2017-05-22 20:37
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Six graduating seniors in the Penn State Smeal College of Business class of 2017 each passed five of the necessary exams toward their actuarial science accredita… Read More
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2017-05-22 19:23
Penn State Altoona has been awarded the inaugural Rossman-Kazmaier Partnership Award from the Altoona Blair County Development Corporation (ABCD). The award was presented to Chancellor and D… Read More
2017-05-22 18:29
Falling sulfur dioxide emissions in the United States are expected to substantially increase rainfall in Africa’s semi-arid Sahel, while bringing slightly more rain to much of the Unit… Read More
2017-05-22 18:10
Lamont Scientists Are Focus of NY Times Multimedia Series
The “Ice Pod” instrument array deployed off the side of a military cargo plane over Antarctica. Photo: Winnie Chu/Lamo… Read More
2017-05-22 17:42
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State recently hosted the Doctoral Student Research Think Tank in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in order to support the research communit… Read More
2017-05-22 17:06
Monday, 22 May 2017
A University of Adelaide researcher working on precision measurement has been recognised by the National Measurement Institute (NMI).
Professor Andre Luiten, Director of… Read More
2017-05-22 16:40
Making nuclear fusion a practical energy source is a complex challenge that will require diverse capabilities — like the scientific, engineering, communication, and leadership ski… Read More
2017-05-22 15:00
Drugs manufactured by living cells, also called biologics, are one of the fastest-growing segments of the pharmaceutical industry. These drugs, often antibodies or other proteins, are being… Read More
2017-05-22 14:06
Severe flooding occurred during the 2011 monsoon season in Thailand, resulting in more than 800 deaths and 14 million people affected, mostly in the northern region and the Bangkok metro are… Read More
2017-05-22 14:01
By Ziba Kashef
May 22, 2017
A Yale-led team of researchers have developed an electronic application tool that puts patients at the center of a decision about an overused medical te… Read More
2017-05-19 19:29
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State President Eric Barron joined providers of entrepreneurship resources in celebrating innovative Penn State startup, Phospholutions, on Thursday, May 18… Read More
2017-05-19 18:55
Today, MIT’s cross-disciplinary Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI) announced that it has awarded $1.5 million to a select group of principal investigators for early-stage Inter… Read More
2017-05-19 17:59
A team of MIT researchers has designed a breathable workout suit with ventilating flaps that open and close in response to an athlete’s body heat and sweat. These flaps, which range fr… Read More
2017-05-19 14:15
Sustainability Students Awarded SPS Student Leadership Honors
The Office of Student Affairs hosted the School of Professional Studies Student Leadership Banquet on May 2, 2017. SPS Dean, J… Read More
2017-05-19 13:54
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Penn State Berks will host a Workforce Development Seminar titled “How to Retain, Attract and Advance Dynamic and Engaged Employees,” presen… Read More
2017-05-19 09:00
By William Weir
May 19, 2017
A Yale research team has found that by tinkering with the surface properties of drug-loaded nanoparticles, they can potentially direct these particles to… Read More
2017-05-18 19:38
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Businesses and individuals interested in Pennsylvania’s large forest-products industry can learn about goods, services, best practices and industry trends… Read More
2017-05-18 19:30
The big winner at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition aims to drastically accelerate artificial-intelligence computations — to light speed.
Devices such as Apple&r&hell…Read More
2017-05-18 18:00
The environment on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, may seem surprisingly familiar: Clouds condense and rain down on the surface, feeding rivers that flow into oceans and lakes. Outside o… Read More
2017-05-18 17:57
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Thousands of students in China are learning to appreciate the subtleties of wine, how it’s made and how grapes are grown, through a University of Adelaide online… Read More
2017-05-18 17:39
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Hailong Ye, a postdoctoral researcher in civil engineering at Penn State, was recently selected to receive the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (M… Read More
2017-05-18 17:37
Welcome to Bistro Nittany. Please silence your phone and place it out of sight. You may take your seat and the first course will be served shortly. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++… Read More
2017-05-18 17:26
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Research led by the University of Adelaide is paving the way for safer and more effective drugs to treat type 2 diabetes, reducing side effects and the need for insulin… Read More
2017-05-18 17:14
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Seogchan Kang, professor of plant pathology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Phytopathologica… Read More
2017-05-18 15:38
Members of the community and Michigan’s agriculture industry are invited to tour several of the Michigan State University research facilities this summer during the annual field day fe… Read More
2017-05-18 14:25
By Kristen French
For years, scientists have been warning of a so-called “hot spot” of accelerated sea-level rise along the northeastern U.S. coast. But accurately modeling this… Read More
2017-05-18 14:02
By Jim Shelton
May 18, 2017
Photos: Wright Lab dedication ceremony
Karsten Heeger, director of the Wright Laboratory welcomes guests.
Professor Rick Casten… Read More
2017-05-18 13:01
Editor’s Note: Only students approved to participate in the upcoming Student Vulnerability Reporting Program may perform security experiments on Penn State networks. Gaining unauthoriz… Read More
2017-05-18 12:44
May 18, 2017
Dr. Fred Sanford Gorelick, newly designated as the Henry J. and Joan W. Binder Professor of Internal Medicine, focuses his research on the mechanisms that initiate pancreati… Read More
2017-05-18 12:42
May 18, 2017
Ingrid M. Nembhard, newly named as the Ira Vaughn Hiscock Associate Professor of Public Health, focuses her research on organizational learning in health care, with an empha… Read More
2017-05-18 03:59
In recent years, a host of Hollywood blockbusters — including “The Fast and the Furious 7,” “Jurassic World,” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” —… Read More
2017-05-18 03:59
If you have money in the stock market, then you are probably anticipating a profit over the long term — a rational expectation given that stocks have historically performed well. But w… Read More
2017-05-17 18:50
A recent study estimates that about 1.6 million people in China die each year — roughly 4,000 a day — from heart, lung, and stroke disorders due to poor air quality. Most of the… Read More
2017-05-17 18:34
Every winter, trees on high mountains in a small area northwest of Mexico City turn orange. Close inspection reveals branches filled with brilliantly colorful monarch butterflies, rather tha… Read More
2017-05-17 18:26
A screening of “Poisoned Water” will be shown at 7 p.m. May 23 at the Flint Institute of Arts, with a panel discussion to follow.
The film “Poisoned Water” looks at… Read More
2017-05-17 17:53
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A course offered by the Department of Kinesiology may focus on golf — how to play, it’s history, and the etiquette of the game — but students w… Read More
2017-05-17 17:00
By Jim Shelton
May 17, 2017
Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be super-sophisticated to make a difference in people’s lives, according to a new Yale University st… Read More
2017-05-17 16:09
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new undergraduate certificate program offered by Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences will give students interested in agricultural stewardship… Read More
2017-05-17 15:04
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tonight, try this: Turn the main fuse in the house off and see how it feels to live without electricity for 24 hours. No lights for reading, no TV for informatio… Read More
2017-05-17 15:04
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tonight, try this: Turn the main fuse in the house off and see how it feels to live without electricity for 24 hours. No lights for reading, no TV for informatio… Read More
2017-05-17 13:09
Continuing her crusade against malaria, Terrie E. Taylor is once again on the hunt to find out why this deadly disease is still going strong in the African nation of Malawi, despite ongoing… Read More
2017-05-17 11:00
By A. Sarah Hreha
May 17, 2017
The Gruber Foundation will award $1.5 million to an astronomer who explores populations of distant stars, a biologist who investigates how cells repa… Read More
2017-05-17 09:00
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Transporting methane from gas wellheads to market provides multiple opportunities for this greenhouse gas to leak into the atmosphere. Now, an international team… Read More
2017-05-16 22:54
About the OSU College of Public Health and Human Sciences: The only accredited college of public health in Oregon, the college creates connections in teaching, research and community outreac… Read More
2017-05-16 22:44
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The ocean sequesters massive amounts of carbon in the form of “dissolved organic matter,” and new research explains how an ancient group of cells in the d… Read More
2017-05-16 19:52
Ten Penn State students enrolled in the Philadelphia regional general engineering degree program presented senior capstone projects at the annual Design Expo, held recently at Penn Stat… Read More
2017-05-16 19:32
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Health and Human Development recently hosted the Online Faculty Conference as an opportunity to promote and facilitate successful online teac… Read More
2017-05-16 16:25
Electric fish have been a model biology system since the 18th century. Their potential, though, has been mostly isolated to neurological studies. Thanks to the recent availability of electri… Read More
2017-05-16 15:45
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The rare but spectacular eruptions of supervolcanoes can cause massive destruction and affect climate patterns on a global scale for decades – and a new study h… Read More
2017-05-16 15:21
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Central American tropical forests are beginning to disappear at an alarming rate, threatening the livelihood of indigenous peoples there and endangering some of the m… Read More
2017-05-16 14:25
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The nearly century-old effort to employ selective breeding to rescue the American chestnut, which has been rendered functionally extinct by an introduced disease… Read More
2017-05-16 14:23
16 May 2017
Maize seeds are now 15 times bigger than the wold for due to domestication
New study has important implications for understanding how crops evolved
The beginnings of agricultur… Read More
2017-05-16 12:17
DUBOIS, Pa. — When Kyle Bear applied to the General Engineering program at Penn State DuBois, he never imagined he may help to influence an entire industry. The U.S. Army veteran, orig… Read More
2017-05-16 09:58
Midlands-based inventor Steve Lindsey – the only UK finalist – is vying for the European Inventor Award
Members of the public are invited to vote online and select the winner of… Read More
2017-05-16 09:17
16 May 2017
Study reveals human teeth evolved from the same genes that make the teeth of pufferfish
Pufferfish replace some teeth with elongated bands that form their characteristic beak
Re… Read More
2017-05-16 09:00
Many diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, can be treated with electrical stimulation from an electrode implanted in the brain. However, the electrodes can produce scarring, which d… Read More
2017-05-15 20:11
For Barbara Yener, director of the new Penn State Smeal College of Business online Graduate Certificate in Corporate Accounting, the first class in the program is akin to a course on languag… Read More
2017-05-15 18:45
Medical students from both the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and College of Osteopathic Medicine were honored as Rural Health Scholars at this month’s annual Mic… Read More
2017-05-15 17:07
Monday, 15 May 2017
The University of Adelaide has announced a new focus on helping grow the food sector with the appointment of its inaugural Director of Food Innovation.
Professor Andrew L… Read More
2017-05-15 17:05
Mark Guiltinan and Siela Maximova work together all over the world. As co-directors of Penn State’s endowed cocoa research program—and husband and wife—the two have chased… Read More
2017-05-15 17:04
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Scientists cannot travel into the past to take the Earth’s temperature so they use proxies to discern past climates, and one of the most common methods for obta… Read More
2017-05-15 16:55
Read more from Executive Director Steven Cohen at the Huffington Post.
The Trump Administration’s relentless march to repeal federal regulations is not limited to environmental rules… Read More
2017-05-15 16:30
The MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) Global Seed Funds (GSF) grant program promotes and supports early-stage collaborations between MIT researchers and their coun… Read More
2017-05-15 15:36
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — June marks the start of what many here in the Northeast believe is the sweetest part of summer — berry season. It’s a time ripe with strawberry festi… Read More
2017-05-15 15:32
By Jim Shelton
May 15, 2017
If you pit a pair of gladiators, one strong and one weak, against each other 10 times, the outcome will likely be the same every time: The stronger competi… Read More
2017-05-15 15:21
Some people travel to northern California for wine. However, Maren Friesen, Michigan State University plant biologist, treks to the Golden State for clover.
The lessons of plant diversity an… Read More
2017-05-15 15:19
By Karen N. Peart
May 15, 2017
A new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has found that surgeons’ use of a new imaging test i… Read More
2017-05-15 14:59
A new study by researchers from MIT and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich shows that the most extreme rain events in most regions of the world will increase in intensity by… Read More
2017-05-15 14:59
College women with mental health or behavioral disabilities are experiencing sexual violence and intimate partner violence that involves intimidation, name-calling and humiliation that speci… Read More
2017-05-15 14:36
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A short and simple word has made all the difference for Daniel Zimmerman.“I think that by saying ‘yes,’ I’ve really opened myself up to a… Read More
2017-05-15 13:56
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Through his involvement with the President’s Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Equity at Penn State, Damian Salonick learned th… Read More
2017-05-15 12:30
Leymah Gbowee: Out of War, a Legacy of Building Peace
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Leymah Gbowee was 17 when war broke out in Liberia. Her experiences thereafter drove her onto a path of suffering… Read More
2017-05-12 16:22
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Research using time-lapse photography in the Galapagos Marine Reserve suggests the presence of a key multilevel “trophic cascade” involving top- and mid-l… Read More
2017-05-12 16:10
[unable to retrieve full-text content]At its annual meeting May 11 at the Uniontown Country Club, the Advisory of Board of Penn State Fayette Inc. announced Debbie Powell Manchas and Joseph… Read More
2017-05-12 12:47
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Jennie deCarrier Benzon, vice president of distinctive franchising brands at Marriott International, has joined the Penn State School of Hospitality Management (… Read More
2017-05-12 09:30
Friday, 12 May 2017
An international team of scientists including from the University of Adelaide have discovered 467 million hectares of previously unreported forest – an area equival… Read More
2017-05-11 19:48
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Merck, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, is the newest Penn State Smeal College of Business Corporate Partner. The company joins 28 exist… Read More
2017-05-11 18:42
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A University faculty member and nurse has been named the new interim dean of Penn State’s College of Nursing. Janice Penrod is scheduled to begin her appoi… Read More
2017-05-11 18:01
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Smart glass, transitional lenses and mood rings are not the only things made of liquid crystals; mucus, slug slime and cell membranes also contain them. Now, a t… Read More
2017-05-11 18:00
By Bill Hathaway
May 11, 2017
In the immune system, macrophages act not only as soldiers responding to invading pathogens but also help rebuild the injured tissue once the infectio… Read More
2017-05-11 16:10
On April 24-26, 24 MIT graduate students, undergraduates, and postdocs traveled to Washington to participate in the annual Science-Engineering-Technology Congressional Visits Day (CVD). The… Read More
2017-05-11 15:09
Michigan State University hosts the first “Fascination of Plants Day: From Seed to Fruit” on May 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Molecular Plant Sciences Building.
The public is… Read More
2017-05-11 03:59
Most children who visit a doctor because they have a sore throat are tested for Streptococcus (“strep throat”), a contagious condition that can cause serious complications if not… Read More
2017-05-10 22:30
By Ziba Kashef
May 10, 2017
Life expectancy for 20-year-olds initiating treatment for HIV has increased by about a decade in the European Union and North America since the introduc… Read More
2017-05-10 20:00
More than three out of every four individuals released from U.S. prisons are re-arrested within five years. Given the sharp negative effects that incarceration has on individuals and their c… Read More
2017-05-10 19:47
By Sheean T. Haley
Scientists aren’t typically known to be emotional, but recently, when I faced a room packed with colleagues, media and my six-month-old daughter, who was wearing he… Read More
2017-05-10 18:30
The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has announced its third round of seed grant funding to the MIT community. J‑WAFS, launched in 2014, is MIT&rsqu&hell…Read More
2017-05-10 17:29
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. —President Eric Barron reviewed the goals that he and the University Board of Trustees established for the previous year, accomplishments and progress on achieving… Read More
2017-05-10 17:13
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The family dog could serve as a partner and ally in efforts to help children with disabilities incorporate more physical activity into their daily lives, a new study… Read More
2017-05-10 17:00
Lung adenocarcinoma, an aggressive form of cancer that accounts for about 40 percent of U.S. lung cancer cases, is believed to arise from benign tumors known as adenomas.
MIT biologists have… Read More
2017-05-10 16:54
SCHUYLKILL, Pa. — Five months before Carrel Reid was set to graduate from the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) in 2016, he began applying for jobs.“I applied… Read More
2017-05-10 14:00
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning techniques such as optim… Read More
2017-05-10 12:30
May 10, 2017
Dragomir R. Radev, newly named as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science, focuses his research on Natural Language Processing (NLP), information retrieval (I… Read More
2017-05-10 04:00
When it comes to removing very dilute concentrations of pollutants from water, existing separation methods tend to be energy- and chemical-intensive. Now, a new method developed at MIT could… Read More
2017-05-09 19:51
Thomas Mann, internationally known jewelry and sculpture artist, is bringing a new community art project to the Lehigh Valley in July. The Trajectory Heart Project, which began in 2009 durin… Read More
2017-05-09 18:33
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Because it is recognized that design is at the core of all engineering disciplines, many colleges and universities across the nation have implemented first-year… Read More
2017-05-09 18:31
Database Tracks Global Climate Law
A new online database is tracking climate change legislation around the world. The tool was launched this week in a joint effort by the Sabin Center for… Read More
2017-05-09 17:31
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Penn State Extension has named six assistant directors to oversee statewide educational programs addressing a variety of subject-matter areas of importa… Read More
2017-05-09 15:39
By Ziba Kashef
May 9, 2017
Project ASSERT, a collaboration between the Emergency Department at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health, marked its 17th anniversary this s… Read More
2017-05-09 15:00
By Ziba Kashef
May 9, 2017
Nearly 1 out of every 3 drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have a new safety issue detected in the years after approval, says a Yal… Read More
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