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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.

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.

Penn State Professor of Architectural Engineering and Lyralux founder, Kevin Houser

Lyralux lights the way for its Dim to Vivid commercial lighting technology

9/20/18

Have you ever noticed that colors start to fade and blend together at lower light levels? Due to how our eyes process color, the dimmer the light source, the less vivid a color appears. This can be a particular challenge for people trying to distinguish colors in low lighting environments like museums and restaurants. Fortunately, Penn State Professor of Architectural Engineering Kevin Houser has developed a technology at Penn State and formed a startup, called Lyralux, to solve this problem.

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.

Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering

Wong honored with ASME's 2018 Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award

9/18/18

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has recognized Penn State engineer Tak-Sing Wong for “the development of novel biologically inspired materials for applications in liquid-repellent coatings, anti-fouling surfaces, and ultra-sensitive molecular sensors,” among other research accomplishments.

Steven Hicks

Clinical and Translational Science Institute program welcomes new scholar

9/18/18

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute has welcomed a new scholar in its program that invests in early-career faculty. Dr. Steven Hicks, assistant professor of pediatrics, was named into the institute’s KL2 Training Program, which gives researchers establishing themselves in their fields dedicated time to help their findings benefit human health more quickly while becoming successful, independent translational scientists.

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Penn State partners with engineering society to create service engineering award

9/17/18

The Service Enterprise Engineering Advisory Board within the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has partnered with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers to develop an international award that celebrates outstanding innovation in service systems engineering.

Vertna Bradley pictured.

SPLICE Festival fuels Behrend professor’s affinity for short films

9/12/18

This past year, Vertna Bradley, an assistant teaching professor of film studies at Penn State Behrend, created the SPLICE Film Fest, an international film and video art festival showcasing short films ranging in length of at least 1 minute to no more than 10 minutes. Held this past summer at the Erie Movie House, the inaugural SPLICE Film Fest received more than 400 entries from 55 different countries.

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