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Centre Safe is hosting Domestic Violence Awareness Month initiatives all October in Centre County — including purple courthouse lighting, a proclamation at the Willowbank Building in Bellefonte on Tuesday, Oct.

6 at 10 a.m., and the Empty Place at the Table exhibit at local YMCA branches to support survivors.

Penn State's Smeal College marketing professor Wreetabrata 'Wreeto' Kar introduces a new AI framework that screens and recommends email marketing content to reduce testing time + his work, featured in the Journal of Marketing Research, shows that human judgment remains key to success.

State College’s AccuWeather founder Joel Myers was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame Tuesday night in New York City and honored as a pioneer in modern weather forecasting who founded the company as a Penn State student in 1962.

The Penn State School of Music will host Family Weekend performances on Oct.

16 and 17 — featuring ticketed concerts by the Chamber Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Dimensions in Jazz, plus a free choral event at Pasquerilla Spiritual Center. Families can enjoy a range of musical styles that showcase talented students and faculty.

The Digital Arts certificate program is updating its capstone course to boost student research and creative skills through course revisions, portfolio reviews, and continuous feedback (changes include a new semester-long creative process).

The program will refine rubric language further using annual input from Penn State’s assessment team.

On Tuesday, the 2027 Times Higher Education rankings showed that Penn State climbed seven spots to No.101 worldwide and remains the highest-ranked public university (with a strong research environment among 2,297 institutions).

Eleven College of IST students attended the Tapia Conference in Atlanta from Sept.

16-18. The event celebrated computing diversity with keynotes, workshops, a career fair & sessions on frontier AI, assistive technologies, and cybersecurity.

The community, environment & development major at Penn State updated its curriculum with new courses to teach practical skills like grant writing, data analysis and public engagement.

An introductory course, Your Future in Social Good, will launch in spring 2027.

Twenty Penn Staters were honored in the latest We Are! feature for their exceptional work across multiple campuses, and the University invites nominations for others deserving of recognition.

Cui-Zu Chang, a professor at Penn State’s College of Science, was named an Experimental Physics Investigator by the Moore Foundation (one of 21 selections) and will receive $1.35 million over five years to support research on quantum materials and device physics.

Nominations for the 2026-27 Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award are now open to recognize a Penn State employee who has consistently mentored others.

Nominees must submit a nomination form and letters by 5 p.m. Dec. 4, with the winner honored at a spring Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony at University Park.

PennDOT will implement lane closures on I-99 between Harrison Road exit 80 and mile marker 58 from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. beginning Monday as pavement rehab work begins, with closures switching lanes in a few weeks.

The project runs until Thanksgiving and resumes next year for November 2027 finish.

WPSU joined WHYY on Thursday morning and ended its affiliation with Penn State after nearly two years of planning.

The station will keep its call letters and continue offering local PBS and NPR programming as changes proceed behind the scenes.

Starting Monday, PennDOT will enforce lane closures from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. on I-99 southbound between exit 80 in Spring Township and mile marker 58 near Port Matilda as it rehabilitates roadway and bridges.

Work will last until Thanksgiving and shift to northbound in a few weeks.

Penn State men and women’s basketball teams will host the fourth Ball at East Hall event on Thursday, Oct.

22 at 8 p.m. at the East Halls basketball courts, featuring games for players and students, food trucks and prizes.