A record number of student startups from across Penn State campuses are getting ready for the 2020 Summer Founders program, a 13-week entrepreneurial bootcamp offering mentoring, networking, resources and $15,000 in funding to teams of Penn State student entrepreneurs from all campus locations and the World Campus.

A new process to harness multiple disease models for outbreak management has been developed by an international team of researchers. The team will immediately implement the process to help inform policy decisions for the COVID-19 outbreak.

Mark Alpert made a generous gift $200,000 in memory of his late wife, Claire, to establish the Mark E. and Claire L. Alpert Graduate Fellowship in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State.

On March 21, more than 120 student government representatives from 19 Penn State campuses virtually attended the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments’ first sustainability summit, featuring a poster expo of students showcasing their campus’ sustainability efforts, and a presentation on students’ potential impact on climate change by Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences.

In response to the growing coronavirus pandemic, orders from the state government and recommendations from global public health organizations, Penn State will hold its spring 2020 commencement ceremony via livestream on May 9. The virtual ceremony will recognize all Penn State undergraduate students and all graduate students in the Penn State Graduate School.

Given the continuing challenge and uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic and to protect the health of students, faculty and staff, Penn State has made the decision to extend virtual delivery of courses into the summer. Further, the University will adjust tuition for the summer sessions in light of the ongoing pandemic and the persistent fiscal strain it is causing across Pennsylvania and the country.

"Going into overseas ministry made me face reality", says 28-year old Vanilda Vaz from Brazil. She has been travelling through Latin America to tell as many people as possible about her work in South Asia.

OM Brazil challenges over 400 young people to be part of a generation taking the glory of God to all nations.

With millions of evangelicals with easy-going personalities, Brazil could become a game changer for the gospel.

Here are five takeaways on the teaching profession from the newly released 2017-18 National Teacher and Principal Survey.

This study examined the epidemiological characteristics and transmission patterns of 2135 pediatric patients with COVID-19 using a retrospective analytical approach.

The majority of pediatric hospitalization costs are associated with the room; improvement projects that address room costs could have the most financial impact.

Through propensity score analysis, we examine the effect of living in a segregated area on the development of neonatal IVH, stratified by maternal race.

Absa has relinquished the unenviable position as the country’s most expensive bank in Finweek’s annual bank charges study.

Lets hope it’s for the right reasons.

But often invested in for the wrong reasons.

The best returns per sector.

If used correctly with a plan in mind.

The National Youth Development Agency will request funding of more than R1bn from the government in the current financial year, its CEO Steven Ngubeni says.

Defender Sergio Ramos reckons Bilbao will be party central at UEFA EURO 2020.

States don't routinely collect information on districts' materials purchases. If they plan to use curriculum as a lever to improve student learning, they should, a new brief argues.

Economists and market experts may be trumpeting an economic and stock market recovery, but private investors and business owners are less convinced, a survey shows.

A Central Asian girl receives her first wheelchair.

Workers in Tajikistan long for the people of the country to replace superstition with trust in their Saviour.

An OM couple shares their lives, their faith and their professional skills with unreached people in Central Asia.

After years of living among a remote unreached people group, OMers see God draw the first local believers to Himself.

Chileans and foreigners perform a flash mob in the largest plaza in Santiago.

The participants of OM Chile’s nine-month Intensive Training were different people when they left than when they had arrived.

God supplies OM Chile with a new ministry base big enough for the team to live and work together in the same location.

God uses an OM Chile team member to encourage churches in the north of the country.

When asked to share his testimony, a participant of OM Chile's Adventure Team realises just how much God has worked in his life.

A girl from the Netherlands comes to OM Chile with passion to do evangelism. Instead, she gains a true appreciation for mobilisation.

Though much of the parent involvement research focuses on mothers, emerging studies show involved fathers can significantly improve their children's educational progress, too.

Partnering with parents can help students of any age who have trouble with social or mental health issues. But the devil is in the details, finds an analysis of more than 100 studies.

Two new international studies look at how parents judge how to invest in their children's education, and what happens to children's academic progress when one parent can't be involved.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Telecommunications has been authorized by the Cabinet to temporarily operate the country’s two cellular networks until a new tender is launched, Minister of Telecommunications Talal Hawat said Tuesday.

Attorney General Kathy Jennings has announced that her office’s Consumer Protection Unit has secured an agreement to recover $23,362 in debt relief for 5 former ITT Tech students in Delaware as part of a 43-state multistate settlement. The settlement is with Student CU Connect CUSO, LLC (“CUSO”), which offered deceptive loans to finance students’ tuition […]

Coalition of 21 attorneys general argues changes violate federal law and judicial precedent Attorney General Kathy Jennings joined Friday a group of 21 state attorneys general to challenge the Trump administration’s proposed changes to asylum standards. If implemented, these changes would allow the Executive branch to arbitrarily deny asylum claims to immigrants seeking haven from […]

Department of Justice hosts forum on re-entry after incarceration A 31-year-old Georgetown man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering his grandmother. Deputy Attorneys General Michael Tipton and Amanda Nyman secured the plea and sentence for George Bailey, III. In October 2018, Bailey choked 69-year-old Lorraine Bradley to death […]

Consumers won nearly 90% of arbitration cases in 2019 The Delaware Department of Insurance announced that its arbitration services program earned residents $839,466 in awards during 2019. Considering overlap from the previous year, 354 settlements occurred, and 144 cases were heard. Residents prevailed in about 90% of all cases. In total, the Department opened 502 […]

Dover, Del. (August 15, 2017) – The Award Winners XVII reception and award ceremony will be held at the Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover on Wednesday, August 30 from 5 – 7 p.m. The event will feature special performances by three of the eighteen 2017 Individual Artist Fellows. Attendees can experience the work of […]

Sept. 2, 2017 event moved from outdoors on the Dover Green to indoors at The Old State House.

Dover’s Veterans Day Parade – Saturday, Nov. 4th at 9:30 am – Downtown Dover (Loockerman St. to Federal St.) The City of Dover is hosting this year’s Veterans Day Parade along with the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs. Please join us Saturday morning on November 4th at 9:30am. For those who are interested in participating, please […]

Newport, Del.– Discovering Delaware went digital to celebrate National American Beer Day as the Delaware Tourism Office (Visit Delaware) unveiled Delaware on Tap, the new smartphone application version of the state’s popular Beer, Wine & Spirits Trail. The office showcased the app, which is available for free download in the App Store and from Google […]

The Delaware General Assembly, the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs and the Delaware Heritage Commission will unveil a new monument this weekend honoring Delawareans who served in World War I and those who supported them on the home front

The Delaware General Assembly, the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs and the Delaware Heritage Commission unveiled a new monument in honor of those Delawareans who served their state and the nation in World War I.

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the publication of his “Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer” and the role John Dickinson played in setting the stage for the American Revolution, the Delaware Department of State has launched a new website, de.gov/johndickinson, and a slate of special programming to take place over the coming months.

Statistics from the Division of Professional Regulation, which licenses controlled substance prescribers, show a 12-percent drop in opioid prescriptions statewide compared to the first quarter of 2017. The number of Delaware patients being treated with opioid medications has also declined by 8 percent over the same time period, the division reports.