Prolonged grief disorder, or PGD, is now a diagnosable medical condition. Is this a win for grieving people yearning to be taken seriously by practitioners and employers or is it a way to pathologize — and even profit from — a normal human experience?

Dr. Jason Doll talks with Take Note about the suicide crisis in veterinary medicine, about the stressors that contribute to it, and about the organizations working to provide education and support.

As a licensed funeral director and sacred grief practitioner, Joél Simone Anthony helps guide individuals and organizations through difficult conversations about death, dying, end of life, funeral and burial planning.

The Wall Street Journal reporter and author Josh Mitchell talks about the history of student loans and the student debt crisis.

Mel Curtis organizes food distributions for students, veterans and the general public throughout Centre County, Pennsylvania. We discuss Curtis’ efforts to help those facing hunger, how hunger has been exacerbated by COVID-19 and the effects of inflation on the program.

Brad Groznik talks about the Rediscover State College marketing campaign. They talked with Penn State alums, State High graduates and others who've left State College about whether they might move back and about their perceptions of the State College area, good and bad.

A mini-casino could be built in the Nittany Mall in Centre County if the project gets approval from the state board that oversees the industry. The industry and project have supporters, but the proposed casino has opponents too. On this week's Take Note, WPSU talked with two of those people who have been organizing opposition to the casino.

Penn State’s new president Neeli Bendapudi talks about the changing landscape of higher education and how that affects student success at Penn State.

WPSU spoke with Matthew Ferrari, director of Penn State’s Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, about the current increase in COVID-19 cases, how to understand the data and steps we can continue to take in response.

Penn State professor emerita Donna Bahry talks about how the war in Ukraine ties into past Cold War and post-Soviet history.