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OFFSTATS - Official Statistics on the Web
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/

Search for statistics by country, region or topic.

The online magazine of scholarhip and creativity
http://www.rps.psu.edu/

Who we are:

Current staff
Publisher: Eva J. Pell, Vice President for Research
Editor: David Pacchioli
Associate Editor: Melissa Beattie-Moss
Multimedia Specialist/Web Editor: Emily Rowlands
Art Director: James Collins

We are members of the University Research Magazine Association (www.urma.org) and the National Association of Science Writers (www.nasw.org).

What we do:

Our mission is to sample the diversity and drama of Penn State’s $606-million-a-year research program as a public service to inform, entertain, and inspire the University community.

We do this in several ways:

Online:

Themes, Explorations, and Weekly Features

In June of 2005, we launched “Future Fuel? On the Road to a Hydrogen Economy” — an in-depth report with articles, movies, sound clips, animations, and graphics. Upcoming themes will focus on such wide-ranging topics as aging, homeland security, nanotechnology, memory, and obesity. Also, look for our weekly features — text, images, video, and audio — that tell the story of research and intellectual activity at Penn State.

Browse or search our archive, which includes the full text of Research/Penn State magazine back to 1993, and a series of dispatches from our reporters in the field. These explorations give readers the opportunity to watch research as it happens and to ask questions of the faculty involved.

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For the second year in a row, students from the College of Communications plan to take a classroom assignment from conception to reality and provide live streaming audio and video coverage of the 2006 IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon.

The student Webcast will be available at http://www.thon.org or http://www.comm.psu.edu/

In addition, Penn State Public Broadcasting will stream its Thon coverage from 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, through 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19, at both its home site of http://www.wpsu.org and on Penn State Live at http://live.psu.edu/ online.

Read the full story at http://live.psu.edu/story/16124

Find a Penn State Expert at http://experts.psu.edu/

Newspaper articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. tell the story of an African-American minister whose strong hope for social change never swerved his belief in nonviolence. During the American civil rights movement in the 1950’s and 1960’s, King encouraged nonviolent methods to protest segregation such as boycotts of city buses that gave preferential treatment to whites, sit-ins at lunch counters that refused to serve African Americans and mass rallies to draw attention to the civil rights cause.

Find more on Martin Luther King, Jr. by searching the archive.
http://martinlutherkingjrarchive.com/

To ensure seamless access to full-text PDFs from the SAGE collections and PsycARTICLES, please download and install the latest version of Adobe Acrobat, version 7.0.5 from:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

We have received reports that some of our users are experiencing problems downloading full-text PDFs. This problem is due to an incompatibility issue with older versions of Adobe Acrobat.

Once again, to ensure seamless access to full-text PDFs from the SAGE collections and PsycARTICLES, please follow the steps below:

-Uninstall the older version of Adobe Acrobat
-Download and install the latest version of Adobe Acrobat, version 7.0.5

An alternative solution to this would be to use the Firefox web browser, which has not experienced the same problems as Internet Explorer and Netscape.