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Federal research significant in environmental rule-making

4/30/19

Federally sponsored science plays a more significant role in bringing together stakeholders and facilitating environmental governance debates than all other types of research, according to an international team of researchers.

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Developing an engineering design simulator for risk-related decision making

4/29/19

Jeremy Gernand, assistant professor of environmental health and safety engineering, recently received a Gladys Snyder Education Grant from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences to develop a computer-based simulator to give undergraduate engineering students experience with the risk-related implications of system design decisions.

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Huang wins Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D Scholars Award

4/25/19

Shengxi Huang, assistant professor of electrical engineering, recently was named a winner of the Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D (WiSTEM2D) Scholars Award. She will receive $150,000 in funding and three years of mentorship from Johnson & Johnson toward her research on ubiquitous biosensing platforms.

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New research shows promise for success of underrepresented scholars in STEM

4/25/19

With the goal of preparing scholars from underrepresented groups to succeed in graduate and professional programs, Penn State, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) partnered to develop undergraduate programs aimed at increasing retention and academic performance of historically racially underrepresented undergraduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

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Bacteria uses viral weapon against other bacteria

4/25/19

Bacterial cells use both a virus — traditionally thought to be an enemy — and a prehistoric viral protein to kill other bacteria that competes with it for food according to an international team of researchers who believe this has potential implications for future infectious disease treatment.

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IBM donates system to Penn State to advance AI research

4/24/19

IBM will donate a system based on the technology in the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Summit and Sierra, to Penn State, giving researchers here a chance to work with the same computing architecture that handles research studies at the government’s national laboratories.

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New sensor detects rare metals used in smartphones

4/23/19

A more efficient and cost-effective way to detect lanthanides, the rare earth metals used in smartphones and other technologies, could be possible with a new protein-based sensor that changes its fluorescence when it binds to these metals.

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