Headlines

  • U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

    Secretary of Agriculture to speak at Penn State

    U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will deliver an address focused on land grant universities' contributions to agriculture on May 16 at University Park.

  • State sales-tax data suggest that business districts in counties with significant Marcellus Shale development, like this one in Wellsboro, Tioga County, are benefitting from the natural-gas boom.

    Tax revenues up in Marcellus Shale counties

    Natural-gas development appears to be having a positive effect on the local collection of state taxes in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region, researchers say.

  • Strong communications

    Penn State's College of Communications has won its first-ever national championship in the Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program.