Mauricio Terrones, distinguished professor of physics, chemistry, and materials science and engineering at Penn State, has been selected as the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics.
A gift from Roger Liang and Annie Kuo will establish the first named professorship within Penn State’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Ali Memari, professor of civil and architectural engineering, Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction, and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center at Penn State, was recently named the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Architectural Engineering, produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Jean Paul Allain has been named the inaugural head of the recently established Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State, effective July 1. He will hold the Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Plasma Medicine in the Huck Institutes for Life Sciences, as well as the positions of an Institute for Cyber Science faculty co-hire and professor of biomedical engineering by courtesy.
At its May 18-21 conference and expo in Orlando, Florida, the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers partnered with Penn State to recognize the innovative techniques organizations are using to improve the performance of service industries.
Penn State chemical engineering senior Bailyn Bench recently received the 2019 American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Outstanding Senior Award, in recognition of her outstanding scholastic, leadership and service achievements.
Backed by the resources of Invent Penn State’s statewide network of innovation hubs, Penn State New Kensington is partnering with Westmoreland County and the city of New Kensington to revive the community through research, education and entrepreneurship.
WEPAN, a national organization, works to increase the number and advance the prominence of diverse communities of women in engineering and annually awards programs that demonstrate excellence in this shared mission. The Women in Engineering Initiative Award specifically recognizes programs that serve as models for other institutions.
Seven technology startups pitched their business concepts to a panel of judges, with hopes of winning a cash prize of up to $10,000 from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, on May 21 at Innovation Park in State College.
A policy change is set to take effect this summer outlining how Penn State intervenes when students encounter academic difficulty, with the hope of providing better routes to recovery.
Researchers say burning a mixture of coal and crop residue biomass might provide a cost-effective, net carbon-negative electricity source that can be scaled to commercial levels in China in order to meet global temperature objectives by mid-century.
From Sept. 16 to 18, Penn State, in partnership with Project Drawdown, will hold the first international conference to learn about and discuss the science underlying Drawdown’s portfolio of 100 solutions aimed at reversing global warming.
Penn State has a long tradition of Fulbright success. Nine Penn State faculty members have been awarded for the 2019-20 cycle.
Douglas Werner, the John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering, recently received the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society's Computational Electromagnetics Award.
Qiming Zhang, distinguished professor of electrical engineering, has been named the recipient of a 2019 Humboldt Research Award. Zhang will use the resources provided by the award to develop a new cooling method known as high-efficiency solid-state electrocaloric cooling.
