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Discovering culture and politics: Dispatches from Paris

Undergraduate Sarah Weaver describes her studies and explorations in Paris.

This ancient ground: Dispatches from Turkey and Jordan

Recent Penn State graduate, Josh Ambrose, sends updates from his Middle Eastern travels. slideshow button

Snapshots of scholars

Two McNair scholars discuss their summer research projects.

Home to Orkney

An undergraduate ethnographer explores the Dominican Republic.

Boys of the streets

Lindsay Watkins studies Scottish seaweed.

September 2002

(student editor: Alison Balmat) The Waters of the Nile, A Tattle Tale, Four-Legged Exercise, Moving at the Speed of Goat, Peace Chat, History Through Negatives, Seeds of Discovery

September 2000

(student editor: Melissa Paugh) Finding the Flavor of Chocolate, Energy at the Speed of Light, Stumped, The Gypsy Life, Bug Camp

September 1998

In addition to supporting cutting-edge research, Penn State's Nanofabrication Facility is training the workforce of the future.


Student writers also posted reports from the 2002 and 2004 undergraduate research fairs, sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Education and the Schreyer Honors College.

Undergraduate Exhibition 2004

Undergraduate Exhibition 2002