Faculty International award recognizes engineer for cellulose research contributions 09/02/2022 Seong Kim, Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering and a professor of materials science and engineering, was named this year’s recipient of the Hayashi Jisuke Prize from the Cellulose Society of Japan. |
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Museums welcome students back to campus with passport program, special hours 09/02/2022 Did you know that there are dozens of museums and collections across the University Park campus? |
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Faculty 'Coffee Hour' to discuss youth movements and the politics of climate change 09/01/2022 Mark Ortiz, President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography at Penn State, will discuss the work of young climate activists and the movements’ distinct visions of climate justice at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9 in 112 Walker Building and via Zoom. |
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Faculty Sustainability educator lends expertise on new front: State Game Commission 08/31/2022 At first glance, Haley Sankey doesn’t seem a likely candidate for the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s appointed board of commissioners. |
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Faculty Penn State team awarded $2.3M to assess disease vulnerability, improve response 08/31/2022 An interdisciplinary team from Penn State has been awarded $2.3M from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation’s joint Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID) program to evaluate the vulnerability of certain populations to disease outbreaks, with the goal of improving outbreak response and preventing future outbreaks. |
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Faculty New model that examines materials at mesoscale may be bridge to next-gen devices 08/30/2022 A newly developed model may serve as a bridge between quantum mechanical calculations at the atomic scale and devices that could enable next-generation quantum technologies, according to a team of Penn State researchers. |
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Alumni Penn State, Aramco commemorate gift in kind, continued partnership 08/25/2022 A recent gift of a Thermotron humidity chamber from energy company Aramco Americas will support numerous research projects in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. |
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Faculty Researchers to develop scaffolding for nerve regeneration with $2.14M NIH grant 08/16/2022 Peripheral nerves are responsible for moving muscles, sensing temperatures and even inhaling and exhaling; yet they comprise fragile fibers vulnerable to disease and injury. |
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Alumni Education abroad helped Liberal Arts alumnus pursue love of classics and music 08/16/2022 Alumnus Jay Johnson’s latest folk-rock-indie album, “Four Quartets,” touches on travel, philosophy, love and the natural world. |
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Faculty Irreversible declines in freshwater storage projected in parts of Asia by 2060 08/15/2022 New research led by scientists at Penn State, Tsinghua University and the University of Texas at Austin projects that climate change, under a scenario of weak climate policy, will cause irreversible declines in freshwater storage, constituting a serious threat to the water supply for central Asia, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir and Pakistan by the middle of the century. |