Penn State engineers on multiple major projects funded by federal health agency
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Penn State has been named as a sub-awardee on four teams selected for funding by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), with more than $4 million supporting the work at Penn State. Three of the projects are funded through the ARPA-H Building Resilient Environments for Air and Total Health (BREATHE) and aim to enhance indoor air quality, and one of the projects is funded through the ARPA-H Personalized Regenerative Immunocompetent Nanotechnology Tissue (PRINT) program and aims to bioprint organs on demand.
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PNAS announces six 2025 Cozzarelli Prize recipients
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has named the 2025 Cozzarelli Prize winners and finalists. Kayalvizhi Sadayappan and IEE faculty member Li Li were among the finalists for their research examining rising riverine heat waves.
Engineering professor recognized by journal for urban building energy research
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Wangda Zuo, Penn State professor of architectural engineering, is part of a team of researchers who was recently recognized by the journal Energy and Buildings for work that “withstands the test of time.”
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Abandoned Pennsylvania mines and waste-heat recycling could make the state’s massive new data centers far more sustainable
As more data centers are proposed across the state, residents and policymakers are asking important questions: How much energy and water will these data centers use? And what can be done to manage their environmental footprint?
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Penn State student bridges Indigenous geography and engineering in the Amazon
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Penn State student Sofia Hoffman spent a month in Ecuador’s Amazon Basin working with geography faculty and Kichwa communities to document contamination concerns linked to oil extraction through field research.
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Recap: 2026 Ashtekar Frontiers of Science lecture series, ‘Unexpected Pairings’
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The 2026 Ashtekar Frontiers of Science lecture series, titled, “Unexpected pairings: Addressing today’s biggest societal questions using different disciplinary approaches,” brought together two researchers from disparate disciplines to hear how they tackle pressing scientific issues and help shape the future of science, health and humanity.
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Inaugural Penn State-Ghana Seed Grant Program awardees announced
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The inaugural Penn State-Ghana Research Partnerships Seed Grant Program has awarded nine projects to fuel global impact, including crop disease surveillance, removing heavy metals from mining wastewater and understanding multimodal traffic streams.
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Irrigation gaps in weather models could skew air quality forecasts, study finds
Outdoor air pollution is estimated to contribute to more than 100,000 premature deaths in the United States each year, according to the National Weather Service. Accurate air quality forecasts — designed to protect public health, alerting communities to dangerous levels of pollutants linked to asthma attacks, heart disease and premature death — are critical for helping people limit exposure and for guiding regulatory action.
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Iran conflict impacts gas and oil prices in Central Pennsylvania
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The conflict in Iran may have only started Saturday, but the impact on gas prices has been swift. This article quotes IEE faculty member Seth Blumsack, professor of energy & mineral engineering.
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The 'Spirit of Chocolate' celebrates chocolate as both science and story
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On Valentine’s Day, the Palmer Museum of Art became a tasting room and a classroom all at once. “The Art of Chocolate: A Guided Tasting Experience,” presented by the Arboretum at Penn State in partnership with Penn State’s Cacao and Chocolate Research Network, paired research with sensory discovery and chocolate with cheese.
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Some pesticides can slip under natural protection into streams, researchers find
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Penn State researchers and their colleagues found that vegetative buffers, like shrubs or grasses, likely reduces the amount of specific pesticides from reaching a stream. However, the buffers are not protective against all pesticides entering waterways.
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Climate and human health risks of Saharan dust focus of Geography Coffee Hour
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Gregory Jenkins, professor of meteorology and atmospheric sciences at Penn State, will deliver a lecture titled “West Africa poised for late 21st century climate injustice: Modeling increasing anthropogenic GHGs and changes in Saharan mineral dust” on Friday, Feb. 27.
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