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Seed grants to support opioid research announced

9/13/18

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute, in collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, has awarded over $200,000 in funding to support 10 new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at combating the opioid epidemic.

schematic of heart pump

Building a safer heart pump

9/13/18

Blood pumps are increasingly a bridge-to-transplant for patients with end-stage heart disease or heart failure, but blood clots and strokes can put patients in peril before they receive a donor heart. Now a four-year, $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health may solve this problem and perhaps open the pumps' use for less-sick patients who could benefit from them.

Stephen Richards recording data behind the Berkey Creamery counter

Engineering scholars investigate service system challenges on campus

9/13/18

Undergraduate industrial engineering students can apply what they learn in the classroom to real-world service system challenges by being selected as a Service Enterprise Engineering 360 scholar. Through collaborations with on-campus businesses such as the Penn State Berkey Creamery and Beaver Stadium, scholars have the opportunity to collect data and create formulas that could provide long-term improvements for these services.

Cody Heaton gets sworn in as UPUA President.

UPUA president uses engineering skills to be a better leader

9/12/18

Cody Heaton, an industrial engineering senior, uses his engineering skills to be a better leader. Heaton balances a variety of extracurriculars while serving as the University Park Undergraduate Association President and taking classes.

Ribbon Cutting at the GreenBuild Duplex

Penn State students help create affordable, sustainable housing in State College

9/10/18

Owning a home is often considered part of living the American Dream. But as housing costs have risen, that part of the dream has become more and more unattainable. Instead of just talking about the problem, Penn State architecture and engineering students and faculty decided to become part of the solution and have received a USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) Central PA Chapter Leadership award for their efforts.

Greenland Ics Sheet

$490K grant funds unique Greenland glacier study

9/10/18

A more comprehensive way to understand the fracturing of Greenland's Helheim Glacier may now be possible thanks to a $489,000 grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to a team of Penn State researchers to launch a feasibility study.

Research Unplugged

Fall Research Unplugged speaker series to offer weekly talks starting Oct. 4

9/7/18

Research Unplugged, the popular series of stimulating conversation with Penn State researchers, is presented in collaboration with Penn State’s Office of Government and Community Relations and will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. each Thursday in October in Schlow Library’s Downsbrough Community Room.

Guha Manogharan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State

Manogharan named outstanding researcher in additive manufacturing

9/7/18

In recognition of his exceptional contributions to the field of additive manufacturing, Guha Manogharan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, has been awarded the International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award.

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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