Douglas Werner, John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering, was recently presented with the 2019 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society.
Karen A. Thole, distinguished professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, has been awarded the 2019 Air Breathing Propulsion Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
This summer, the Penn State DuBois Wildlife Technology Program earned a continued five-year accreditation with the North American Wildlife Technology Association (NAWTA). The program has been accredited by NAWTA for 35 years, and it is the only accredited two-year wildlife technology program in Pennsylvania.
This summer, three College of Information Sciences and Technology students are on the front lines in helping the University protect its digital infrastructure, data and people through their internships with Penn State’s Office of Information Security.
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute's Community-Engaged Research Core is now accepting applications for its 2020-21 Faculty Fellowship Program.
Applications are open for Innovations, a technology development training program of Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Center for Medical Innovation. Innovations supports the translation of biomedical research by providing early-stage education and strategic guidance to faculty, staff and students during the ideation phase of technology development.
Thirty-two members of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications are participating in or being recognized at the 102nd Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications conference Aug. 7-10 in Toronto.
Fifty-four Penn State Berks students received recognition at the Penn State Berks Scholastic Awards Ceremony. The awards presented included the Evan Pugh Scholar Award, the President Sparks Award, and the President’s Freshman Award.
Adi Kadosh, a communication sciences and disorders major, will be the college marshal for the Penn State College of Health and Human Development summer 2019 commencement ceremony.
The processes that happen in the first few feet of soil can have large impacts on agriculture and water resources. To better understand these processes, a team of graduating Penn State geoscience majors mapped the subsurface at a research site in Rothrock State Forest.
Three students in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences participated in Penn State’s Study Away Pittsburgh program, which is designed to give students an immersive semester-long opportunity to study urban sustainability while living in Pittsburgh.
Huiwon Lim, previously a lecturer in the Department of Graphic Design at Iowa State University, will join the faculty of the Graphic Design program within the Stuckeman School as an assistant professor on Aug. 16.
Paola Macias is spending her summer working with Canon as a general affairs intern. A rising senior studying security and risk analysis in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, Macias monitors Genetec, an information security platform that develops software, hardware, and cloud-based services for Canon. She also grants technology access levels to employees, assesses risk for new procedures, and conducts internal auditing on security procedures.
While graduate students and faculty are known for their research work, undergraduates also make significant contributions to the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering’s research portfolio. Some examples can be found in the Artificial Heart and Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Lab, headed by Keefe Manning, associate dean of the Schreyer Honors College and professor of biomedical engineering.
Jared Kehler, who will graduate Aug. 10 and serve as the student marshal for the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications during commencement exercises at the Bryce Jordan Center, made the most of his time at Penn State, completing a major and three minors.
