Office for General Education announces Integrative Studies Seed Grant awards
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The Integrative Studies Seed Grant Program, offered through the Penn State Office for General Education, will support 71 different course development projects this summer. In response to the large volume of highly qualified proposals, the budget was generously increased by more than 50 percent by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Undergraduate Education.
Big data, big science: Students share 'big data' research at poster session
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Data comes in all shapes and sizes -- from text-based tweets to satellite imagery. The variability of that data was on display at the recent Big Data Social Science (BDSS) poster session.
Black History Month Scholar's program highlights faculty research
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Panelists will share their research in three panel discussions for the Black History Month PSU Scholar’s Program, highlighting scholarship by Penn State faculty members of African descent, Feb. 21 and 22 in Pattee Library's Foster Auditorium at University Park.
Giebink to explore new optical materials using NSF CAREER Award
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Electrical engineer Chris Giebink has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project, “Non-Hermitian Organic Photonics.”
College of Engineering seed grants support multidisciplinary research efforts
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Penn State's College of Engineering recently awarded funding to four projects through its Multidisciplinary Research Seed Grants program.
Researchers look at ways to improve Pennsylvania bridges
| psu.edu
Every day, millions of Pennsylvania motorists drive on or under one of the Commonwealth’s more than 22,000 bridges without ever thinking about its safety and durability. Researchers at Penn State, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, however, are thinking about it and are trying to improve the bridges in the process.
College of Engineering welcomes new faculty, continues expansion
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The College of Engineering proudly welcomes the new faculty members who have joined Penn State for the 2016-17 academic year.
Penn State Harrisburg Summer STEM program wows high school students
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Penn State Harrisburg's two-week Summer STEM Enrichment Program introduced high school students to the different scientific disciplines involved in STEM, helping to give them a better sense of what major they might pursue, what careers are available, and what learning at the university level would be like.
Engineering's Collins, Giebink honored for teaching excellence
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Robert Collins, associate professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, and Chris Giebink, Charles K. Etner Early Career Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State, were recently selected to receive the Joel and Ruth Spira Excellence in Teaching Award. Established with an endowment by the Lutron Foundation in honor of the company's founders, the award recognizes individuals who excel in the classroom by helping students learn, understand and apply the fundamentals of engineering.
Engineering faculty appointed to early career and development professorships
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Eight faculty members in the Penn State College of Engineering were recently appointed to early career and development professorships.
Solar cell research funded by U.S. Department of Energy
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Fixed-tilt concentrating photovoltaic panels that will deliver significantly more energy than conventional photovoltaic solar panels are the aim of Penn State's solar energy research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for $2.9 million.
Researchers study inexpensive process to clean water in developing nations
| phys.org
What would happen if a common tree had the potential to turn cloudy, contaminated water into clean, safe drinking water for millions in need? Penn State researchers are hoping to find out using the seeds of the Moringa oleifera tree.
Once a frozen haven, climate-driven rising temperatures are rapidly thawing the Arctic permafrost, posing a major threat to communities and infrastructure. Researchers are investigating how these changes will transform rivers, with potential consequences for erosion, sediment transport, and the entire Arctic landscape. Additionally, their project incorporates art to communicate these critical findings in an engaging way. Listen to the podcast.
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