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Dispatch from Kenya: The Home Stretch
Friday, July 3, 2009

In this excerpt, IST graduate Steve Garguilo (WishVast team) sums up the group’s last days in Kenya (read more)


College of IST Welcomes New Faculty Members
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

The College of IST has two new additions to its faculty for the 2009-2010 school year: John Hill and Ed Glantz. (read more)


Researcher Receives $6 Million to Study Cyber Awareness
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

College of IST Associate Professor Peng Liu will be leading a research project on Cyber Situation Awareness (CSA), using a $6.25 million grant from the Army Research Office. (read more)


Graduate Student Wins 'Best Paper' Award
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

An incoming Ph.D. student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology recently won the Graduate Student Best Paper Award at the 4th Asian Conference on Risk Assessment and Management, held a... (read more)


Girls document “Places We’ve Been!” in technology workshops
Thursday, June 25, 2009

About 50 high school girls from Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and New Jersey attended two workshops sessions held by the college as part of the weeklong Women in Sciences and Engineering camp at Un... (read more)


Researchers Receive $1.2 Million MURI Grant
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

David Hall, director of the college’s Center for Network-Centric Cognition and Information Fusion (NC2IF), received a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Award (MURI) for his project, “... (read more)


Dispatch from Kenya: Making Progress
Monday, June 22, 2009

In this excerpt, Mashavu Team members James Mesta, Anthony Zmoda and Jonathan Sauer talks about the potential of the Mashavu system. (read more)


Students Turn Class Project into Useful Web Application
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Three IST 210 students turned a class project into a Web tool that can help students find study groups for their courses. For more information, visit: www.psustudy.com. (read more)


Trauth Wins Journal Award for Women in IT Research
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Trauth, professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State University, along with Jeria Quesenberry of Carnegie Mellon University and Haiyan Huang of Purdue University, won the award for t... (read more)


Dispatch from Kenya: A Change of Pace
Monday, June 15, 2009

In this excerpt, IST graduate Matt Prindible (Wishvast Team) reflects on reaching a milestone. (read more)


Jansen Receives Grant for Economic and Workforce Development Project
Monday, June 15, 2009

IST Associate Professor Jim Jansen and his students are aiming to help small and medium-sized businesses in Pennsylvania improve their online marketing efforts using an economic and workforce developm... (read more)


Lewis to Chair CORED
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Olivia Lewis, a financial assistant in the College of IST, will serve as the group’s chair from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. She joined CORED in 2002 shortly after she began working at Penn State. (read more)


If at First You Don't Succeed, Let the Search Engine Try
Sunday, June 7, 2009

A Penn State researcher analyzed nearly 1 million Web searches to detect patterns of query reformulation and create models to predict them -- models that may help create more advanced search engines. ... (read more)


Dispatch from Kenya: Getting to Work
Monday, June 1, 2009

In this excerpt, Steve Garguilo, (WishVast team) and Jimmy Mesta (Mashavu team) discuss working with the local community and its young residents. (read more)


Dispatch from Kenya: Welcome to Nyeri
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

A group of students from seven Penn State colleges are spending part of the summer in Nyeri, Kenya, to work on three humanitarian engineering and social entrepreneurship projects: Mashavu, WishVast an... (read more)


Supon to Retire from Penn State
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Stan Supon, currently assistant dean for undergraduate programs in the College of IST, will retire from Penn State on June 30. (read more)


Bright Futures Ahead for College of IST Ph.D. Students
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Two Ph.D. students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology recently accepted full-time tenure-track positions at major universities. (read more)


College of IST Commencement Ceremony Available Online
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The spring 2009 commencement ceremony for the College of IST at University Park will be available for real-time online viewing at the (read more)


New Version of Citation Search Engine Released
Monday, May 18, 2009

CiteSeerX, the new search engine based in Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, offers scholars a dramatically improved tool to explore the worlds of computer and information sc... (read more)


College of IST Students Create Online Golf Game
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

MegaPutt was created by students in IST 240 and can be downloaded at: www.megaputt.net. (read more)


Students Win IMPAQT Awards for Keyword Advertising Challenge
Monday, May 11, 2009

Three Penn State student teams participating in this year’s Google Online Marketing Challenge were recently chosen as winners of the Penn State portion of the challenge sponsored by IMPAQT (www.impaqt... (read more)


"Season of Usability" Applications Available
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Have you taken IST 331? Are you interested in working on an open source project? For 10-15 hours a week, between June 1 and August 31, you could work with an experienced usability mentor on a fun and ... (read more)


New Online System Rates Images by Aesthetic Quality
Monday, May 4, 2009

James Z. Wang, associate professor of information sciences and technology, is one of the principal researchers on the Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine (ACQUINE), a system that judges the aesthetic q... (read more)


Future Forum Keynote Available Online
Monday, April 27, 2009

The keynote address given by John McBeth, president and CEO of Next Century Corporation, at the 2009 IST Future Forum is available for viewing in its entirety on the college's media site. (read more)


Night of Honors Winners Announced
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The College of Information Sciences and Technology recently recognized outstanding student, faculty, staff, and alumni achievements at its annual Night of Honors ceremony. (read more)


New Librarian Makes College of IST His Focus
Monday, April 20, 2009

Daniel Hickey is the College of IST’s new academic librarian. He holds office hours in 316A IST building or in 302 Paterno Library. (read more)


First-year Student Receives Discovery Research Grant
Monday, April 20, 2009

Samantha Weirman, a first-year Security and Risk Analysis student, has received a 2009 Undergraduate Discovery Summer Grant to pursue cryptography research with Stan Aungst, professor of practice in t... (read more)


College of IST Students Place Second at Undergraduate Research Exhibition
Friday, April 17, 2009

A team of students from Angsana Techatassanasoontorn’s IST 220 class recently won second place at the Penn State Undergraduate Research Exhibition for their work on a feasibility study about the broad... (read more)


College of IST to Host Free Technology Camp for Middle School Girls
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University is giving middle school girls the opportunity to create their own video games and learn more about technology at a free, wee... (read more)


IST Student Government Planning Field Trip to Media Barn, Unisys
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The IST Student Government is sponsoring a field trip to Reston, Va., April 17. Participants will visit Media Barn and Unisys’s Center for Excellence. (read more)


Career Solutions Offers Tips on Social Networking, Personal Branding
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Career Solutions office in the College of Information Sciences and Technology recently held a workshop on creating a professional social networking presence and building a personal brand and offer... (read more)