A Note from Neeli: Penn State steering the future of autonomous vehicles
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Ride along with President Neeli Bendapudi and the faculty and students who are helping develop tech for self-driving cars at the Larson Transportation Institute Test Track.
USDA officials visit Jeff Tech's Farm to Refrigerator training facility
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U.S. Department of Agriculture State Director for Rural Development Bob Morgan, on Wednesday, visited the construction site of Jeff Tech’s Farm to Refrigerator program training facility. This article mentions Penn State research.
Extension team earns national award for work on active transportation plan
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A Penn State Extension team won a 2024 Excellence in Teamwork award from the National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals for their project, “Partnering to Create PA Municipal Active Transportation Plans.”
Professor’s new book examines universities’ role in advancing science
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Penn State Professor of Sociology, Education and Demography David P. Baker is the co-author of the new book, “Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production,” which charts the spread of the global university system over the past 120 years and how it precipitated the growth of scientific knowledge.
Pennsylvania rural health program receives award for quality excellence
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The Pennsylvania Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program received the 2024 Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project Certificate of Excellence Award in recognition of outstanding critical access hospital state quality reporting and performance.
Commonwealth Campus Undergraduate Community-Engaged Research Awards announced
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Penn State announced the recipients of the inaugural Commonwealth Campus Undergraduate Community-Engaged Research Awards, a new program designed for faculty who specifically support undergraduate student participation in research that aims to improve community well-being.
Can 3D printing impact affordable housing stock? HUD thinks so
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3D printing could be a path toward faster, less expensive and more efficient affordable housing construction. This article mentions Penn State research.
City Semester Pittsburgh student focuses on sustainability, community engagement
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Penn State student Madeleine Ryan is a member of the 2024 City Semester Pittsburgh cohort, a program facilitated by the Franco Harris Pittsburgh Center at Penn State to enable Penn State students to spend their summers working on urban sustainability and engagement in Pittsburgh communities. Ryan is interning with Riverlife, a nonprofit organization that works with Pittsburgh property owners, public officials and community groups to create, activate and celebrate the city’s riverfronts.
Apply today: Penn State NSF I-Corps virtual fall cohort for researchers
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Penn State’s National Science Foundation I-Corps Short Course is accepting applications for its virtual August/September cohort. The no-cost program helps researchers test a startup idea through customer interviews and educational programming on the lean startup methodology.
Harrisburg drinking water treatment lab awarded grant
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Penn State Harrisburg has been awarded an American Water Charitable Foundation 2024 Water and Environment Grant focused on upgrading the drinking water treatment lab in the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology.
Genes or environment? A new model for understanding disease risk factors
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Using a large, nationally representative sample, a team led by Penn State College of Medicine researchers developed a model that more accurately predicts how genetics and air pollution levels causally influence disease development. They published their findings in Nature Communications.
Q&A: Professor discusses supply chain implications of Key Bridge collapse
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Penn State News sat down with Tony N.K. Lynch, assistant professor of supply chain management in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration, to discuss the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge and how it impacted supply chain infrastructure and resilience.