Research Penn State

February 16, 2006

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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MULTIPLE ONLINE SITES TO PROVIDE STREAMING COVERAGE OF THON

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