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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.

2018 GEMS Showcase

Showcase to discuss College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' strategic vision

9/10/18

The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ 2018 GEMS Showcase, “EMS Strategic Vision: An Evening with the Dean and Special Guests,” will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 13 in 114 Steidle Building on Penn State's University Park campus. There will be a reception before the showcase from 6 to 7 p.m. in the lobby of Steidle Building. Both the reception and forum are free and open to the public.

wearable tech, smart phone

Device harvests energy from low-frequency vibrations

8/29/18

A wearable energy-harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm while walking or jogging, according to a team of researchers from Penn State's Materials Research Institute and the University of Utah. The device, about the size of a wristwatch, produces enough power to run a personal health monitoring system.

brain heart made of yarn

Heart-brain connection could be predictive biomarker for epilepsy

8/27/18

Heartbeat irregularities connected to brain activity abnormalities may lead to the ability to predict eventual epileptic seizures in subjects who suffered physical or infectious brain insults, according to Penn State researchers who studied mouse models of cerebral malaria, which often causes epilepsy in those who survive.

Alicyn Rhoades at Flash DSC

Fantastic plastics: Research collaboration could reshape injection molding

7/17/18

Ralph Colby has partnered with two other Penn State researchers, Alicyn Rhoades and Scott Milner, to get a better basic understanding of how plastics cool from a liquid to solid shape in injection molding. Their work, which involves some new techniques, is already helping industry partners.

ZnO-MXene schematic

Sintering atomically thin materials with ceramics now possible

6/29/18

For the first time, researchers have created a nanocomposite of ceramics and a two-dimensional material, opening the door for new designs of nanocomposites with such applications as solid-state batteries, thermoelectrics, varistors, catalysts, chemical sensors and much more.

The Art of Discovery

'Art of Discovery' booth to bring together art and science at Arts Fest

6/25/18

Join Penn State at “The Art of Discovery,” the University’s booth at the Arts Festival, to learn how art detectives use technology to solve art history mysteries; make your own handmade paints the way early humans did hundreds of thousands of years ago; learn about the bizarre science behind zombie ants; explore mankind’s relationship to plastics, and more.

An example of a stochastic flaw observed in Ti-6Al-4V PBFAM builds after HIP

Penn State to lead $1.4M grant to probe flaws in metal additive manufacturing

6/14/18

A team led by Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory, in collaboration with the Center for Innovative Processing thru Direct Digital Deposition, has received a $1.4 million grant by the Air Force Research Laboratory to examine the random flaws that arise during the process of powder bed fusion additive manufacturing.

Jeff Fortin

In Touch With: Jeff Fortin on Industry Partnerships

6/11/18

Jeff Fortin, director of Penn State's Office of Industrial Partnerships, speaks about the University's brand-new building at Innovation Park and how the companies that occupy it will benefit the University and the state.

Graphic representing mechanotargeting

Targeting strategy may open door to better cancer drug delivery

6/11/18

While bioengineers have long used chemical properties of a cell to deliver treatment drugs, a team of Penn State researchers suggest they can use the mechanical properties of diseased cells, such as metastatic cancer cells, to help improve delivery of drug treatments to the targeted cells. The mechanotargeting may one day lead to improved cancer treatments.

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