Researchers examine role of MRI imaging in concussion diagnosis
11/11/15
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center researchers are studying the use of MRI imaging techniques to aid in the diagnosis of sports-related concussions.
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NSF funds a unique program to train graduate STEM students
5/11/15
A curriculum in density-functional theory (DFT) for graduate students in STEM fields is the goal of a National Science Foundation grant of nearly $3 million over five years awarded to a team of Penn State faculty.
New center expands materials research partnerships with industry
3/6/14
A new Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics, supported by the National Science Foundation and co-located at Penn State and North Carolina State University, will build on and expand the research capabilities of Penn State's long-running Center for Dielectrics Studies.
Metamaterials manipulate light on a microchip
11/26/12
Using a combination of the new tools of metamaterials and transformation optics, engineers at Penn State have developed designs for miniaturized optical devices that can be used in chip-based optical integrated circuits, the equivalent of the integrated electronic circuits that make possible computers and cellphones. In a paper in a new online journal, Light: Science and Applications, published by Nature Publishing Group, Douglas Werner, professor of electrical engineering, and his postdoctoral researcher Qi Wu and doctoral student Jeremiah Turpin present a unified theory for designing practical devices on a single platform using the new field of transformation optics.
New public-private partnership aims to help revitalize manufacturing
8/17/12
Penn State will be part of a new public-private partnership aimed at revitalizing American manufacturing and encouraging companies to invest in the United States. The new partnership, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), is a consortium of research universities, community colleges and non-profit organizations from Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and manufacturing firms nationwide.
New metamaterials device focuses sound waves like a camera lens
8/13/12
In a cover article in The Journal of Applied Physics, a team of Penn State researchers has designed and computationally tested a type of manmade metamaterial capable for the first time of manipulating a variety of acoustic waves with one simple device.
Innovative nanoparticle purification system uses magnetic fields.
10/26/11
A new system that uses magnetism to purify hybrid magnetic nanoparticles may significantly broaden their potential medical uses, say Penn State inventors Mary Beth Williams and Raymond Schaak.
Penn State's Center for Language Science studies benefits of the bilingual brain
10/12/11
With 15 faculty members at Penn State and a major grant from the NSF's Partnership for International Research and Education, the Center for Language Science is using fMRI and other tools to fathom the bilingual brain at work.
Materials Characterization Lab gets state-of-the-art mass spectrometer
3/29/10
A mass spectrometer that will help researchers interpret and understand the history of the Earth system will join other instruments in the Penn State's multi-user Materials Characterization Laboratory, thanks to a $724,000 grant through the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Program.
Talk to focus on materials research
10/19/09
Carlo Pantano, director of the Materials Research Institute (MRI), will present "Future and Capabilities of Materials at Penn State" at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, in 112 Walker Building. The event is free and open to the public. Pantano will talk about the MRI's capabilities, current activities and future plans. The presentation is sponsored by the student chapter of ASM International, the materials information society.
Penn State receives MRI for Social & Life Sciences Imaging Center
12/10/08
A giant magnet, recently delivered to campus, will become the core of the new Human MRI Facility when the Siemens Magnetom Trio 3T -- a 3-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine -- is installed in Chandlee Laboratory on the University Park campus. The machine is the latest in clinical human MRI technology and joins components of the Penn State Bioengineering and Huck Institutes Magnetic Resonance Center's research equipment to form the Social and Life Sciences Imaging Center (SLIC).
The Medical Minute: MRI myths and misconceptions
3/18/08
Since its development in the mid 1970s, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, has grown into a mainstream diagnostic imaging tool used in a wide variety of conditions. The unique ability of MRI to demonstrate the anatomy, and more recently the function of soft tissues in the body, continues to find new application in patient care, according to the latest edition of The Medical Minute, a service of the Penn State Hershey Medical Center.