Press/Awards related to research group activities:

• Award Announcement/News Story (Sept. 2018). Zimmerman and Land awarded NSF grant to study informal science learning using augmented reality in outdoor spaces. https://news.psu.edu/story/535882/2018/09/12/research/program-combines-mobile-devices-and-outdoors-unlikely-pairing

• Award Announcement/Press Release (Sept 2016): Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded $2.2 million for new STEMeX grant initiative.  https://www.imls.gov/news-events/news-releases/imls-announces-22-million-new-stemex-grant-initiative.  Heather Zimmerman, Michelle Crowl, Lucy McClain, and Susan Land (Penn State) are partnering with Schlow Centre Region Library, Centre County Library, Discovery Space of Central PA, and Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center on STEM programming.

• Award Announcement/News Story (April, 2016): “College of Education honors 8 at Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards Program.” Penn State News: http://news.psu.edu/story/405666/2016/04/20/academics/college-education-honors-eight-faculty-staff-and-student-awards.  Susan Land awarded the College of Education 2016 Outstanding Teaching Award.

• Award Announcement/News Story (November, 2015): “Penn State, Harvard team up to enhance science education for minority students”.  Penn State News: http://news.psu.edu/story/379772/2015/11/10/academics/penn-state-harvard-team-enhance-science-education-minority.  Heather Zimmerman and Susan Land (PSU Education) are collaborating with PI Nina Jablonski (PSU Anthropology) on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant.

• News Story, Learning Beneath the Trees (September, 2015): Land, Zimmerman, and Millet featured in Penn State IT News on our COIL-funded research with iBeacons for outdoor learning spaces: https://news.it.psu.edu/article/learning-beneath-trees

• News Story, “Penn State researchers use Gimbal Beacons to create interactive learning spaces”.  RFID Journal News Roundup:  http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?13513/5

• Award announcement (April, 2015): Land, Zimmerman, and students from the Augmented and Mobile Learning Research Group receive AERA SIG-IT Best Paper Award for 2015: https://twitter.com/susanmland/status/591970085390123008

• Award announcement (January 2015): Land, Zimmerman, & Millet receive COIL grant to study iBeacons and multi-touch foil displays for community engagement in Penn State Public Spaces:  http://coil.psu.edu/blog/using-ibeacons-mobile-technologies-and-multi-touchfoil-displays-to-support-new-forms-of-community-engagement-and-learning-in-penn-state-public-places/

• Award announcement (January 2014):  Zimmerman & Land receive COIL grant to study mobile learning and augmented reality outdoors: https://coil.psu.edu/blog/tree-investigators-using-augmented-reality-and-mobile-computers-outdoors/

• News Story: Service Learning Project Partnership with the Penn State Arboretum’s annual Arbor Day field trip event for 4th graders in the State College Area School District (June 2011, Penn State Live): http://news.psu.edu/story/157398/2011/06/09/garden-delights-arboretum-penn-state

• News Story: Using iPads and iPods in the PSU Arboretum to learn about trees (10/2011), Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology: http://tlt.psu.edu/2011/08/25/elementary-school-students-use-technology-to-become-tree-detectives-at-penn-state-arboretum/

• News Story: Apps for Education (9/2011), Penn State Connections:  http://www.ed.psu.edu/news/news-items-july-sept-2011/apps-for-education

General Penn State/State College press:

• Penn State World Campus Online Programs Ranked #1 (undergraduate) and #4 (Graduate) in 2015 US News and World Report: http://news.psu.edu/story/339735/2015/01/07/academics/penn-state-online-bachelor-programs-ranked-no-1-us-news-and-world?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=psu%20official

• State College, PA tops the list of top college towns in the US (2014, CollegeTown Network.com): http://www.collegetownnetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=155:state-college-pa-tops-list-of-best-college-towns-in-the-united-states&catid=1:latest-news

• 50 Best College Towns in the US (2014, PSU #8) http://www.bestcollegereviews.org/50-best-college-towns-america/

• Penn State – Top 25 healthiest colleges in the US (2014): http://news.psu.edu/story/324366/2014/08/28/campus-life/penn-state-named-10th-healthiest-college-us?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=email&utm_term=324345_HTML&utm_content=08-28-2014-21-26&utm_campaign=Penn%20State%20Today