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eclipse data from Penn State Brandywine

Eclipse research: Brandywine professor-student duo lends NASA a hand

9/22/17

The total eclipse on Aug. 21 sent faculty, staff and students from around the state outside to watch the action. While most of the Penn State community had their eyes on the skies, two people at Penn State Brandywine were thinking about the ground and air around them.

Gang Tan

Computer scientist receives $1 million in grants for his research

9/22/17

Gang Tan, associate professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, and colleagues have been awarded two research grants to help them design a software tool chain that will allow programmers to take advantage of modern memory features, including encrypted memory, transactional memory and scratchpad memory.

Image of Earth showing North and South America on a black background with faint white streak representing cosmic rays streaming toward the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina

Mystery solved: Super-energetic space particles crash to Earth from far away

9/21/17

Super-energetic space particles, which were thought to have been blasted toward Earth from somewhere outside our solar system, now have been discovered to have origins very far beyond our entire galaxy. The discovery was made by an international team that includes Penn State scientists and the Pierre Auger Collaboration, using the largest cosmic-ray instrument ever built.

Pennsylvania’s BJJS staff practice stress-reduction techniques.

Self-care program helps Pennsylvania juvenile justice caregivers combat stress

9/21/17

A new mindfulness-based, self-care initiative is being launched by the the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services through the Office of Children, Youth and Families, Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services, to teach youth-services workers stress management techniques needed to reduce the physical and emotional effects of on-the-job stress.

Purple Potato

Whole food diet may help prevent colon cancer, other chronic conditions

9/20/17

Colorful fruits and vegetables — like the purple potato — may contain compounds that help fight some types of cancer. An international team of researchers studied the anti-cancer effects of purple potatoes in pigs. This could be another step in finding prevention strategies and cancer treatments for patients.

Tracing trends could lead to better public health education

9/20/17

The educated members of a population are the trailblazers of risky behavior, but they are quicker to change their habits once they better understand the consequences of that behavior, according to new research from Penn State, which also could have implications on how public health education is approached.

Srinivas Tadigadapa and Steve Schiff

A neurosurgeon and an engineer walk into a lab ...

9/18/17

Penn State scientists are combining neuroscience, engineering, miniaturization, and magnetic fields to create a tiny device that could lead to better, safer treatments for epilepsy and other brain disorders by sensing and "talking to" brain cells without physically invading the brain.

Shaina Blunt

Radiation Science and Engineering Center receives $1 million DOE grant

9/15/17

Penn State’s Radiation Science and Engineering Center has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s University Infrastructure Grants program. Supplemented with an additional $600,000 in RSEC funds and equipment donations, the award will be used to update the control console and modernize the safety system at the Penn State Breazeale Reactor.

Gary Perdew horizontal portrait

Grant supports research to enhance epithelial barrier function, immune response

9/15/17

A faculty member in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has received a $7.3 million grant for innovative research on a cellular protein that could be a target for enhancing immune function in response to a variety of diseases and environmental toxins. Gary Perdew, John T. and Paige S. Smith Professor in Agricultural Sciences, received the award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.

preemie on mom's chest

Premature infants may get metabolic boost from mom’s breast milk

9/14/17

The breast milk of mothers with premature babies has different amounts of microRNA than that of mothers with babies born at term, which may help premature babies catch up in growth and development, according to researchers. The findings may help better match babies with donated breast milk and give insight into how to develop better infant formula.

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