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Esther Gomez, assistant professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering, Penn State

Gomez receives NSF CAREER award

5/2/18

Esther Gomez, assistant professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering at Penn State, has received the National Science Foundation’sEarly Career (CAREER) award to better understand the mechanobiology of mesenchymal-epithelial transition.

Conrad Tucker with Bill Gates at the Millennium Scholars Program Celebration.

Engineering's Tucker attends Gates Millennium Scholars Program celebration

4/30/18

Conrad Tucker, associate professor of engineering design and industrial and manufacturing engineering, was invited by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to attend the Gates Millennium Scholars Program Celebration on April 24 in Seattle. Although there are more than 20,000 Gates Millennium Scholars and alumni of the program, Tucker was one of only approximately 30 scholars invited to the event.

Emma Rosenthal

Doctoral student in plant pathology receives NSF research grant

4/13/18

Emma Rosenthal, a doctoral student in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, will be able to advance her research interests in plant pathology after receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation. The funding will support Rosenthal's research on bacterial leaf spot, a disease that infects lettuce plants.

Stephanie Cutler

Cutler receives NSF grant to advance engineering education research

3/28/18

Stephanie Cutler, assessment and instructional support specialist for the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education in Penn State's College of Engineering, has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to advance engineering education research through peer review analysis.

rendering of vehicles stopped in traffic with mathematical equations overlaying the graphics

Conquering traffic congestion with mathematics

12/4/17

The National Science Foundation has awarded more than $446,000 for a new collaborative engineering project that will allow drivers to make more informed travel decisions and allow government organizations to better regulate travel within heavily congested major metropolitan areas.

NOLA Mississippi River

Climate change and extreme weather challenge communities to be resilient

10/5/17

Flooding in Texas and again in Louisiana, a category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic hammering Caribbean islands and Florida and, of course, memories of Sandy and Katrina place extreme weather events like hurricanes and the flooding, storm surge and winds that accompany them in the minds of people in the storms' paths, but also forefront in the minds of administrators, first responders, government officials and city planners.

Penn State hosts 15 new NSF graduate researchers

10/3/17

The Graduate School at Penn State is pleased to host 15 new National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award recipients for the 2017-18 academic year.

Chad Hanna demonstrates gravitational waves via ripples in water

New gravitational wave hits Earth

9/27/17

For the first time, three detectors have tracked the gravitational waves emitted by a merger of two black holes -- a critical new capability that allows scientists to more closely locate a gravitational wave's birthplace in space. Gravitational waves are ripples in space and time created when two massive, compact objects such as black holes merge.

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Penn State’s NSF I-Corps program seeks applications by Sept. 15 and Oct. 15

9/1/17

The National Science Foundation has joined in supporting Penn State’s goal of taking more of its discoveries to market by awarding Penn State a five-year, $500,000 Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant to establish the Invent Penn State I-Corps Site in collaboration with Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s TechCelerator, Happy Valley LaunchBox, and Invent Penn State’s Innovation Hubs.

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