The "digital divide" and "brain drain" in information technology have affected the U.S. since the mid-1990s. Kenya and other African nations are now facing those same problems more than a decade later... (read more)

SRA 211, taught by former Marine colonel Jake Graham, weaves together real-life characters with plausible situations as students solve Operation "Show Me the Money." (read more)

Four teams of IST 110 students recently became the recipients of the college’s first-ever “Gerry” awards for their work on video projects completed for Dr. Gerry Santoro’s class. (read more)

In order to be successful, today’s IT professionals need a combination of business knowledge and technical skills. And, according to Honeywell’s Senior Vice President of Technology and Operations Larr... (read more)

IST Lecturer Rosalie Ocker was announced the winner of the 2007-2008 George McMurtry Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award at the college’s Scholarship and Awards Banquet held Thursday, April 17 i... (read more)

IST doctoral student Phillip Ayoub recently traveled to South America to present a paper in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He also climbed one of the world's tallest mountains and studied the group dynamics invol... (read more)

IST students, faculty, staff and alumni were recognized for their contributions to the college over the past year at the annual Night of Honors ceremony, held Monday night in the Cybertorium of the IS... (read more)

Over the past month, members of MIST, the Magazine of IST, have held two tutorials for fellow students known as the “Quick and Dirty Sessions.” (read more)

As the mortgage and retail industries have shown, inter-organizational collaboration can help improve the bottom line and make customer service more efficient. But managing those relationships can pro... (read more)

IST Assistant Professor Jim Jansen and IST Ph.D. student Mimi Zhang have teamed to earn Best Paper honors at the recent Southern Association for Information Systems Conference in Richmond, Va. (read more)

A research project led by an IST faculty member examining the need for workforce diversity was named Best Paper at the 2008 ACM SIGMIS Computer Research Personnel Research Conference, held April 3-5 i... (read more)

IST hopes to diversify its student body by more than threefold, according to emerging goals in the college’s new strategic plan, now under development. (read more)

At a time when just about everything can be done online, IST researchers are using Second Life, a virtual online community with more than 3 million registered users, to help raise awareness about iden... (read more)

IST faculty members Jack Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson have won the Design Studies Award for the best paper to appear in the journal Design Studies during 2007. (read more)

Attention businesses: IST students in Frank Ritter's IST 331 course can help improve your Web sites. (read more)

Assistant Professor Jim Jansen's research categorizes search engine queries, with surprising results. (read more)

Students from IST, the College of Communications and the Smeal College of Business are teaming up for what might be the world’s largest academic competition. (read more)

Seventeen students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology will be honored among Penn State’s best academic performers at the Student Awards Convocation to be held in the Penn Stater C... (read more)

A newly released supply chain study of the Pennsylvania plastics industry challenges firms to adopt coordination practices that add increased value in order to retain existing customers, gain new cust... (read more)

Covel Commons on the UCLA campus was abuzz from February 28 to March 1 as i-Conference 2008 drew nearly 300 registrants from information schools across the United States and beyond. (read more)

The everyday course listing for IST 440W, Information Sciences and Technology Integration and Problem Solving, barely scratches the surface of what students in Dr. Shawn Clark’s class have been asked ... (read more)

IST Ph.D. candidate Philip Ayoub is taking what he's learned in IST to the top – the top of one of the tallest mountains in the world, that is. (read more)

IST’s “Virtual Adventures” program introduces girls to IT and aims to provide insight into what sustains women in their commitment to the IT profession. (read more)

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has awarded an unrestricted grant of $150,000 to IST’s Enterprise Informatics and Integration Center (EI2). Irene Petrick, director of EI2, will intern in India ove... (read more)

A three-man team comprised of IST students took top honors in the first PSU-HPTi Problem Solving Competition on February 9. (read more)

Maureen T. Kilian, a former executive with Boston-based AMR Research, has been named the new associate director of development in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. (read more)

A paper co-authored by IST faculty members Rosalie Ocker and Mary Beth Rosson took “Best Paper” honors in the collaborative systems track at the recent Forty-First Hawaii International Conference on S... (read more)

An interdisciplinary team of collaborators took “Best Poster” honors in balloting at the 2008 IST Graduate Symposium while two teams of graduate students in communications tied for the “Best Presentat... (read more)