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Red brick building in New Kensington

Retrofitting roofs in Pennsylvania's 'Rust Belt'

6/5/18

Esther Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and architectural engineering, was awarded a $25,000 grant from Penn State’s Institutes of Energy and the Environment to design and test a new roofing composite. The project is part of a cross-institutional, multidisciplinary initiative led by Penn State New Kensington’s Corner Launchbox focused on refreshing the community’s image and economy.

Living Fence Cambodia

Agricultural diversification: Empowering women in Cambodia with 'wild gardens'

6/5/18

Teaching Cambodian farmers — mainly women who manage small farms — ways to diversify their operations for improved nutrition and extra income is one aspect of a multidisciplinary project led by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and called "Women in Agriculture Network (WAgN): Cambodia."

Collins-Ireland-2018

Researcher collaborates with scientists in Ireland as part of Fulbright program

6/5/18

Linda Collins, distinguished professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and director of the Methodology Center, spent two weeks at the National University of Ireland Galway to present and collaborate on research on MOST, a multiphase optimization strategy she has developed over the past few decades.

Dual-purpose wound dressing supported by $2 million NIH grant

6/5/18

Development of wound dressings made of semi-synthetic biomaterials will be the focus of a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Once developed, this new kind of wound dressing would promote faster and more complete healing for the millions of people who suffer from skin wounds.

Microscope image of a cross-section of a waveguide array

Capturing light in a waveguide array

6/4/18

Cheaper and more efficient photonic devices, such as lasers, optical fibers and other light sources, may be possible with confined light that is unaffected by imperfections in the material that confines it, according to new research.

Two young girls working on a paper.

Preschool program preps kids for academic success through elementary school

6/4/18

A program that helps low-income parents prepare their children for school has benefits that extend beyond kindergarten and into into third grade, according to Penn State researchers. The researchers found that the preschoolers of parents who participated in the program performed better academically, acquired better social emotional skills and needed fewer additional school services when they were in third grade.

Penn State researcher Christelle Wauthier stands on a cooled lava flow

Childhood dream to reality: ICS co-hire and volcanologist researches her passion

6/4/18

From an early age, Christelle Wauthier was drawn to volcanoes — now, she's researching these fiery phenomena through a shared faculty appointment in the Institute for CyberScience and the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. She uses a mix of innovative, high-performance computing research methods, as well as more traditional approaches, to advance our understanding of volcanoes.

Restored statue platform with standing moai on the south coast of Rapa Nui. Note that one of the moai is adorned with a red scoria pukao.

Hats on for Easter Island statues

6/4/18

How do you put a 13-ton hat on a giant statue? That's what a team of researchers is trying to figure out with their study of Easter Island statues and the red hats that sit atop some of them.

truck spraying water

Oil and gas wastewater as dust suppressant less than ideal

5/30/18

At the least, wastewater from oil and gas drilling should be treated in a waste treatment facility before it is used on dirt roads to suppress dust or deice roads. At the best, affordable, nontoxic dust suppressants should be developed and used, according to a multidisciplinary team of researchers.

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