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Samuel Tanner authors new book

"Whiteness, Pedagogy, and Youth in America: Critical Whiteness Studies in the Classroom" details a teacher-researcher project Tanner conducted in Minnesota.
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Anthony Biddle, owner of SiteRite, is the winner of the 2017-18 Altoona LaunchBox Bootcamp Business Plan Competition.

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Penn State Army ROTC program selected as General Douglas MacArthur Award winner

Penn State’s Army ROTC program has been selected as a General Douglas MacArthur Award winner for 2017-18, outperforming 41 other programs in the Northeast for the honor. The award is presented annually to the top Army ROTC program in each of the U.S. Army Cadet Command’s eight brigades, with the winning units selected from among the 275 Army ROTC programs nationwide.
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ROTC 2017 MacArthur Award embed

Penn State Army ROTC, the Nittany Lion Battalion, received the 2017 MacArthur Award during a ceremony held March 27 at Schwab Auditorium. The award recognizes the eight programs, selected from the 275 ROTC units nationwide, as the top programs in the country.