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Smeal center partners with DC think tank to host workshop on Pa.'s energy future

6/15/18

The Center for Global Business Studies in the Penn State Smeal College of Business partnered with the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Energy and National Security Program to host a workshop titled “Preparing for Pennsylvania’s Energy Future, Workforce and Investment Opportunities” on May 31 in the Business Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Scranton now offering bachelor's degree in project and supply chain management

6/15/18

Penn State Scranton will begin offering a bachelor of science degree in project and supply chain management in fall 2018, Chancellor Marwan Wafa has announced. The degree will be offered as part of a consortium with the Hazleton, Schuylkill and Wilkes-Barre campuses. The first students will be accepted into the program for a fall 2018 start, and a full complement of upper-level classes will be offered beginning in fall 2019.

Narayanan, Sivasubramaniam to help advance intelligent memories via $27M center

6/15/18

Vijay Narayanan and Anand Sivasubramaniam, distinguished professors of computer science and engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State, are part of the Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP), one of six centers chosen across the nation by the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Joint University Microelectronics Program to undertake high-risk, high-payoff research that addresses existing and emerging challenges in microelectronic technologies.

An example of a stochastic flaw observed in Ti-6Al-4V PBFAM builds after HIP

Penn State to lead $1.4M grant to probe flaws in metal additive manufacturing

6/14/18

A team led by Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory, in collaboration with the Center for Innovative Processing thru Direct Digital Deposition, has received a $1.4 million grant by the Air Force Research Laboratory to examine the random flaws that arise during the process of powder bed fusion additive manufacturing.

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Penn State's Blue Sparrow team named Phase I winner of GoFly Prize

6/14/18

A team of Penn State aerospace engineering faculty and students is one step closer to making electric-powered human flight a reality after winning a Phase I award for the GoFly Prize, a worldwide competition to build the world’s first personal flying device.

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Energy Days focuses on buildings, energy challenges

6/14/18

The third annual Energy Days took place on May 30 and 31 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center on the University Park campus. A key theme from Energy Days was the built environment.

The leadership of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) came to Penn State to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Penn State President Eric Barron at Energy Days. The MOU formalized an agreement between the University and the United Nations to collaborate on a Global Building Network to be headquartered at Penn State.

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Penn College's industry ties exemplified in board appointments

6/14/18

Brett A. Reasner, dean of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s School of Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Associated Equipment Distributors Foundation. The foundation also has tapped the expertise of Justin W. Beishline, an assistant dean of the school, in naming him to its Technical Training Committee.

Ball Corp. creates pair of scholarships at Penn College

6/14/18

Ball Corp., a leading supplier of metal packaging and aerospace technologies, has established two scholarship funds at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Diversity in Manufacturing and the Manufacturing Tomorrow’s Leaders scholarship funds each will provide annual $1,500 scholarship awards to students at Penn College.

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Interviews and internships shape IST senior's future

6/14/18

Students in the College of Information Sciences and Technology are required to complete one internship to graduate. Senior Ryan Feng has exceeded that requirement, holding an internship every summer since beginning his college career.

Four people – two standing, two seated – are talking to each other. A woman in the middle is laughing.

A reunion with heart

6/13/18

Some of the nearly 500 people who have received a new heart at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center over the past three decades gathered recently to celebrate their successes.

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