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Internship takes 'hands-on' to a whole different level

7/18/18

Penn State alumna Emily Peacock embraced her post-graduate public affairs internship and tackled physical challenges side by side with ROTC trainees while providing leadership in her second year with the program.

From left to right: Sarah Zappe, Joseph Tise and Kristen Hochstedt in front of Old Main

Graduate student paper on research experience for undergraduates wins ASEE award

7/17/18

A group of Penn State faculty and graduate student authors recently was awarded the 2018 Best Student Paper Award from the Graduate Studies Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. The paper on the Department of Chemical Engineering’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program is titled “Lessons Learned from a Chemical Engineering REU: The Importance of Training Graduate Students Who Are Supervising REU Students.”

Keeping Pace with Technology

'Keeping pace' with technology

7/17/18

Praveen Veerabhadrappa, assistant professor of kinesiology at Penn State Berks, along with several recent graduates, just completed an important physical exercise study verifying the accuracy of the Apple Watch 1 in recording steps during walking and jogging.

Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park - Image © Albert Vecerka/Esto, courtesy Weiss/Manfredi

Two Stuckeman School faculty members to lead Case Study Investigation

7/17/18

Penn State Stuckeman School faculty members Hong Wu and Lisa DuRussel were selected by the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) to lead teams for the Case Study Investigation (CSI) program. CSI is a unique research collaboration that matches faculty-student research teams with design firms to document the benefits of exemplary high-performing landscape projects.

Dr. Thomas Ma poses for a photo, with a lab workbench and equipment in the background.

New chair of Medicine has big plans for the role

7/17/18

When Dr. Thomas Ma first assumed the role of chair of the Department of Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, he wasted no time making changes.

Ellie Milewski

Fine arts acting student produces staged reading of her own full-length play

7/17/18

Ellie Milewski, a junior in Penn State’s bachelor of fine arts acting program, made waves this past February when she, in collaboration with the Penn State School of Theatre, produced a staged reading of her first full-length play. The play, titled "27," tells the story of an unlikely friendship between an elderly man dying of Alzheimer’s and a 10-year-old girl struggling with dyslexia.

Global Programs announces spring 2018 Travel Grant recipients

7/17/18

Global Programs has announced the spring 2018 Travel Grant recipients. The program supports faculty travel related to developing global awareness, global literacy and global competency among our undergraduate population. Graduate students may apply for the grants for assistance with travel to international conferences with the goal of promoting and supporting global leadership in scholarship and international engagements.

Aasheesh Kolli

Engineering's Kolli honored for dissertation research in computer architecture

7/16/18

Aasheesh Kolli, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State, recently received the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award for his dissertation at the University of Michigan, titled “Architecting Persistent Memory Systems.”

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