Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University, known as Penn State, is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania in the United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania and was named the state's first land-grant university eight years later. Its primary campus, Penn State University Park, lies in State College and College Township in Centre County. The university is classified as a very high research activity doctoral university and belongs to the Association of American Universities. Besides its flagship campus it runs two law schools, a College of Medicine in Hershey and a network of Commonwealth Campuses across the state. In the computing atlas it appears as the workplace of researchers such as the network scientist Réka Albert, a distinguished professor of physics and adjunct professor of biology there.