Research Tiny swimming donuts deliver the goods 10/30/2019 Bacteria and other swimming microorganisms evolved to thrive in challenging environments, and researchers struggle to mimic their unique abilities for biomedical technologies, but fabrication challenges created a manufacturing bottleneck. |
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Faculty Penn State advisers, directors recognized for publishing successes 10/29/2019 Three Penn State advising professionals -- including one in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences -- recently earned awards from NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising, at the organization's yearly conference. |
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Faculty Penn State geoscientist contributes expertise to new Smithsonian exhibit 10/24/2019 When Erin DiMaggio was an undergraduate student, she had a summer internship with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Little did the 19-year-old know then that one day she would help develop a permanent exhibit for the museum. |
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Faculty Renowned carbon capture technology expert Klaus Lackner to speak at Penn State 10/23/2019 Renowned carbon capture technology expert Klaus Lackner will speak at the next EarthTalks seminar at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, in 112 Walker Building on Penn State's University Park campus. |
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Graduate Student Student startup Innovation Weather sold to WeatherOptics 10/23/2019 Nathan Lis and Andrew Moffitt always knew they had an interest in the science of weather. It took a class at Penn State to convince them they could be entrepreneurs in the field. |
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Faculty Center for Immersive Experiences set to debut, serving researchers and students 10/22/2019 Penn State will be equipped to meet the needs of students, faculty, and a society at large that is progressively more reliant on immersive technology with the opening of the Center for Immersive Experiences (CIE) on the University Park campus. |
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Faculty Seed grant funding available for energy, environmental research projects 10/22/2019 The Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) announced the availability of seed grant funds intended to foster basic and applied interdisciplinary energy and environmental research. |
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Graduate Student Fengyuan Zhang receives 2019 Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate Fellowship 10/22/2019 Penn State doctoral student Fengyuan Zhang was awarded the Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate Fellowship in petroleum engineering at the Society of Petroleum Engineers' (SPE) Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 in Calgary, Canada. |
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Research Biological material boosts solar cell performance 10/21/2019 Next-generation solar cells that mimic photosynthesis with biological material may give new meaning to the term "green technology." |
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Faculty Distant Suns, Distant Worlds 10/21/2019 The habitable zone is a region within a solar system--a distance not too close and not too far from a sun--where a planet would have the conditions necessary to have liquid water on its surface, an important requirement for the existence of carbon-based life as we know it. |