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<p>Leading North American forest genetics researchers, professionals and students joined together at Penn State for the 2025 Forest Genetics Conference, where they shared ideas and made connections to enhance research dedicated to preserving forests.</p>

July 02, 2025

National forest genetics groups meet at Penn State for annual conference

<p>Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts of the ideal foods. A new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that what bumble bees choose to eat may not line up with their ideal nutritional needs.</p>

July 02, 2025

What a bumble bee chooses to eat may not match ideal diet

<p>A research group, including several Penn State researchers, developed a computational model to streamline flood prediction in the continental United States. Their model, which they call a differentiable routing model, incorporates physical readings — like temperature and river height — into a system that uses artificial intelligence to simulate and predict water movement.</p>

July 02, 2025

Improving predictions of flood severity, place and time with AI

<p>These eight students join the 56 prior recipients continuing in the University’s graduate degree programs across seven academic colleges.</p>

July 02, 2025

Eight graduate students receive U.S. National Science Foundation fellowships

<p>Sarah Chekan, a master’s student in mechanical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected for the 2025-26 U.S. Fulbright Student Research/Study Program. She will conduct research within the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering on integrating renewable energy into existing power grids in Chile.</p>

July 01, 2025

Mechanical engineering grad student selected as Fulbright scholar for Chile

<p>The Penn State Alumni Association welcomed new volunteer leadership on July 1, with Susan Robinson, class of 1994, beginning a two-year term as president. Fellow leader Melissa Brickhouse, class of 1999, started her two-year term as vice president on the same day.</p>

July 01, 2025

Alumni Association welcomes new volunteer leadership

<p>A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this “cold blob” has been linked to weakening ocean currents that help regulate global climate — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Penn State researchers have found a weakening AMOC impacts not just the ocean but also the atmosphere, and that these two factors may contribute equally to the cold anomaly. </p>

June 30, 2025

Ocean, atmosphere equally responsible for Atlantic ‘cold blob,’ scientists find

<p>Tanusree Sharma, assistant professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, received a $60,000 Google Research Scholar Award for a project to help blind and low-vision people identify artificial intelligence-generated content.</p>

June 30, 2025

Q&A: Improving how blind and low-vision people navigate deepfakes

<p>Two faculty members in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences have been awarded the prestigious U.S.-Africa Frontiers Fellowships by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to build high-impact research collaboration and strengthen capacity building with African scientists. In addition, three African scientists will be visiting Penn State.</p>

June 27, 2025

EMS faculty members earn National Academies US-African Frontiers Fellowships

<p>After more than 32 years of service as a faculty member in the Penn State College of Education’s workforce education program, Distinguished Professor William Rothwell has chosen to retire from the University, effective June 30.</p>

June 26, 2025

William Rothwell retires after three decades as College of Education faculty

<p>Professor of Biology Charles T. Anderson has been named the new chair of the intercollege graduate degree program in plant biology in the Huck Institutes, succeeding longtime program head Teh-hui Kao.</p>

June 25, 2025

Charlie Anderson to lead plant biology intercollege graduate program

<p>Graduate student Inori Hayashi is the 2025 honoree of the annual Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award, which recognizes a Penn State student who has made exceptional contributions in the global geospatial intelligence community.</p>

June 25, 2025

Penn State announces 2025 Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award recipient

<p>The Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing, in partnership with Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, hosted its eighth annual Translating Research into Innovations in Practice Symposium on May 13-14 at the Penn Harris Hotel and Convention Center.</p>

June 24, 2025

Nursing hosts Translating Research into Innovations in Practice Symposium

<p>The Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing, in partnership with Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, hosted its eighth annual Translating Research into Innovations in Practice Symposium on May 13-14 at the Penn Harris Hotel and Convention Center.</p>

June 24, 2025

Nese Nursing hosts Translating Research into Innovations in Practice Symposium

<p>The Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing, in partnership with Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, hosted its eighth annual Translating Research into Innovations in Practice Symposium on May 13-14 at the Penn Harris Hotel and Convention Center.</p>

June 24, 2025

Nursing hosts Translating Research to Innovations in Practice Symposium

<p>At Penn State, two researchers are at the forefront of this intersection between computer science and biology. Mingfu Shao, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and David Koslicki, associate professor of computer science and engineering and of biology, recently presented three papers at RECOMB, one of the top conferences in computational biology, which took place April 26-29 in Seoul, South Korea.</p>

June 24, 2025

Q&A: How does computer science advance biology?

<p>Research from Keegan Peterson and Melissa Bopp of Penn State’s Department of Kinesiology suggests that physical fitness measures may be more effective than self-reported physical activity alone in predicting cardiometabolic risks in college students.</p>

June 24, 2025

College students’ fitness better indicates heart health than physical activity

<p>Teh-hui Kao, distinguished professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, has stepped down as chair of the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Plant Biology after 26 years in the role. Longtime program faculty member Charlie Anderson, professor of biology and co-director of the Center for Biorenewables, will take over as chair.</p>

June 23, 2025

Kao steps down as plant biology graduate program chair

June 23, 2025

Child Maltreatment Solutions Network announces funding recipients

<p>Penn State alumna Dana Cuomo and current graduate student Lily Houtman partnered to map student-reported experiences of gender-based violence at Lafayette College. </p>

June 20, 2025

Penn State alumna, graduate student partner on campus safety mapping project

<p>Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens or short-lived sterile workers who help rear their sisters rather than laying their own eggs. Now, an interdisciplinary team led by researchers at Penn State has uncovered the molecular mechanisms that control how the conflict between genes inherited from the father and the mother determine the larva’s fate.</p>

June 20, 2025

How a genetic tug-of-war decides the fate of a honey bee

<p>A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the stage for more efficient energy harvesting, heat transfer and infrared sensing. Their results, currently available online, are slated to be published in Physical Review Letters on June 23.</p>

June 20, 2025

Rewriting a scientific law to unlock the potential of energy, sensing and more

<p>Prolonged exposure to extreme heat can lead to heat exhaustion and heat stroke. In this Q&A, W. Larry Kenney, professor of physiology and kinesiology and Marie Underhill Noll Chair in Human Performance at Penn State, and doctoral candidate Olivia Leach discuss their research on the upper limits of heat and humidity that people can withstand based on their age, sex and health.</p>

June 18, 2025

Q&A: Who is in the most danger during a heatwave?

<p>Twenty Penn State World Campus students traveled to Hungary for a weeklong immersive experience in April as part of their course work for programs offered through the Penn State School of Labor and Employment Relations.</p>

June 17, 2025

Students travel to Hungary for international learning experience

<p>Penn State has named J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox as its 2025 Philanthropists of the Year. The award recognizes individuals, couples or families who have demonstrated exceptional generosity in the promotion and support of the University. In 2024, the couple made a landmark gift of $20 million to endow and name the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State.</p>

June 16, 2025

J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox honored as Penn State’s Philanthropists of the Year

<p>Six projects designed by Penn State graphic design students garnered awards in the worldwide Graphis New Talent Awards 2025 with two submissions receiving the competition’s highest honor and an additional 26 projects receiving Honorable Mention accolades.</p>

June 16, 2025

Stuckeman graphic design students shine in Graphis New Talent Awards

<p>Aviral Srivastava, who earned his master's degree in cybersecurity analytics and operations from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, was selected as a 2025 RSA Conference Security Scholar. </p>

June 16, 2025

IST cybersecurity graduate named RSA Conference Security Scholar

<p>The history of the Boston Bruins’ failed move to New Hampshire in the early 1980s demonstrates that residents and politicians can fundamentally alter deals related to team locations and venues, according to a report by Aaron Bonsu, doctoral candidate in kinesiology at Penn State.</p>

June 16, 2025

Q&A: Sports arenas — the importance of politics, fan response and public money

<p>To better understand potential contamination of the groundwater feeding the 3.5 million people served by private well systems in Pennsylvania, a team of researchers from Penn State conducted a novel three-year citizen science study of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — often referred to as forever chemicals — in 167 private wells across the commonwealth.</p>

June 16, 2025

‘Forever chemicals’ detected in 65% of sampled private wells in Pennsylvania

<p>A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes scientists from Penn State.</p>

June 13, 2025

Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

<p>The Penn State Alumni Association will recognize this year's Volunteer Award recipients during a ceremony July 27 on the University Park campus. All Penn Staters can register for the livestream, during which the Alumni Association will present six individual awards, made possible by endowments from alumni, and nine group awards, two of which are endowed by alumni. </p>

June 13, 2025

Registration open for 2025 Alumni Association Volunteer Awards livestream

<p>The Graduate Student Writing Retreat is one of a number of events organized by Penn State University Libraries to address the specific needs of graduate students. “Our goals are to introduce students to library resources and support in an informal setting, and to create space and structure for them to expand their social and professional networks,” said Sara Kern, engineering librarian.</p>

June 12, 2025

Libraries writing retreat provides graduate students support, community

<p>Hazel Velasco Palacios, a doctoral candidate in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been awarded a writing fellowship to help support her research on health care access for Pennsylvania farmworkers in the mushroom and dairy industries.</p>

June 12, 2025

Penn State Ag Sciences doctoral student awarded competitive national fellowship

<p>In a world first, a team led by researchers at Penn State used two-dimensional materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike silicon, to develop a computer capable of simple operations. The advancement, published in Nature, represents a major leap toward the realization of thinner, faster and more energy-efficient electronics, the researchers said.</p>

June 11, 2025

World’s first 2D, non-silicon computer developed

<p>For the first time, a team led by researchers at Penn State has developed a method of “fingerprinting” plant compounds called procyanidins, introducing a more sophisticated and accurate way to analyze the perceptual variation in many foods and drinks, including wine and chocolate. </p>

June 11, 2025

‘Fingerprinting’ plant compounds helps explain food, drink tastes

<p>Environmental educators can improve teaching and leadership skills by acquiring knowledge from their students through youth-to-adult intergenerational learning, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management.</p>

June 10, 2025

How youth teach environmental educators through intergenerational learning

<p>Faculty members and graduate students from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications will once again play a prominent role at the annual International Communication Association conference. Their scholarly contributions will be featured across a variety of sessions at this year’s event, the organization’s 75th, which runs from June 12-16 in Denver, Colorado.</p>

June 10, 2025

Bellisario College scholars to share research at international conference

<p>Patrick Hickey, a spring 2025 graduate of the professional master of architecture degree program in the Stuckeman School, was named the winner of the Department of Architecture’s 2025 Jawaid Haider Award for Design Excellence in Graduate Studies for his thesis that questions how effective the Americans with Disabilities Act has been in the built environment since its establishment in 1991.</p>

June 10, 2025

Architecture alum honored for thesis examining ADA in the built environment

<p>The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has named Evan Bozek, a doctoral candidate in engineering science and mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, one of 79 recipients of the 2025 DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award. Selected graduate students have the opportunity to continue their thesis research at a DOE facility for three to 12 months.</p>

June 09, 2025

Engineering grad student receives DOE award to research rock properties

<p>Two doctoral students from Penn State's One Health Microbiome Center have been selected to intern at QIAGEN's headquarters in Germany this summer. The internship program was developed as a collaboration between QIAGEN, a leading global biotechnology company, and the OHMC to foster trainee opportunities to develop skills in microbiome research and development.</p>

June 09, 2025

Two Penn State doctoral students selected for industry internship in Germany

<p>Data that has been lost in the weeds — or more accurately the turfgrass — could help improve estimates of carbon dioxide emissions from urban areas, according to a team led by scientists at Penn State.</p>

June 06, 2025

Lawn story: Turfgrass data may improve urban greenhouse gas emission estimates

<p>Milk protein and cellulose derived from plants may be the next big thing in sustainability, thanks to a first-of-its-kind advancement made by researchers at Penn State. Using a manufacturing technique called electrospinning, the team created nanofibers 1,000 times thinner than a human hair and then manipulated those fibers into mats that hold promise for a variety of products, like biodegradable — and even edible — food packaging.</p>

June 06, 2025

Edible, biodegradable fibers made from milk protein, cellulose

<p>More than 70 golfers participated in this year's golf outing, which raised $30,000 for scholarships to support graduate students at Penn State Great Valley. Penn State women's soccer head coach Erica Dambach spoke to reception attendees about the discipline of focusing on their attitudes. </p>

June 05, 2025

Penn State Great Valley golf outing raises $30,000 for student scholarships

<p>Thirteen Penn State engineering students from the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences took home several awards and scholarships from the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Association of Drilling Engineers this spring.</p>

May 30, 2025

Thirteen energy and mineral engineering students receive scholarships and awards

May 29, 2025

NSF grant funds re-surveying of Mood of the Nation Poll participants

<p>Data analytics alum Rahul Vemuri honed his skills in organizing large datasets predictive modeling to make sound business decisions. He showcased his skills during an industry partnership project and internship with PQ LLC. His talent in uncovering patterns and insights from the data impressed PQ’s leadership, leading to a full-time position as a data engineer specializing in market forecasting. </p>

May 29, 2025

Great Valley grad harnesses the power of data for market demand forecasting

<p>The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) is seeking applications from graduate students, postdoctoral students and non-tenure-line faculty to contribute to research projects put forward by faculty. The projects seek to enhance ICDS core interests of artificial intelligence, computational and data sciences, digital twins or quantum sciences. Applications are due June 16.</p>

May 28, 2025

Interdisciplinary program announces funding opportunities for junior researchers

<p>The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) is seeking applications from graduate students, postdoctoral students and non-tenure-line faculty to contribute to research projects put forward by faculty. The projects seek to enhance ICDS core interests of artificial intelligence, computational and data sciences, digital twins or quantum sciences. Applications are due June 16.</p>

May 28, 2025

Interdisciplinary program announces funding opportunities for rising researchers

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