On April 3, five interdisciplinary teams of students participated in the final pitches round of the IdeaMakers Challenge. Hosted by the College of Information Sciences and Technology during Penn State Startup Week, the challenge tasked student teams representing two or more majors to pitch an idea that aims to solve a problem using information technology.
The 2019 Nelson W. Taylor Lecture Series in Materials Science and Engineering will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Thursday, April 11 in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Freeman Auditorium on Penn State’s University Park campus. The theme of this year’s lecture series is “Materials from First Principles.”
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and advocate for the education and advancement of traditionally underrepresented groups in STEM fields, will deliver the commencement address for the spring 2019 Eberly College of Science undergraduate graduation ceremony.
A protein complex that is involved in nearly every step in the regulatory control of gene expression in cells has now been shown also to play a key role in clearing potential traffic jams in the production of RNA.
In an effort to prevent the spread of some of the world's most lethal diseases, an international research team spanning five continents and including scientists from Penn State will study bats in Australia, Bangladesh, Madagascar and Ghana.
This month's Institute for CyberScience seminar will feature a panel of experts on April 11 who will discuss possible positive and negative changes AI — artificial intelligence — may have on healthcare and medicine.
Janet Melnick, associate professor of teaching and field coordinator of human development and family studies at Penn State Scranton, and Joel Waters, academic adviser in biology in the Eberly College of Science, and previously in communications science and disorders (CSD) in the College of Health and Human Development, have been selected to receive the 2019 Penn State Excellence in Advising Award.
Six Penn State faculty members -- Andrew Baxter, Jacqueline Bortiatynski, Liliana Naydan, Sarah K. Rich, John Roth and Jennifer Zosh -- have received the 2019 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Five Penn State faculty members -- Michael Axtell, Paola (Giuli) Dussias, Joan Redwing, Christopher Reed and Marcos Rigol -- have received 2019 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement.
A free presentation titled “The Penn State NASA Suborbital Rocket Program for Astronomy” will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in 100 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus.
Increased human activity around one of Africa’s most iconic ecosystems is “squeezing the wildlife in its core,” damaging habitat, and disrupting the migration routes of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle, according to an international study that included a researcher at Penn State.
A new genetics and genealogy curriculum co-developed by Nina Jablonski, Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology and director of the Center for Human Evolution and Diversity in the College of the Liberal Arts, will be featured on PBS' "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." on April 9. The State Theatre in State College will host a local celebration on April 7.
To commemorate its 10th anniversary, Penn State's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds will host a celebration on April 2, with three sessions of talks and panel discussions for technical, academic and public audiences.
Rodney Allen Trice's "Walk a Mile..." project aims to use immersive technology to spark empathy and conversations among diverse audiences. It won the 2019 Open Innovation Challenge.
Jason Wright, an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and member of the University's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, has been named the recipient of the 2019 Drake Award by the SETI Institute.
