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Penn State and Geisinger team up to establish new program for graduate students

4/27/17

A new $2.4 million program for graduate students seeking to contribute to breakthrough discoveries in medicine and biology has been established at Penn State. The new Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge Training Program brings together Pennsylvania data scientists, biomedical researchers, and life-science researchers at Penn State and the Geisinger Genomic Medicine Institute to accelerate advances in the biomedical and life sciences.

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Institute for Information Policy examines the social effects of 'big data'

4/4/17

With frequently evolving technology of computer access and smart phone capabilities and a particularly unpredictable White House, Penn State’s Institute for Information Policy (IIP) is as important today as it has ever been in its 20-year history. The IIP conducts innovative research and promotes programs that examine the social effects of information technology.

Hui Yang, Harold and Inge Marcus Career Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Yang co-edits new book on health care analytics

3/30/17

Harold and Inge Marcus Career Associate Professor Hui Yang is the co-editor of a new book that focuses on statistical and operational research methods and tools that are being used to improve the health care industry.

Dr. Xiang Zhang, associate professor at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology.

IST professor awarded NSF grant to analyze big data

1/30/17

Xiang Zhang, associate professor in Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology , has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to pursue research of mining large and complex networks. By developing new tools to decipher big data, Zhang plans to draw more actionable conclusions from extremely large data collections, like the information captured from billions of Facebook users.

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Penn State, Big Data Hub selected for NTIS Joint Venture Partnership

10/24/16

Penn State, through its participation in the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Technical Information Service (NTIS) to enter into a Joint Venture Partnership. The Hub will join 34 other leaders in information technology and services selected for the Partnership to promote economic growth and solve substantial challenges in delivering critical public services.

Conrad Tucker

Engineer receives 2016 IBM Faculty Award

10/24/16

Conrad Tucker, whose work with virtual and augmented realities has been gaining national publicity, was recently named a recipient of the 2016 IBM Faculty Award.

Honavar leads new big data and discovery informatics center at Penn State

Penn State, Rutgers win grant to create Virtual Data Collaboratory

10/13/16

Penn State has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Penn State and Rutgers University, in partnership with several other institutions, to develop, deploy, and evaluate the Virtual Data Collaboratory, a distributed data infrastructure to support data intensive science.

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Walking and talking behaviors may help predict epidemics and trends

6/6/16

Mobile phone data may reveal an underlying mathematical connection between how we move and how we communicate that could make it easier to predict how diseases -- and even ideas -- spread through a population, according to an international team of researchers.

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In human development research, big data could mean better results

3/24/16

While there is no Hubble telescope gathering data about the universe of human development, projects to make large amounts of information -- big data -- more accessible to developmental researchers could bring behavioral science's biggest questions into focus, according to a Penn State psychologist.

Exploring big data's potential for the Northeast

11/3/15

Penn State is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst on a Columbia University-led, $1.25 million project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to share data, tools and ideas for leveraging big data to address pressing societal challenges facing the northeastern U.S. and the world.

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Penn State offers 'Big Data' undergraduate major

9/15/15

An innovative, interdisciplinary undergraduate major in social data analytics is now offered through the Department of Political Science in Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts. Undergraduate majors will work with "big data" in the rapidly growing field of data science.

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