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Gianina Taylor Baker

Learning Outcomes Assessment Forum scheduled for Nov. 6

9/21/18

The Penn State Office of Planning and Assessment will hold the Learning Outcomes Assessment Forum from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Nittany Lion Inn on Penn State's University Park campus. The deadline to register is Oct. 25.

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Professor expands scope of data science techniques in new book

9/21/18

John Harlim’s "Data-Driven Computational Methods: Parameter and Operator Estimations" describes data science from the classic mathematical perspective and provides rigorous understanding of many existing new techniques that have been successfully used to analyze data.

Mark Guiltinan

Plant science faculty member named Styer Professor

9/21/18

Mark Guiltinan, professor of plant molecular biology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, recently was named the J. Franklin Styer Professor of Horticultural Botany. The Styer Professorship is intended to supplement departmental support for outstanding faculty and further the scholar's contributions to teaching, research and service.

The Hunt for Tyrannus Arachnis, The Earth’s Largest Ancient Spider”

Penn State Scranton science lecturer pens book on Earth’s largest ancient spider

9/20/18

Tom Eveland, an adjunct lecturer in science at Penn State Scranton, recently published “The Hunt for Tyrannus Arachnis, The Earth’s Largest Ancient Spider.” The 50-page, seven-chapter science tome was designed as a supplemental guide for science classes from high school through college and aims to show students how science and scientists work.

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Richard Ross to discuss art in activism at Penn State Harrisburg

9/20/18

The Criminal Justice Club at Penn State Harrisburg will host photographer, researcher, and professor of art Richard Ross from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in the Morrison Gallery in the college’s library. Ross will discuss his book “Juvenile in Justice,” and using art in activism.

Penn State leading innovation in artificial water channels

9/20/18

The Department of Chemical Engineering’s cutting-edge work in the nascent field of artificial water channels was the subject of a recent Faraday Discussions conference held by the Royal Society of Chemistry and a breakthrough paper in the journal Nature Communications.

Andrew Read

Andrew Read named director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences

9/20/18

Andrew Read has been appointed director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State effective Jan. 1, 2019. Read is an Evan Pugh University Professor of Biology and Entomology, Eberly Professor of Biotechnology and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics.

Alberto Ibarguen

Heard on Campus: Alberto Ibargüen at the Penn State Forum

9/19/18

"[After the Gutenberg printing press] a hundred years passed before people figured out how to trust information again. The flood of information fundamentally changed ways of thinking and allowed society to move from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance and Reformation. We’re at a Gutenberg moment."

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