IEE faculty, staff, and projects in the news
Iron deficiency in corals?
| psu.edu
When iron is limited, the tiny algae that live within coral cells change how they take in other trace metals, which could have cascading effects on vital biological functions and perhaps exacerbate the effects of climate change on corals.
Mentions
Stuckeman School professor receives funding for renewable energy art, design
| psu.edu
Mihyun Kang, research professor in the Stuckeman School and the assistant director for sustainability in the College of Arts and Architecture, is the principal investigator on an interdisciplinary proposal titled “Renewable Energy Art and Design,” which was awarded a seed grant from the Institutes of Energy and the Environment.
Mentions
Seed Grant Projects
Architectural engineering professor receives NSF CAREER grant
| psu.edu
Donghyun Rim, assistant professor of architectural engineering, was recently awarded a $500,000, five-year Early Career Development Program grant from the National Science Foundation. With this grant, Rim will study modeling and experimental validation of airborne nanoparticles in indoor environments.
Mentions
Dickinson Law professor earns IEE seed grant for project
| psu.edu
Penn State Dickinson Law Assistant Professor of Law Mohamed Rali Badissy is embarking on a research project to assess the barriers facing African governments trying to move forward with decarbonization.
Mentions
Two faculty members join the Institutes of Energy and the Environment
| psu.edu
Two researchers have become cofunded faculty members in the Institutes of Energy and the Environment: Hee Jeung Oh, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering, and Hilal Ezgi Toraman, an assistant professor in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences with a joint appointment in the College of Engineering.
Mentions
-
Hilal Ezgi Toraman
Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME) -
Hee Jeung Oh
Seed grants jump-start 47 interdisciplinary teams to conduct COVID-19 research
| psu.edu
With speed and ingenuity, more than 100 researchers across Penn State are shifting their research programs to address the COVID-19 crisis, thanks to funding from a seed grant initiative led by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. In total, the initiative awarded $2.25 million to 47 teams of researchers from three campuses, 10 colleges and more than 25 departments.
Mentions
-
Andrew Read
-
Suresh Kuchipudi
Suresh KuchipudiFormer Clinical Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences -
Troy Sutton
-
Scott H. Medina
-
Tak-Sing Wong
-
Nita Bharti
-
Anthony Robinson
Anthony Robinson -
Prasenjit Mitra
-
C. Lee Giles
-
Armen Kemanian
-
Lora Weiss
Lora WeissFormer Senior Vice President for Research, Office of the Vice President for Research
Efforts to control livestock disease should focus on management style, not age
| psu.edu
An animal's age does not affect its risk of transmitting PPRV, which produces a highly infectious and often fatal disease in sheep and goats. New research by an international team including researchers at Penn State has important implications for control of this widespread virus.
Mentions
A forest and its history, threatened
| psu.edu
The recent wildfires in Australia have impacted ecologically sensitive regions, including an area called the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Site, a region that is a living museum of paleo-Antarctic plants that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Mentions
Listening to your gut: A powerful new tool on the microbiome and cell metabolism
| psu.edu
Many aspects of our lives — not only the presence or absence of certain diseases, but conditions like obesity, sleep patterns, even mood — may be determined, to a surprising extent, by the microbes living inside of us. Patterson, Tombros Early Career Professor and professor of molecular toxicology at Penn State, is using one of the newer and more promising of these technologies, called metabolomics, to learn about the microbiome of the human gut.
Mentions
Penn State researchers study how flooding has impacted Pennsylvania
| collegian.psu.edu
Two Penn State researchers are studying the area where lower rates of home ownership and the potential effects of climate change intersect. For Katherine Zipp and Lara Fowler, the intersection
Mentions
Digging into the past
| psu.edu
Penn State assistant professor Sarah Ivory uses special fossils to study how climate changed in the deep past in some of the driest places on Earth, and how plants, animals and humans responded.
Mentions
The economy as complement, not detriment, to environment
| news.psu.edu
Jennifer Baka works to identify methods to foster synergies between environmental regulation and economic development. Her research not only solicits information from community members, but it informs and empowers people with data so they can be part of the conversation.
Mentions
-
Jennifer Baka
Associate Professor and John T. Ryan, Jr. Faculty Fellow, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences