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Drawdown Scholars returning to Penn State for international conference

9/13/19

Undergraduate students from across the country are returning to Penn State next week for the first international conference on the science of drawdown, the point at which greenhouse gases in the atmosphere begin to decline. The students, participants in this past summer’s Penn State Drawdown Scholars Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, will present results from their summer research projects from Sept. 16-18.

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Brain-inspired computing could tackle big problems in a small way

9/13/19

While computers have become smaller and more powerful and supercomputers and parallel computing have become the standard, we are about to hit a wall in energy and miniaturization. Now, Penn State researchers have designed a 2D device that can provide more than "yes" or "no" answers and could be more brainlike than current computing architectures.

Communities that Care prevention system helps to protect youth, study finds

9/12/19

Students in Pennsylvania school districts that participated in Communities that Care (CTC) coalitions were significantly less likely to use alcohol or marijuana, or to engage in delinquent behavior than those in non-CTC districts, according to a recent study published in Prevention Science.

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Papillomaviruses may be able to be spread by blood

9/12/19

Papillomavirus has traditionally been considered strictly a sexually transmitted disease, but a recent study found that rabbit and mouse papillomaviruses could be transferred by blood to their respective hosts.

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Penn State student teams awarded $25,000 for work with artificial intelligence

9/12/19

Penn State student teams used artificial intelligence to create more efficient ways for students to study, find a job and assess the housing situation. Revu, Resilient Resumes and LionPad received a combined total of $25,000 from the Nittany AI Alliance to continue working on their solutions, which were developed during the 2019 Nittany AI Challenge. The funding was awarded Sept. 10 at the Nittany AI Challenge Celebration Event.

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Resilient Resumes team places third in Nittany AI Challenge

9/11/19

The Resilient Resumes team took third place in the Nittany AI Challenge, held at Penn State's University Park campus on Sept. 10. The team received $5,000 for their web application designed to walk the user through the resume creation process.

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Building materials researcher joins architectural engineering

9/11/19

Juan Pablo “JP” Gevaudan, an experimental cement chemist and current Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, joined Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering on Aug. 16 as an affiliate professor. A member of the department’s structural engineering group, he will become a tenure-track assistant professor on July 1, 2021.

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Grant recipients work to improve reconstructive ACL surgeries

9/11/19

Spencer Szczesny, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Aman Dhawan, sports medicine orthopedic surgeon and associate professor with the Penn State College of Medicine, have been awarded one of two annual Grace Woodward Grants for Collaborative Research in Engineering and Medicine.

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Industrial engineering alumnus improves business-customer relations

9/11/19

Penn State industrial engineering alumnus Indraneel Fuke found a way to combine his engineering and entrepreneurial skills to offer unparalleled solutions for sales, marketing and customer service management for the banking, financial services, insurance and education sectors of the Asia Pacific market.

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Researchers seek to revolutionize catalyst design with machine learning

9/11/19

Researchers from Penn State and Carnegie Mellon University have received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to use machine learning — a form of artificial intelligence — and data science to design more effective catalysts for chemical processing. The grant is part of a new initiative by the DOE to provide $27.6 million in grants for data science research in chemical and materials sciences.

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Online classroom offers IST student opportunity to continue education

9/11/19

Kevin Golden, a senior studying security and risk analysis, considered withdrawing from the University because his physical limitations from spina bifida were preventing him from focusing in the classroom. But after one of his professors recommended that he look into continuing his education online, he decided to finish his degree through Penn State World Campus.

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