Faculty Penn State scientist plays key role in $46M artificial blood research program 03/27/2023 Penn State Professor Dipanjan Pan co-invented ErythroMer, an artificial oxygen carrier, that will be used in a $46 million project to develop an artificial whole blood product |
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Research Geography Coffee Hour talk to explore microorganisms and their impact on life 03/27/2023 Seth Bordenstein, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Endowed Chair in Microbiome Sciences and professor of biology and entomology at Penn State, will offer insights into his research on microbiomes and their impact on the world in his talk, “Why We Look Down (To the Microbes) For Wonder, Impact and Discovery,” on March 31. |
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Faculty Climate Solutions Symposium to take place at Penn State on May 22 and 23 03/23/2023 Penn State will host the Climate Solutions Symposium on May 22 and 23 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. |
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Faculty EarthTalks: Lauren McKeown to discuss formation of 'spiders' on Mars, Europa 03/22/2023 Lauren McKeown, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will discuss her experiments to test the formation of Martian “spiders” and present a new hypothesis for the formation of Europa’s Manannán spider, in her talk "Spiders on Mars, Europa and in the Laboratory: Insights for Icy Planetary Surface Processes through Analog Experiments” at 4 p.m., Monday, March 27. |
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Graduate Student Online engineering degrees help students and alumni find career success 03/22/2023 In Renee Dorer’s job with a jet engine manufacturing company, her work involved modeling fire in combustors, a problem that involves both thermodynamics and turbulent air flow. |
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Faculty Trio of Penn State researchers tapped to lead AGU’s natural hazards section 03/20/2023 As Guido Cervone takes the reins as president of the natural hazards section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) he brings with him decades of experience in using machine learning, remote sensing and increasing representation to forecast, respond and mitigate dangers from natural hazards. |
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Faculty Penn State team awarded National Science Foundation I-Corps grant 03/16/2023 The biggest question an entrepreneur faces is a simple one: Are there enough potential customers to turn my big idea into a business? A trio of Penn State researchers were selected recently for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National I-Corps Program to find an answer for their own big idea. |
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Research Researcher to image lab earthquake formation, precursory signals with ultrasound 03/15/2023 Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, and scientists currently rely on seismic hazard maps to predict the likelihood of an earthquake to strike a particular region. |
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Graduate Student Energy and mineral engineering graduate student awarded fellowship grant 03/15/2023 Elham Rahimi, a graduate student in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, received the SME Ph.D. Fellowship grant from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME). |
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Faculty New model provides improved air-quality predictions in fire-prone areas 03/14/2023 A team of Penn State researchers developed a deep learning model that provides improved predictions of air quality in wildfire-prone areas and can differentiate between wildfires and non-wildfires. |