State College, Pennsylvania News Releases

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AccuWeather.com® Provides Flu Index™ as Flu Season Looms
New Resource in the Battle to Protect Your Family from Influenza - November 29, 2007

AccuWeather.com® Meteorologist Joe Bastardi Issues Updated 2007-08 Winter Forecast
Low Fuel Consumption Driven by a Warm "Heart" of Winter. - November 19, 2007

Penn State helps new Army recruits move toward college education
U.S. Army recruits can now get a jump on a Penn State education as the University has joined on to be a part of the Army's Concurrent Admissions Program (ConAP). ConAP is designed to help soldiers begin to talk with a university immediately after enlistment, so they can begin and potentially complete their education while in the Army. - November 09, 2007

Minitab Webinars Demonstrate Software for Six Sigma
Leading provider of software and services for quality improvement shows how latest software makes projects easier - November 08, 2007

AccuWeather.com® Launches Forecast Snapshot Tool for Google™ Maps
AccuWeather.com® Forecast Snapshot for Google™ Maps is the only maplet to provide global forecasts, current conditions, and radar. - November 08, 2007

Growing Problem of At-Risk Youth Addressed With Courses Organized by Nationally Known Expert David Capuzzi
The problem of at-risk youth is a growing one, one that requires involvement and action from a wide spectrum of resources. - October 19, 2007

Fall is in the Air and Online with AccuWeather.com's Fall Foliage Center
AccuWeather.com launches Fall Foliage Center in time for viewers to track the changes of the seasons. Featuring informative weather videos, maps of changing leaves and a Media Center with user-contributed autumn snapshots, the new center is a one-stop destination for all levels of "leaf chasers." - October 05, 2007

Leon County Schools Increase Safety for Students and Staff with SkyGuard® Service from AccuWeather
Leon County Schools are now using AccuWeather’s SkyGuard® comprehensive weather warning service to provide students and staff protection from hazardous weather. SkyGuard risk management service provides the Leon County School District with site-specific weather warnings. - October 04, 2007

Virginia Tech Outreach Programs Director to Head Penn State’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Timothy V. Franklin, Virginia Tech’s director of University Outreach Programs, Southside Virginia, has been appointed director of Penn State’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD), a unit of Penn State Outreach, effective Nov. 30. - September 29, 2007

AccuWeather.com® Launches New 15-Day Forecast Gadget for iGoogle™ Users
AccuWeather.com launched a new 15-Day Forecast gadget for iGoogle offering the widest available range of weather information including detailed radar, current conditions, and Hour-By-Hour™, 5-day, and 15-day forecasts. - September 23, 2007

AccuWeather Names Barry Lee Myers Chief Executive Officer
AccuWeather, Inc. (www.accuweather.com) announced that Barry Lee Myers has been named Chief Executive Officer, as Founder and President Dr. Joel N. Myers steps down to assume an expanded strategic role. - September 19, 2007

AccuWeather.com® Launches New RSS Center
Offering free dynamic feeds for forecasts, news, blogs, and more, the new center is a one-stop destination for headlines and clickable summaries of weather news, forecast information and blog feeds from AccuWeather.com’s respected meteorologists. - September 13, 2007

New AccuWeather.com® Astronomy Center Presents an Online Universe of Stargazing Tips, Videos, Blogs, and Beyond
AccuWeather.com launches a new Astronomy Center with improved advice and news on phenomena in the night skies. Redesigned and expanded, the Astronomy Center features detailed viewing conditions, interactive star charts and videos. - August 30, 2007

Clients Report More Than 1,000 Jobs and $48 Million in Benefits as a Result of Penn State Technical Assistance
Hot Pepper Wax of Greenville, Pa., makes a product that delivers a mouthful of fiery heat to any pest that tries to take a bite. Thanks to the Internet, much of the company's business is comprised of long-distance clients. Seeking to improve its Web site to further expand, the company turned to Penn State's Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP). - August 28, 2007

Penn State certificate program for special education supervisors goes online
Addressing a growing need for integration of special education into general curricula in the 21st Century school, Penn State World Campus takes a popular certificate program online. - August 09, 2007

Penn State Freshmen Adapt to College Life Through Outdoor Program Nationwide trend sees students beginning college careers with wilderness orientation
When beginning a college career, young adults all over the country are embarking on a new adventure in life. Nationwide, it is becoming a popular trend for schools to welcome incoming freshmen through outdoor orientation programs, which often include hiking, camping, and other outdoor activities to ease the angst of starting college. The award-winning Orion Wilderness Orientation Program at Penn State is intended to guide incoming students as they begin the adventures of college. - July 19, 2007

National conference provides opportunities for families with autistic children to connect
Starting out in 1998 with 300 attendees, the National Autism Conference at Penn State is one of the largest conferences of its kind — not just in the nation, but globally, attracting a diverse audience, including educational and behavioral health professionals, as well as those on the autistic spectrum (AS) and their family members. Last year more than 500 of the nearly 2,300 attendees were family members of those living with autism. - July 19, 2007

Energy Software Company Expands
Good Steward Software, LLC announced today that due to record-setting sales, it has moved to new headquarters. - July 09, 2007

AccuWeather.com® Now Providing Weather Content to ICS Technology®
STATE COLLEGE, PA, June 29, 2007 — AccuWeather.com announced today that it will be supplying ICS Technology, Inc. with weather, news, and sports content for redistribution on digital signage networks worldwide. The AccuWeather.com content functions as a powerful tool to draw viewers and reduce perceived wait times. - June 29, 2007

Penn State Launches First Online Geospatial Intelligence Program
In light of a greatly increased demand for qualified analysts in the intelligence, defense, and emergency management fields, Penn State has developed a new online certificate program in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT). The five-course, 14-credit postbaccalaureate program is designed to provide students with the core competencies required to effectively and ethically provide geospatial analysis to key decision makers at defense, governmental, business, and non-governmental organizations. - June 25, 2007

Smeal, World Campus launch online supply chain management master’s degree
Penn State’s Smeal College of Business and World Campus are offering a new master’s degree program in supply chain management that will allow working professionals to earn a graduate degree by taking courses online. - June 24, 2007

Training Simulation That Works In Second Life
How many times have you seen a project hit a brick wall of teams’ inability to work together: from mild cases of overblown ego and tug-of-war to vicious in-fighting? New training simulation, created by Delta L in Second Life reveals team compatability problems in advance, and helps team members to learn working together on a task. The working demo of the simulation is available in Second Life on Education Island. - June 23, 2007

Penn State Summer Camps Help Youth Gain New Knowledge and Skills and Explore Careers
Penn State summer camps offer young people much more than fun and games. They give participants opportunities to learn new things, explore a future career and make new friends, while also seeing what college life is like. Summer academic and sport camps annually bring nearly 30,000 youth to University Park. Thousands more young people attend summer camps at Penn State campuses statewide. - June 06, 2007

Girl Scout Patch Program Created by Penn State Professor Takes Aim at Female Bullying
Girls using words and behaviors to hurt other girls is known as relational aggression, a type of bullying that has historically been a fact of life—and caused a lot of pain emotionally. The Girls Scouts are no exception. A new patch program focuses on developing positive relationship skills. - June 01, 2007

AccuWeather.com® Selected as Exclusive Weather Content Provider for Visix®
AccuWeather.com announced today that it will be the sole provider of commercial weather content to Visix, Inc., allowing its unified communications software customers the option to receive current local weather conditions, local five-day forecasts and local weather radar for redistribution on digital signage networks worldwide. The AccuWeather.com content functions as a powerful tool to draw viewers and reduce perceived wait times. - May 23, 2007

Podcasts of Penn State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Conference Offered in Honor of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
To coincide with May’s National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, Penn State Conferences, a unit of Penn State Outreach, has made available for free audio and video files of its most recent annual Teen Pregnancy Prevention Conference. - May 23, 2007

“MyAccuWeather Video Challenge” Gives Weather Fans the Opportunity to Post their Own Video Forecasts on AccuWeather.com
AccuWeather.com today announced that it has launched a user-contributed video contest that invites AccuWeather fans to submit video forecasts from their own backyards. Top entries will be featured on the MyAccuWeather Video Challenge site within AccuWeather.com and one lucky winner will be brought to AccuWeather headquarters in State College, PA to do a real AccuWeather.com forecast. - April 18, 2007

AccuWeather® Joins with TV Stations and Newspapers to Bring Valuable Content to the Mobile Web via Third-Screen Network™
AccuWeather, Inc. today announced that nearly 200 major television and newspaper companies are at various stages of the contract and adoption process for the AccuWeather turnkey mobile web platform. - April 16, 2007

AccuWeather and UCView Media to Distribute the Latest in Digital Signage
AccuWeather, Inc. announced today that UCView Media, Inc. has licensed AccuWeather’s news, sports and weather content for redistribution on digital signage networks across the United States and Canada. - April 06, 2007

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