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College of Medicine to host American Cancer Society grant workshop

9/21/18

The Penn State College of Medicine will host a regional workshop with the American Cancer Society from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 14 to introduce participants to the society’s research portfolio and explore the types of competitive grants it awards to cancer researchers.

Intramural Building

IM Building rededication ceremony scheduled for Oct. 3

9/21/18

Campus Recreation, a unit of Penn State Student Affairs, will hold a rededication ceremony for the Intramural (IM) Building at 11 a.m. on Oct. 3. The event will open with a ceremony featuring speakers from 11 to 11:45 a.m., followed by building tours and a scavenger hunt.

Alessandro Fanfarillo

NCAR software engineer to discuss exascale computing, message passing interface

9/21/18

Alessandro Fanfarillo, a senior software engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, will present “Getting ready for exascale computing: New features of the Message Passing Interface (MPI), challenges and opportunities" from 2 to 3 p.m. Oct. 15 in W375 Westgate Building. The event is sponsored by the Institute for CyberScience, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology.

Apple orchard

Fruit research and extension projects receive funding from industry groups

9/21/18

The State Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Apple Program recently awarded nearly $233,000 in funding to support new and ongoing fruit research and extension projects in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. The grants will support projects aimed at enhancing pest management, production efficiency and fruit quality.

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Professor expands scope of data science techniques in new book

9/21/18

John Harlim’s "Data-Driven Computational Methods: Parameter and Operator Estimations" describes data science from the classic mathematical perspective and provides rigorous understanding of many existing new techniques that have been successfully used to analyze data.

Mark Guiltinan

Plant science faculty member named Styer Professor

9/21/18

Mark Guiltinan, professor of plant molecular biology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, recently was named the J. Franklin Styer Professor of Horticultural Botany. The Styer Professorship is intended to supplement departmental support for outstanding faculty and further the scholar's contributions to teaching, research and service.

Rendering of Orchard Road solar array

Project to provide reliable and affordable solar-generated energy to Penn State

9/20/18

A new project will provide 2,500 megawatt-hours of clean, reliable and affordable solar-generated energy annually to the University as part of its diversified energy portfolio. The Penn State Office of Physical Plant and Alternative Energy Development Group (AEDG) announced Sept. 19 the development of a 2 megawatt Advanced Utility-Scale Solar photovoltaic system.

Penn State leading innovation in artificial water channels

9/20/18

The Department of Chemical Engineering’s cutting-edge work in the nascent field of artificial water channels was the subject of a recent Faraday Discussions conference held by the Royal Society of Chemistry and a breakthrough paper in the journal Nature Communications.

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