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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.

Andrew Read

Andrew Read named director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences

9/20/18

Andrew Read has been appointed director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State effective Jan. 1, 2019. Read is an Evan Pugh University Professor of Biology and Entomology, Eberly Professor of Biotechnology and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics.

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Young children's oral bacteria may predict obesity

9/19/18

Weight gain in early childhood is related to the composition of oral bacteria of two-year-old children, suggesting that this understudied aspect of a child’s microbiota could serve as an early indicator for childhood obesity.

Infrared image of neutron star from Hubble Space Telescope

The surprising environment of an enigmatic neutron star

9/17/18

An unusual infrared emission detected by the Hubble Space Telescope from a nearby neutron star could indicate that the pulsar has features never before seen. The observation could help astronomers better understand the evolution of neutron stars.

Clinical variability of disease-associated mutations can be explained by other variants in the genetic background

Family genetics vital for understanding autism progression

9/7/18

A new study led by researchers at Penn State reveals that the total amount of rare mutations — deletions, duplications or other changes to the DNA sequence — in a person’s genome can explain why individuals with a disease-associated mutation can have vastly different symptoms.

Patrick Dudas giving Python coding presentation

Python coding workshops to fill gap for research community

9/7/18

Institute for CyberScience staff members will host a series of workshops this fall to benefit researchers who are eager to improve their computer programming skills or even start developing a new interest in programming. The workshops, which are free and open to all Penn State faculty, staff and students, will focus on the Python programming language.

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