the full board to select a developer to build a 1,500-bed affordable housing development to meet the needs of students attending the University Park campus. 

The Penn State School of Music will present three choir concerts on Sunday, Nov. 17, in the Recital Hall on the University Park campus. Featuring world premieres, folk traditions and themes of community and aspiration, these concerts will make for a lovely Sunday afternoon of music for audiences of all ages. 

The Penn State College of IST Distinguished Lecture Series will host Wenke Lee from Georgia Tech at noon on Nov. 18 in E202 Westgate Building at University Park.

The Penn State DuBois Office of Student Engagement will welcome students and members of the public to Hiller Auditorium on Tuesday, Nov. 12, when the Piscataway Nation Singers & Dancers visit campus.