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Faculty Space Grant accepting grant applications for education, research and outreach 09/03/2020 The NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) is accepting applications for its 2020-21 competitive mini-grant program. |
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Faculty To make a better sensor, just add noise 09/03/2020 Adding noise to enhance a weak signal is a sensing phenomenon common in the animal world but unusual in manmade sensors. Now Penn State researchers have added a small amount of background noise to enhance very weak signals in a light source too dim to sense. |
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Faculty Bacastow appointed to US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation board of directors 09/01/2020 Todd Bacastow, teaching professor in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, has been appointed to the board of directors of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) for a three-year term. |
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Student Students learn the power of collective voice while advocating for justice 08/31/2020 Students discovered the power of community voice while working as interns over the summer through a social justice program facilitated by the Penn State Center Philadelphia, a Penn State Outreach service. |
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Graduate Student Wang earns gold graduate student award for work on piezoelectric discovery 08/31/2020 Bo Wang, who earned his doctorate in materials science and engineering from Penn State in August 2020, is the recipient of a Gold Graduate Student Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS). |
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Graduate Student 18 new NSF graduate researchers join the ranks at Penn State 08/31/2020 Eighteen students were named National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recipients for the 2020-21 academic year. |
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Faculty Seminars to examine climate science, carbon emissions at Penn State 08/28/2020 The Earth System Science Center has announced the lineup for its fall 2020 Climate Dynamics seminar series. |
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Research An improved wearable, stretchable gas sensor using nanocomposites 08/27/2020 A stretchable, wearable gas sensor for environmental sensing has been developed and tested by researchers at Penn State, Northeastern University and five universities in China. |
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Faculty Weather and Climate Analytics certificate program graduates first students 08/27/2020 Barbara DeClerck knows which way the wind blows. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service, DeClerck provides daily wind forecasts to help airplanes land on time at one of the busiest airports in the world. |
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Faculty Security center announces Fall 2020 Grant Program 08/27/2020 The Penn State Center for Security Research and Education (CSRE) is announcing its Fall 2020 Grant Program to support security-related scholarship and educational programs at Penn State. University faculty and researchers are eligible to apply by Nov. 2. |