The pace of the energy transition has accelerated exponentially in recent years and South Africa has failed to keep pace. But there is hope with legislative changes paving the way for a more competitive electricity market, says Nick Hedley.

As families devastated by the recent fire in a Bangladesh slum rebuild their lives, the team helps, and individuals tell their stories.

The fifth daughter of a poor family, one girl thought she would never get an education. But thanks to OM’s new school, she has hope.

The faith of two young Bangladeshi men in 1976 served as a catalyst to OM’s focused outreach and the training of hundreds of new workers.

Massive distribution efforts by OM teams in Bangladesh over more than 10 years sowed gospel seeds and made the Bengali New Testament a #1 best seller.

The Patch Project, an initiative between Penn State Beaver and local nonprofit Reforest Our Future, aims to restore natural elements to the local landscape. Ten small patches of forest will be planted around Beaver County. The project is being completed with funds from the inaugural Commonwealth Campus Undergraduate Community-Engaged Research Award.
 

A consistent bedtime may be more important to a child’s ability to control their emotions and behavior than the duration or quality of their sleep, according to a new publication by researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development and Penn State College of Medicine. 

Small outreach teams will share the life-changing message of the gospel with hundreds of women in brothels and on the street this Easter.

Children's club at the church in Tkvarcheli, which is held by MDT students, impacts lives of local children and gives them hope.

In partnership with local churches, a team shared the good news of Easter through music with all kinds of people in Austria.

Santa Cruz, Bolivia :: God surprises a Logos Hope crewmember with birthday treats and new perspectives as she serves with a team on shore.

Rachel reaches out to Arabs through a mums and toddlers group based in her community in England.

Three educators share ways to connect their students to community engagement, including through project-based learning and community-service projects.

All principals are dealing with COVID-19, and some are dealing with wildfires or hurricanes at the same time. Those issues, on top of increasing job demands, are pushing principals to the breaking point. We need to do something about that.

A new survey examines which students want to be teachers and what's drawing them to—or driving them from—the profession.

A panel of experts—including a national teacher's union president and an official from the Department of Education—discussed how to make teaching a more attractive profession.

There could be an 8.4 percent reduction in the U.S. teaching corps, and some states could see reductions as large as 20 percent, according to a new analysis by the Learning Policy Institute.

Events continue through October as Penn State units at campuses across the commonwealth celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, observed each year from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. This year's overall theme is “Unidos en la Diversidad: Celebrating our Roots and Honoring our Heritage."

Northeast Regional Chancellor Elizabeth J. Wright has announced the hiring of two new full-time faculty members at Penn State Scranton: Jennifer Durham Gresham, assistant professor of biology, and Stephanie Longo, assistant professor of corporate communication.

Penn State Berks will present “People, Place, and Things,” a campus-wide exhibition that showcases artists with ties to eastern Pennsylvania whose work engages ideas of place-making and regional identity. The exhibition will open Nov. 21 and run through Feb. 26. The opening reception will be held from 12:15-1:15 p.m. on Nov. 21 in the Perkins Student Center Lobby. The event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.

Penn State Berks will host a variety of events during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2024, set for Monday, Nov. 18, to Friday, Nov. 22. Events are sponsored by the college’s Flemming Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development Center and the Berks LaunchBox in downtown Reading.

In response to recent federal U.S. Treasury policy changes, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) will temporarily pause accepting new applications for the Delaware Housing Assistance Program (DEHAP) at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 9. 

Delaware Affordable Housing Developers Facing Cost Increases Encouraged To Apply   Dover, Del., February 1, 2023 – The Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) is extending the submission deadline for the Market Pressure Relief Fund (MPRF) to 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 3, 2023. Application materials can be found here: http://destatehousing.com/Developers/Developers.php. MPRF was announced in July […]

Final Federal Assistance Is Available Through Early 2024; State-Funded Assistance Is Still Available and Ongoing   Dover, Del., September 18, 2023 – As part of the state’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) launched three new temporary programs to address barriers to achieving and maintaining homeownership for […]

This blog post is mostly just a bunch of fun maps ... maps that are labeled (or mislabeled) in various ways, using fun/interesting data. I focus on the 'fun' part, but if you're not careful you might also learn a little about the various ways to add labels to maps [...]

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When creating bar charts, it is very common to display labels with the bars to make it easier to determine the bar values or to provide additional information in the chart. However, these labels can take away valuable data space, particularly if you generate a smaller-sized graph. As you see [...]

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SAS SGPLOT already provides the necessary graphical elements for complex visualization. 3D or high-dimensional data can be easily visualized after being projected appropriately. With SAS' strong support for animation features, SAS users can create complicated 3D or high dimension visualizations quickly.

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Several Brazilians are now interested in serving full time with OM after attending a missions conference hosted by OM in Rio de Janeiro.

Participants of a short-term outreach event in July demonstrated God's love and plan for salvation with people in Manaus, the capital of the Amazonas State.

For OM Brazil, the year started with 10 great reasons to be encouraged and motivated: the arrival of 10 new workers.

Innovation Center, William Penn High School. – On Tuesday, Lt. Governor Hall-Long joined Patrick and Amy Kennedy and leaders in behavioral health from around Delaware for a round table discussion aimed at improving student mental health. Patrick Kennedy is one of the world’s leading voices on mental health and addiction. He is best known as the lead sponsor of the Mental Health Parity […]

In addition to a caring adult, research shows that prevention and treatment programs do work and there are resources available to help children and their families through the Delaware Children’s Department Division of Prevention and Behavioral Health Services (DPBHS) and the Department of Education (DOE) and local schools.

The non-marital birth rate to women age 24 and under was 71 percent in 2017. Here's what that means for educational outcomes and schools, according to guest blogger Ian Rowe.

Does a student have a fixed or a growth mindset? That's the wrong question for us to measure, argues researcher Dave Paunesku.

Supporters of an OM worker raise money for her ministry by hosting a rubber duck race.

Marloes Achterveld, from the Netherlands, shares about falling in love with the people of Curarrehue in southern Chile during OM Chile's Intensive Missions Training.

Preschool-age children who frequently play number-related games at home show better math skills and growth by the end of kindergarten, finds a new study in the journal Child Development.

Pamir Productions radio ministry sends texts to encourage listeners and viewers.

OM works behind the scenes to help Uzbek believers who are providing spiritual bread for their people also provide physical bread for their families.

In learning the Uzbek language, OMers gain insights into Uzbek culture and worldview, thus gaining greater understanding in how to pray for them.

A worker in Kazakhstan notes the impact of the gospel on the Kazakh language.

A dream comes true - the first OM recruit from her country sends the next group of recruits to the OM ship.

A new worker is able to use his profession to reach out in Central Asia.

A young Kurd struggles with feeling unimportant in the world, while another no longer worries because he knows who he is in Christ.

Mosbach, Germany :: New crewmembers participate in OM’s GO Conference in Mosbach, Germany before heading for the ship.

As ‘Karneval’ goers flooded the bars, Riverboat community members heading out on the streets to pray.

Disguised in different roles–from rebellious teenagers to homeless people to prostitutes and pimps–community members responsible for the onshore segment of The Agency experience act out the types of least reached people in society.

More than a year after a woman's body was recovered from a creek in the Thane district of Maharashtra, police have found that she was pushed to death from a bridge by her lover for resisting his sexual advances, officials said on Tuesday.

The BJP on Tuesday rejected the assertion that actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty's purse was stolen during a rally in Jharkhand's Dhanbad, claiming that it was misplaced and later found.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said it has attached fresh assets worth Rs 4 crore as part of a money laundering investigation against a Chinese national staying "illegally" in India and his associate.