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<p>A team of Penn State chemical engineering researchers has reconfigured the design of solid-state lithium batteries so that all their components can be easily recycled. They published their approach in ACS Energy Letters. </p>

July 08, 2024

Making rechargeable batteries more sustainable with fully recyclable components

<p>Julia Ho, a second-year doctoral student in architectural engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected to receive the Innovation in Buildings (IBUILD) Graduate Research Fellowship. She is the first Penn State student to be selected for the fellowship since the program began in 2021.</p>

July 08, 2024

Engineering graduate student receives Department of Energy IBUILD fellowship

<p>Penn State is offering the opportunity for students to take courses in sequence to complete graduate-level certificates in eight master’s degree programs, through stackable credentials that can be completed online, through Penn State World Campus.</p>

July 08, 2024

Penn State offering stackable credentials through online learning

<p>Researchers from the Penn State Department of Kinesiology interviewed leaders from the Safe Routes to School program to identify barriers and strategies for implementing the program in economically disadvantaged communities so that more children can safely walk or bike to school. They published their findings in the Journal of Transport & Health.</p>

July 03, 2024

Mitigating barriers for children walking and biking to school

<p>William Rothwell, distinguished professor of workforce education in the Department of Learning and Performance Systems at Penn State, has co-authored three books published this summer aimed at improving workplace culture.</p>

July 03, 2024

College of Education's Rothwell authors books about improving workplace culture

<p>Stacey Gustavson completed a master's degree through Penn State World Campus, and she encouraged her son to finish his bachelor's degree.</p>

July 02, 2024

How a mother and son found success by earning their Penn State degrees online

June 27, 2024

Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe baffle scientists

<p>Engineering science and mechanics researchers at Penn State developed the ability to control the dissolve rate of biodegradable electronics by experimenting with dissolvable elements, like inorganic fillers and polymers, that encapsulate the device. The work has implications for advancing drug delivery systems, pacemakers and other medical devices. </p>

June 27, 2024

Biodegradable electronics may advance with ability to control dissolve rate

<p>Combining artificial intelligence (AI) and online search engines may make AI more trustworthy and search results easier to use, according to Penn State researchers.</p>

June 27, 2024

Q&A: In ChatGPT we trust?

<p>To advance soft robotics, skin-integrated electronics and biomedical devices, researchers at Penn State have developed a 3D-printed material that is soft and stretchable — traits critical for matching the properties of tissues and organs — and that self-assembles. Their approach employs a process that eliminates many of the drawbacks of previous fabrication methods, such as less conductivity or device failure. </p>

June 26, 2024

Self-assembling, highly conductive sensors could improve wearable devices

<p>The Himalayan ShePower project, created by graduate students in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, is designed to help smallholder farmers in Nepal earn extra income by producing paper from rhino waste.</p>

June 26, 2024

Penn State students’ project designed to uplift Nepal and protect wildlife

<p>Cacao, the chocolate tree, is one of the world’s most important economic crops, generating hundreds of billions of dollars annually. However, cocoa is affected by a range of pests and diseases, with some estimates putting losses as high as 30% to 40% of global production. Now, a team led by researchers at Penn State has created a genetic information resource to help plant breeders develop resistant strains of cacao that can be grown sustainably in its native Amazon and<em> </em>elsewhere, such as the tropical latitudes of Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.</p>

June 26, 2024

Researchers compile Cacao Gene Atlas to help plant breeders boost chocolate tree

<p>Regardless of age, symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescent females showed little to no variation prior to their first menstruation, indicating an early screening window prior to puberty, according to a study led by Penn State researchers. They also found that symptoms decrease in severity as more time passes since the first menstruation, again regardless of age.</p>

June 26, 2024

Identifying depression, anxiety symptoms prior to puberty in adolescent females

<p>Women experiencing opioid-use disorders may face unique challenges accessing treatment, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The study provides new insight into how pregnancy and parenting can make getting medications for these disorders particularly difficult.</p>

June 25, 2024

Women may face unique obstacles while seeking treatment for opioid use

$<p>Eating prunes daily may protect bone structure and strength in postmenopausal women, slowing the progression of age-related bone loss and reducing the risk of fracture, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. This is the first randomized controlled trial to look at three-dimensional bone outcomes.</p>$

June 25, 2024

Got prunes? Prunes may preserve bone density and strength in older women

<p>The Penn State Postdoc Society, in collaboration with Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, has announced the 2024 recipients of the Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar and Outstanding Postdoctoral Mentor awards. Kathryn Hinkelman received the Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award, and Catherine Berdanier received the Outstanding Postdoctoral Mentor Award.</p>

June 21, 2024

Celebrating excellence in postdoctoral scholarship and mentorship at Penn State

June 21, 2024

Penn State's graduate education training program in physiology awarded $2.75M

<p>A new family tree of the plant genus Solanum — which includes potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants — helps explain the striking diversity of their fruit color and size. An international team led by researchers at Penn State developed the improved tree and published the work in the journal New Phytologist. </p>

June 20, 2024

New tomato, potato family tree shows that fruit color and size evolved together

<p>Scott Showalter, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been named as the assistant dean for graduate and postdoctoral affairs in the Penn State Eberly College of Science, effective July 1.</p>

June 20, 2024

Showalter named assistant dean for graduate and postdoctoral affairs

<p>Architecture doctoral candidate Özgüç Bertuğ Çapunaman's research centers on helping robots become more aware of their physical environment so designers can enable new materialization techniques that have not been possible up to this point, such as 3D printing on uneven surfaces. </p>

June 18, 2024

Architecture doctoral candidate works to make robots more intelligent, adaptive

<p>Children who reported being more empathetic were more likely to show signs of poorer health if they lived in a household where the parents fought more, researchers found in a new study led by Hannah Schreier, associate professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State.</p>

June 18, 2024

Empathetic children may have poorer health in the face of interparental conflict

<p>Frogs have maintained a surprising number of nonvisual light-sensing proteins over evolutionary time, according to a new study led by a Penn State biologist. These proteins, called opsins, play a role in a variety of biological functions including calibration of circadian rhythm.</p>

June 17, 2024

Unexpected diversity of light-sensing proteins goes beyond vision in frogs

<p>If liquid water exists today on Mars, it may be too deep underground to detect with traditional methods used on Earth. But listening to earthquakes that occur on Mars — or marsquakes — could offer a new tool in the search, according to a team led by Penn State scientists.</p>

June 17, 2024

Marsquakes may help reveal whether liquid water exists underground on red planet

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May 02, 2024

Music graduate student wins University’s Professional Master’s Excellence Award

Chowdhury Imam at left and Arjun Kizhakkemarakkattil Janardhanan at right.

April 30, 2024

Two Stuckeman architecture graduate students recognized for research theses

Mayura Dhamdhere and Mason Breitzig

April 11, 2024

Two College of Medicine graduate students receive prestigious Penn State awards

Composite of portraits of: Julie A. Cerrito, Melanie R. McReynolds, Scott Michael Robertson, and Vivian Briones Valenty.

April 11, 2024

Four alumni recognized with 2024 Graduate School Alumni Society Awards

portrait of Meghan Sanders, Ph.D.

April 11, 2024

Penn State Graduate School Alumni Joins LSU Administration

Julie A. Cerrito, Ph.D

April 11, 2024

Professor Selected to National Academy

A poster for the Echoes & Edges exhibition.

April 09, 2024

Graphic design graduate students to host project exhibition on human well-being

Nicolas Bueno, Hanif Yoga, Turgay Ertekin, Nijat Gasimli, Ianna Gomez and Baran Yucel standing in front of Hosler Building

April 08, 2024

Penn State team wins national competition on use of AI in the energy industry

Side by side headshots of Timothy D. Smith and Maria Rovito.

April 05, 2024

American studies students receive Graduate School awards

April 04, 2024

Theatre student wins Professional Master’s Excellence Award

April 04, 2024

Forty graduate students honored with prestigious University awards

Dima Abu-Aridah in a white head scarf stands on the mezzanine level of the Stuckeman Family Building,

April 04, 2024

Stuckeman architecture doctoral candidate recognized for refugee camp research

Maggie Liao standing outside Carnegie Building next to the sign for the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.

April 04, 2024

Bellisario College doctoral student earns Alumni Association Dissertation Award

Kimberly Cunningham

April 04, 2024

Stuckeman architecture student recognized for excellence in research, academics

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March 26, 2024

Vigeant-Haas recognized with Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award

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March 26, 2024

Graham-Engeland honored with Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award

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March 26, 2024

Henward named recipient of Graduate Faculty Teaching Award

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March 18, 2024

Graduate School event to discuss current and future state of college admissions

Two violinists on stage.

March 18, 2024

Penn State community invited to attend Three Minute Thesis, Graduate Exhibition

Penn State Seal on HUB floor, 1855 visible.

March 13, 2024

2024 University-wide student awards announced for Penn State

Portraits of 11 Penn State graduate student Three Minute Thesis finalists.

March 11, 2024

Finalists announced for Graduate School Three Minute Thesis competition March 23

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January 10, 2024

Graduate School, Penn State Global announce spring grad student travel grants

April 14, 2023

Four alumni honored with Graduate School awards

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March 30, 2022

Gregory Miller receives Lifetime Achievement Award

March 30, 2022

Wakhungu receives 2022 Graduate School Humanitarian Award

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