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    Teaching Technology

    These Penn State College of Education students are providing virtual tutoring sessions to English language learners as part of a partnership with a community-based effort in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.

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    Creepy Campus Lore

    Why are there so many legends about ghosts haunting hallowed university halls? Matt Swayne, author and lecturer in Penn State's College of Communications, has a few ideas.

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    With the Pride of Lions

    Well known for walking backwards across campus to provide future students with their first glimpse of Penn State, the Lion Ambassadors organization does so much more.

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    Penn State Behind the Scenes

    For a recent project in Intro to Photojournalism, students received one instruction: Find two full-time Penn State employees and photograph their work.

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    Examining the Atoms of Disease

    Penn State scientist Scott Showalter is using high-powered magnets and his passion for chemistry to study the chemical structures in our bodies that cause disease.

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Diet affects pesticide resistance in honey bees

Feeding honey bees a natural diet of pollen makes them significantly more resistant to pesticides than feeding them an artificial diet, according to a team of researchers, who also found that pesticide exposure causes changes in expression of genes that are sensitive to diet and nutrition.

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Academics

Student aims to empower through teaching, mentoring, AIDS education

Sakena Sampson started a mentoring program for young women and is heavily involved in HIV/AIDS education, a motivation stemming from her middle school assistant principal, who continues to mentor and advise Sampson.

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Impact

Dear Hero Program sends 'little piece of home' to deployed troops

Jesse Brandenburg figured she’d see at least one smiling face after she drove eight hours to Maine to greet her boyfriend (now husband) after he returned from a deployment in Afghanistan. But what happened next surprised her.

Penn State Glee Club singing Fight Song

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Penn State biologist Andrew Read is using a new approach to fight viruses and bacteria that evolve to resist drugs designed to defeat them. bit.ly/1z6aNcd

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    Enjoy @PSUGleeClub rehearsing "The Nittany Lion" - bit.ly/1EmawVv - then check out the fall concert Saturday bit.ly/10AAN3r
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    We are proud to announce that we have achieved a successful hot firing of our H2O2 engine! youtu.be/qsCt1MY_iW4 @penn_state
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