Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed's journey to earning a doctoral degree from Penn State’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications began 5,000 miles away in her hometown of Tamale, Ghana, when she was working at one of the local radio stations after high school.
Penn State’s biomedical engineering undergraduate program stresses practical research experience for its students — which is why Penn State was a perfect fit for Atip Lawanprasert, a 2018 Penn State biomedical engineering alumnus and a current Penn State bioengineering graduate student.
For graduate student Bumgi Min, experience drives his research ideas. It was a chance meeting with North Korean refugees that sparked his interest in refugee communications, and it was a conversation with a student that led Min to his dissertation idea.
Joe Cruz does not have a one-track mind. If he did, he wouldn’t be in his third year of doctoral work in Penn State’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, where he studies politics through the lenses of comic books, film and social media.
Penn State graduate students voted to not be represented by a union according to the tally of votes by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board on April 24. More than 3,800 graduate assistants and trainees were eligible to vote in the election to determine if they wish to be represented by a union.
The Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), recently selected civil engineering doctoral candidate Elnaz Kermani as an ASCE 2017 Outstanding Reviewer.
If you asked Rowland Smith where he got his start in civil engineering, his answer would be rather unexpected — snow forts. From a young age, Smith knew he loved design and problem-solving, but he didn’t know this passion would translate into a highly successful academic and professional career at Penn State.
Anne Pauley was drawn to the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship program at Penn State out of her desire to make a positive impact on the world. The program's goal is to aim to encourage different disciplines across the University to create technology-based solutions for the most compelling problems facing humanity today.
A slippery rough surface (SRS) inspired by both pitcher plants and rice leaves outperforms state-of-the-art liquid-repellent surfaces in water harvesting applications, according to a team of researchers at Penn State and the University of Texas at Dallas.
Carpenter ants infected with a specialized parasitic fungus are not subjected to aggression or isolation from their nest mates, and they continue to share in the colony's food resources until they leave the nest for the last time to die, according to a study led by Penn State researchers.
Recent doctoral graduate Arienne Ferchaud got an idea for her dissertation after binge-watching the TV show "The Walking Dead." Do people who binge-watch a program enjoy it differently than those who watch it week to week? What are the differences and how will show creators respond?
Augmented reality is reviving the educational focus of Penn State's oldest monument on the University Park campus, the Obelisk. An app developed by Department of Geography researchers lets users learn more about the history of each of the Obelisk's 281 stones.
Producing the perfect color images we need and love often requires multiple, heavy lenses so that each color focuses in exactly the same plane. Now Penn State engineers have developed a new theory that solves the problem using a single thin lens comprised of gradient index materials and metasurface layers to properly direct the light.
Civil engineering doctoral candidate Kristin Kersavage has been granted the prestigious Sylvia Alston Graduate Scholarship by the WTS Pennsylvania section.
Much as a frame provides structural support for a house and the chassis provides strength and shape for a car, a team of Penn State engineers believe they have a way to create the structural framework for growing living tissue using an off-the-shelf 3-D printer.
