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<p>Honey bees may play a role in increasing virus levels in wild bumble bees each spring, according to researchers at Penn State who analyzed seasonal trends of parasite and virus transmission in bees. </p>

August 21, 2024

Honey bees may play role in spreading viruses to wild bumble bees

<p>Honey bees may play a role in increasing virus levels in wild bumble bees each spring, according to researchers at Penn State who analyzed seasonal trends of parasite and virus transmission in bees. </p>

August 21, 2024

Honey bees may play key role in spreading viruses to wild bumble bees

<p>During the week of July 29 through Aug. 2, the collaborative Penn State World Campus and College of Education Doctor of Education program’s students were welcomed to the University Park campus for a week to not only meet and interact with their D.Ed. peers but be immersed in the one-of-a-kind Penn State experience.</p>

August 20, 2024

First cohort of World Campus D.Ed. program welcomed to campus for summer summit

<p>Six teams of Penn State student startup founders recently wrapped up what turned out to be an impactful summer for their businesses. </p>

August 19, 2024

Student startups showcase progress at Summer Founders Demo Day

August 19, 2024

Updates from Graduate Student Funding Model Task Force

August 19, 2024

Penn State students awarded USDA pre-doctoral fellowships for research

<p>Penn State Global and Penn State Great Valley will co-host the first-ever Global Careers Institute at the Great Valley campus, Sept. 27 and 28. This event, intended for graduate students, is a professional development program designed to help the University's international and domestic students prepare for career success in the global marketplace.</p>

August 19, 2024

Global Careers Institute to be held at Great Valley, focus on graduate students

<p>Nicolás Verdejo, a Penn State architecture doctoral student in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School, was recognized by the Graham Foundation as one of six honorees of a 2024 Carter Manny Writing Citation. The Carter Manny Award program is the only pre-doctoral award dedicated exclusively to architectural scholarship and honors emerging international scholars whose work promises to challenge and reshape contemporary discourse and impact the field at large</p>

August 16, 2024

Architecture graduate student recognized with Carter Manny Writing Citation

<p>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.</p>

August 15, 2024

Doctoral student to study Lyme disease communication in urban areas

<p>Twelve Army sergeants major received their master’s degrees in education during the summer commencement through a fellowship program with the U.S. Army and Penn State World Campus. </p>

August 15, 2024

Twelve soldiers graduate with master’s degrees through Army partnership

<p>Early life exposure to "forever chemicals" in the environment permanently disrupts the gut microbiome in mice, contributing to the development of metabolic disease in later life, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The results suggest that human exposure to these chemicals during early childhood may be contributing to the recent epidemic of metabolic disorders, including obesity and Type 2 diabetes among adults.</p>

August 14, 2024

Early life exposure to common chemical permanently disrupts gut microbiome

<p>Adolescents were more likely to have consumed alcohol or tried marijuana by age 15 if they had later bedtimes and slept fewer hours during the night during childhood and adolescence, according to a new study led by a team from Penn State.</p>

August 13, 2024

Less sleep and later bedtime in childhood linked to future substance use

<p>A new study has rewritten the conventionally understood evolutionary history of certain proteins critical for electrical signaling in the nervous system. The study, led by Penn State researchers, appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</p>

August 12, 2024

Rewriting the evolutionary history of critical components of the nervous system

<p>Julianna Simon, associate professor of acoustics and of biomedical engineering, has been named interim director of the Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics. In a Q&A, Simon shares her perspectives on the field of acoustics, the direction and goals for the program, and Simon’s own professional background and research. </p>

August 12, 2024

Julianna Simon named interim director of Graduate Program in Acoustics

<p>Placing a central line in a patient’s vein to receive fluids or medicine is one of the most common medical procedures, with more than 5 million performed each year in the United States. Researchers in Penn State’s Colleges of Engineering and of Medicine aim to reduce error rates in central-line placement by designing and implementing a novel robotic training program that uses life-like manikins and real-time feedback to simulate patient scenarios.</p>

August 12, 2024

Re-engineering medical simulation training for the next generation of physicians

<p>Hailey Cleveland, a doctor of nursing practice student at the Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing, was recognized by Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center for developing guidelines to standardize implementation of simple, cost-effective solution to prevent inflammation of the digestive tract and mouth in pediatric patients with cancer</p>

August 12, 2024

Nursing student honored for helping children with cancer prevent mouth sores

<p>Memory updating is impaired in old age, yet little is known about the mechanisms behind the process and what goes wrong with older age. A team of researchers from Penn State found that blocking a repressive enzyme called repressive histone deacetylase 3 improved memory updating in older mice.</p>

August 09, 2024

Memory problems in old age linked to a key enzyme, study in mice finds

<p>Krishawna Goins, a two-time alumna of the College of Education and equity trailblazer, will enroll in the online Doctor of Education degree program this fall.</p>

August 08, 2024

College of Education alumna returns to Penn State to continue equity journey

<p>Long He, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and colleagues in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences recently received a 2024 Superior Paper Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers for their research presentation titled, “An Advanced Robotic System for Precision Chemical Thinning of Apple Blossoms.”</p>

August 07, 2024

Ag Sciences researchers win award for ‘superior’ paper from engineering society

<p>Ancient fossil beans about the size of modern limes, and among the largest seeds in the fossil record, may provide new insight into the evolution of today’s diverse Southeast Asian and Australian rainforests, according to Penn State researchers who identified the plants.</p>

August 07, 2024

Giant fossil seeds from Borneo record ancient plant migration

<p>Researchers from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications will once again play a significant role in the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, scheduled Aug. 7-11 in Philadelphia. Twenty-six members of the Bellisario College, 14 faculty members and 12 graduate students, and numerous alumni will participate in panels, presentations, sessions, workshops and more during the conference.</p>

August 06, 2024

Bellisario College exhibits wide-ranging research at conference in Philadelphia

<p>Penn State researchers, physicians and medical students came together to start up the LION Mobile Clinic, a mobile clinic providing care to the rural community of Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania.</p>

August 06, 2024

Bringing health care back to a rural Pennsylvania community

<p>Counseling and Psychological Services, also known as CAPS, a unit of Student Affairs, has received full accreditation again for its doctoral internship program in Health Service Psychology by the American Psychological Association for 10 years. </p>

August 05, 2024

CAPS re-accredited for doctoral internship in health service psychology

<p>Counseling and Psychological Services, also known as CAPS, a unit of Student Affairs, has received full accreditation again for its doctoral internship program in Health Service Psychology by the American Psychological Association for 10 years. </p>

August 05, 2024

CAPS reaccredited for doctoral internship in health service psychology

<p>A discovery that uncovered the surprising way atoms arrange themselves and find their preferred neighbors in multi-principal element alloys could enable engineers to “tune” these unique and useful materials for enhanced performance in specific applications ranging from advanced power plants to aerospace technologies, according to the researchers who made the finding.</p>

August 05, 2024

Atoms in advanced alloys find preferred neighbors when solidifying

<p>A U.S. Air Force veteran who is a Penn State World Campus master's student has received the University's 2024 Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the geospatial intelligence community. The honoree is Christopher Ramos, who served for 10 years in the U.S. Air Force working in special operations weather forecasting. </p>

August 02, 2024

2024 Murphy Award honors Air Force veteran

<p>Dale and Molly Crawford, who is a Penn State World Campus alumna, are celebrating their wedding anniversary today (Aug. 1). They are also celebrating PA Donor Day because, without the gift of an organ donor, they wouldn’t be marking their anniversary.</p>

August 01, 2024

Penn State alumna's family has reason to be grateful for organ donation

<p>A new study led by Penn State researchers identified whole-genome duplication events in the plant family that includes rice, maize, wheat and bamboo and explored how retention or loss of duplicated genes helped shaped the evolution of grasses allowing them to thrive in a multitude of environments.</p>

July 31, 2024

How duplicated genomes helped grasses diversify and thrive

<p>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.</p>

July 30, 2024

Genes or environment? A new model for understanding disease risk factors

<p>A team of researchers from Penn State College of Medicine identified mouse brain regions vulnerable to blood vessel degeneration, offering clues to the connection between vasculature and neurodegenerative disease. They published their findings in Nature Communications.</p>

July 30, 2024

New high-resolution 3D maps show how the brain’s blood vessels change with age

<p>Snacks provide, on average, about one-fourth of most people’s daily calories. With nearly one in three adults in the United States overweight and more than two in five with obesity, according to National Institutes of Health, researchers in the Penn State Sensory Evaluation Center are investigating how Americans can snack smarter.</p>

July 30, 2024

Trying to limit calories? Skip the dip, researchers advise

<p>Environmental, social and governance initiatives lead to greater financial gains for hospitality firms in high-income countries compared to middle- and low-income nations, according to new findings from researchers in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management.</p>

July 29, 2024

Environmental, social initiatives lead to greater returns in high-income nations

<p>The key to developing quantum electronics may have a few kinks. According to a team led by researchers at Penn State, that’s not a bad thing when it comes to the precise control needed to fabricate and operate such devices, including advanced sensors and lasers. The researchers fabricated a switch to turn on and off the presence of kink states, which are electrical conduction pathways at the edge of semiconducting materials. They published their approach in Science. </p>

July 25, 2024

‘Kink state’ control may provide pathway to quantum electronics

<p>Gregory and Annette Miller have made a gift to Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development, providing his alma mater with new graduate research support options.</p>

July 25, 2024

Nutrition alumnus creates fund to support graduate research

<p>Penn State World Campus alum Lisa Milne is packing her bags to travel to Paris this month to help support athletes participating in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Milne is the director of alumni relations for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and a 2021 graduate of the Penn State Online MBA.</p>

July 25, 2024

Penn State grad uses her MBA to help Team USA

<p>Some TikTok users acknowledge the technology underlying personalized content online but can’t deny sometimes feeling that a higher power is involved, according to researchers from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. The researchers spoke with Penn State News about how and why TikTok users interpret algorithmic recommendations as a kind of divine intervention.</p>

July 24, 2024

Q&A: If you’re seeing this, is it meant for you?

Erik Schoonover

July 22, 2024

Doctoral candidate awarded Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship

July 22, 2024

Penn State alumna returns to alma mater to focus on technology education

J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox

July 19, 2024

Jeff and Ann Marie Fox name Graduate School with $20 million commitment

<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?

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