Press Releases
Posted on 3/24/2023
Penn State lost a dedicated volunteer and tireless advocate for students on March 2. Jane W. Zimmerman, an Honorary Alumna whose gifts spanned dozens of University initiatives, leaves behind both a legacy of personal generosity and a decades-long record of building relationships and inspiring philanthropic support.
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Posted on 3/20/2023
In the next episode of "Conversations Live," WPSU will take a look at “sharenting” and the possible vulnerabilities and consequences of parents oversharing their children’s lives online.
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Posted on 2/27/2023
WPSU is providing a new way for community members to share their perspectives, feedback and questions with Talk to WPSU, a one-button web tool.
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Posted on 1/26/2023
WPSU is hoping to help listeners who are seeking the day’s news to cut through the chaos with “News Over Noise,” a podcast produced as part of Penn State’s News Literacy Initiative.
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Posted on 12/14/2022
WPSU will host its annual Connoisseur’s Dinner, Auction and VIP Cooking Class themed “The Latin Road Home” with celebrity chef Jose Garces on Feb. 10-11, 2023.
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Posted on 11/17/2022
The creators of WPSU’s Speaking Grief initiative have created an app called “Follow the Nudge” to help people who want to support someone who is grieving. The app is available free at followthenudge.org.
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Posted on 10/18/2022
Pennsylvania’s role as a battleground state in the 2022 midterm elections is the focus of WPSU’s “Conversations Live” on Thursday, Oct. 20.
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Posted on 10/14/2022
“Humanity at the Crossroads: Stories of Diversity in a Tribalized World” — the latest installment in the HumIn Focus series created by the Penn State Humanities Institute and produced by WPSU — will premiere on the station and stream simultaneously at live.wpsu.org at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23.
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Posted on 10/11/2022
Penn State has launched a two-year pilot program, a news literacy initiative to enhance students’ appreciation and understanding of news literacy and to provide students, as well as residents across the commonwealth, with resources and support as they attempt to avoid misinformation and find quality news sources.
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Posted on 10/3/2022
WPSU welcomes families from around the Centre Region to "Eventapalooza," its annual PBS KIDS' event at Penn State's Innovation Park on Saturday, Oct. 15.
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Posted on 10/3/2022
WPSU has won two 2022 regional Emmy awards from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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Posted on 9/26/2022
Get your garden ready for winter and find out more about canning the vegetables you grew on WPSU’s “Conversations Live,” airing Thursday, Sept. 29.
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Posted on 9/20/2022
WPSU has been awarded a Public Media Award for Community Engagement by the National Educational Telecommunications Association for its Multicultural Children’s Festival. This year's event was held on Sept. 18.
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Posted on 8/30/2022
Todd Davis, professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, is the new host of “Poetry Moment” on WPSU.
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Posted on 8/26/2022
A WPSU-produced webinar on Aug. 30 on “Effective Outreach Strategies for Connecting Underserved Communities with Grief Support Services” is part of WPSU’s Speaking Grief Initiative, a multimedia project that seeks to encourage a national conversation around normalizing grief.
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Posted on 8/11/2022
WPSU earned four 2022 regional Emmy award nominations from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, including two for pandemic-related programming.
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