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Interaction of ocean oscillations caused 'false pause' in global warming

2/26/15

The recent slowdown in climate warming is due, at least in part, to natural oscillations in the climate, according to a team of climate scientists, who add that these oscillations represent variability internal to the climate system. They do not signal any slowdown in human-caused global warming.

Social Science Acoustics Lab

Students use new lab to study how sounds influence human health

2/24/15

The Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management at Penn State has established the Social Science Acoustics Lab in Keller Building at the University Park campus. The lab is used in a variety of ways to investigate the impact natural sounds have on human health.

Northern leopard frog

Small predator diversity is an important part of a healthy ecosystem

2/23/15

Biodiversity, including small predators such as dragonflies and other aquatic bugs that attack and consume parasites, may improve the health of amphibians, according to a team of researchers. Amphibians have experienced marked declines in the wild around the world in recent decades, the team added.

Honduran potato workers

Project looks to horticulture value chain to improve outlook for Honduran women

2/23/15

Impoverished families in western Honduras stand to benefit from a new project aimed at improving access to that country's markets for high-value horticultural crops. Researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences have received a nearly $1.4 million grant to perform a gender-based analysis of the Honduran horticultural value chain, with an eye toward reducing barriers to participation for women and other marginalized groups, while enhancing family income and nutrition.

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Program gives high school students chance to do hands-on lab work with faculty

2/23/15

High school students are gaining hands-on laboratory experience at Penn State thanks to a new program with the State College Area High School Health Professionals Program and the College of Health and Human Development. Students can earn two non-degree credits at Penn State and three credits at State High by spending two semesters in a lab at University Park under the direction of a college faculty member.

Penn State Harrisburg professor's research aids nonprofits

2/19/15

Americans are generous, but skeptical. They give abundantly to charities -- an estimated $218 billion in 2011 alone. But they are increasingly demanding transparency in the organizations they choose to support. Roderick Lee, associate professor of information systems at Penn State Harrisburg, and colleague Marie Blouin, assistant professor of accounting at Ithaca College, have been studying nonprofits and the ways they can use their websites to build trust with potential donors.

Honavar leads new big data and discovery informatics center at Penn State

Interdisciplinary center seeks to leverage power of big data analytics

2/19/15

The explosive growth in big data has enabled researchers and scientists in many fields to harness information that has the potential to change the way governments, organizations, and academic institutions conduct business and make discoveries. The massive amounts of data that are being generated, however, require sophisticated algorithms, techniques and software tools to make that information useful. A new interdisciplinary center at Penn State seeks to leverage the talents of researchers across the University as part of a joint effort to maximize the potential of big data.

Statins may not lower Parkinson's risk

2/19/15

The use of statins may not be associated with lowering risk for Parkinson's disease, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The findings cast doubts on reports suggesting that the cholesterol-lowering medications may protect against this neurodegenerative brain disorder.

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