Applied Research Laboratory receives national recognition for internship program
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The Student Opportunities in Applied Research program at Penn State Applied Research Laboratory was recently selected as one of the nation’s top 100 internship programs by Yello and Wayup as part of the National Intern Day program.
Penn State welcomes new cohort of Emerging Academic Leaders for fall 2024
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Penn State has announced the selection of 23 faculty members for the Penn State Emerging Academic Leaders program for fall 2024. This initiative highlights individuals who have demonstrated exceptional potential for academic leadership and innovation within their fields.
Scott named associate director of Institute of Energy and the Environment
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Christopher Scott, a researcher with more than three decades’ experience in international and domestic water, food and energy policy, has been named an associate director of the Institute of Energy and the Environment at Penn State.
Doctoral student to study Lyme disease communication in urban areas
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Megan Pietruszewski Norman, a doctoral student in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, was awarded a grant to study how the threat of Lyme disease is communicated in environments not typically associated with a high risk of contracting tick-borne illnesses — urban areas.
Vroom vroom! Penn State earns multiple wins in autonomous driving competition
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The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team took home multiple wins, including third place overall, in its third year of the AutoDrive Challenge II, which empowers student teams to develop and test a fully autonomous passenger vehicle on a controlled urban driving course over a weeklong competition.
Penn State awards five new seed grants to support inter-institutional research
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The 2024 awardees of Penn State’s Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research initiative comprise five collaborative projects that connect Penn State researchers with colleagues from Morgan State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the University of Texas Health Brownsville Campus, all minority-serving institutions
University-wide call to submit activities to the Penn State Community Impact Map
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Penn State Outreach is collaborating with multiple units across the university to develop the Penn State Community Impact Map, an interactive and visual representation of Penn State’s contributions, benefits and offerings available across Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania State University and Truflation team up to rethink housing inflation metrics
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Pennsylvania State University and Truflation have initiated an innovative research partnership with the goal of developing substitute metrics that provide a more accurate picture of housing inflation in the U.S. This article mentions Jiro Yoshida, professor of risk management.
Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them
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A newly released app allows users to search for discriminatory roadway names, helping communities grasp the ubiquity of inequalities embedded in everyday spaces and the harm they cause. This article was written by Joshua F.J. Inwood, professor of geography.
Penn State elevates research commercialization, innovation with IP office rebrand
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Penn State's Office of Technology Transfer, formerly known as the Office of Technology Management, plays a critical role in protecting intellectual property developed by faculty members and transferring technologies from the lab to the marketplace.
Researchers earn NSF grant to measure local innovation activity
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A team of researchers, including two Penn State agricultural economists and an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education fellow, received funding from U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a new method for accurately measuring innovation activity in small geographic regions.
$5M grant to engage Indigenous communities in climate change research
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Indigenous communities around the globe face profound threats from climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation. Now, an international team that includes researchers from Penn State have been awarded $5 million by the U.S. National Science Foundation, along with funding from Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany, to investigate how to mitigate these threats.