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<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?

<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

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