Some time ago I was asked to nominate candidates for an honorary degree from Penn State.
For the record, I nominated V. Wilson (née Plame), Penn State alumnae, for services to the nation.
I was thanked, most politely, for my suggestion.
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Coming soon: Penn & Teller take on the anti-vaccine movement on an upcoming episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! No doubt it will resemble this little preview that Penn himself has tap
The NRC rankings are out.
Penn State Astronomy is ranked #3 - behind Princeton and Caltech.
W00t!
PSU doing the mostest with the leastest.
New high resolution near infra-red spectrograph, designed to find earth like planets in the habitable zone around low mass cool stars, is funded by the National Science Foundation
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This was/is a *great* idea.
Maybe I'll do the same this year, and we can get *two* polite responses.