A classic town-and-gown community situated in bucolic central Pennsylvania, State College is a powerful economic driver with Pennsylvania State University at its core. A significant portion of the school's budget is set aside for research; the Applied Research Lab partners with the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering oversees the longest operating licensed university research reactor in the country.
State College is also a nice place to live and visit, its downtown teeming with hundreds of restaurants, shops and seasonal festivals, which might be one reason Psychology Today voted it one of the "50 Smart Places to Live" in the U.S.
By: John Steele, 6/4/2009
As research universities across the Commonwealth focus more resources
on innovation and industries, they're getting savvy about how to turn
laboratory and classroom ideas into cutting-edge technology companies.
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By: John Steele, 1/15/2009
President-elect Obama has announced plans for massive infrastructure
investment, and scientists and engineers across the Commonwealth have
taken note. As concern over our crumbling infrastructure grows, researchers
at Penn State are hoping for a chance to show what they can do.
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