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Kathryn Barlow

Shale gas development spurring spread of invasive plants in Pa. forests

7/20/17

Vast swaths of Pennsylvania forests were clear-cut circa 1900 and regrowth has largely been from local native plant communities, but a team of researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has found that invasive, non-native plants are making significant inroads with unconventional natural gas development.

NSF grant supports research into geospatial intelligence during civil rights era

7/18/17

During the civil rights movement, activist groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) used geography and geospatial intelligence to identify protest sites and to plan civil rights protests. A new $373,000 National Science Foundation grant is letting researchers dig into those geospatial tactics to see what can be learned about patterns of racial inequality and how the SNCC collected and leveraged geospatial intelligence data to bolster its activist efforts.

Doctor looks at X-Ray

False-positive mammogram results linked to spike in anxiety prescriptions

6/30/17

Women who experience a false-positive mammogram result are more likely to begin medication for anxiety or depression than women who received an immediate negative result, according to a study led by Penn State researcher Joel Segel. The finding highlights the importance of swift and accurate follow-up testing to rule out a breast cancer diagnosis.

Luke Gleba

Department of Defense honors IST senior with SMART scholarship

6/28/17

Luke Gleba, a third-year senior majoring in security and risk analysis, was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service. Gleba was one of 250 awardees selected from thousands of applicants.

Penn State Law Civil Rights Appellate Clinic students at the U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court agrees with Penn State Law clinic in new decision

6/27/17

The Supreme Court held that federal employees have a right to de novo review regardless of whether the MPSB dismisses a case on procedural or jurisdictional grounds — which is the argument that was put forth by Penn State Law students in their amicus brief filed on the plaintiff’s behalf.

A bow echo formed on May 14, 1995.

New IST research leverages big data to predict severe weather

6/21/17

Every year, severe weather endangers millions of people and causes billions of dollars in damage worldwide. But new research from Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and AccuWeather has found a way to better predict some of these threats by harnessing the power of big data. By identifying bow echoes, this automatic detection would be vital to earlier recognition of severe weather, saving lives and resources.

photo of building hit by earthquake

Grant to fund research into new metamaterial that provides earthquake protection

6/20/17

Earthquakes and explosions damage thousands of structures worldwide each year, destroying countless lives in their wake, but a team of researchers at Penn State is examining a completely new way of safeguarding key infrastructure, thanks to a Multidisciplinary Research Seed Grant provided by the College of Engineering.

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