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<p>The Fox Graduate School recognized three alumni — Jennifer Hoewe, Jonathan U. Dougherty and Gail Folena-Wasserman — with awards at the Fox Graduate School Alumni Recognition Dinner on March 29 at the Nittany Lion Inn.</p>

April 14, 2025

Three alumni selected for 2025 Fox Graduate School alumni society awards

<p>College of Arts and Architecture graduate students Alivia Cross and Isabella Scotti are among the recipients of the 2025 Professional Master’s Excellence Award, sponsored by the Office of the President and administered by the Fox Graduate School. </p>

April 14, 2025

Graduate students in theatre, music win Professional Master’s Excellence Awards

<p>Fawn Hosterman, director of graduate records in the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School, has been named the 2025 Staff Excellence Award winner.</p>

April 14, 2025

Fox Graduate School director of records named Staff Excellence Award winner

<p>Ram Narayanan, professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2025 Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award. The award honors and recognizes outstanding achievement by a faculty member with at least five years of service who effectively guides junior faculty. Howard Palmer was the senior associate dean of the Graduate School from 1984 to 1991.</p>

April 14, 2025

Electrical engineering professor recognized with Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award

<p>Swaroop Ghosh, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering, has received the 2025 Graduate Faculty Teaching Award. The award, established in 1992 by the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School, is presented to faculty members in recognition of outstanding teaching performance and advising of graduate students. </p>

April 14, 2025

Engineering professor named recipient of Graduate Faculty Teaching Award

<p>Ephraim Hanks, associate professor of statistics in the Eberly College of Science, is the 2025 recipient of the Graduate School Alumni Society Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award. The award honors faculty members for exemplary leadership that benefits graduate students and faculty in an existing graduate program at the University.</p>

April 14, 2025

Statistics faculty member honored with Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award

<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged by hospitality companies to meet or even exceed customers’ expectations, but businesses should balance AI with their other needs like a personalized, human touch, according to a framework proposed by researchers in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management.</p>

April 14, 2025

Using AI to meet customer expectations in hospitality industry

<p>The Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing and its Alumni Society Board presented awards to undergraduate and graduate students, engaged alumni, faculty and staff at the annual Awards Celebration reception and dinner at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.</p>

April 11, 2025

Nese College of Nursing Alumni Society celebrates 2025 alumni award recipients

<p>Six Penn State Great Valley students presented four research projects at the 2025 Graduate Exhibition, hosted by the Fox Graduate School. This event offered the students a professional development experience with opportunities to network and practice their communication skills as they explained their projects, the methods they used and the impact of their work in areas ranging from geographically targeted opioid interventions to affordable cybersecurity practices for nonprofit organizations. </p>

April 10, 2025

Great Valley students presented actionable insights at research exhibition

<p>Differences among the DNA of seven ape species — including humans — are greater than originally thought, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers at Penn State, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the University of Washington. </p>

April 09, 2025

Complete genome sequences of six ape species unveiled

<p>Readily available but underused Doppler radar data can help predict the height of the planetary boundary layer — the lowest part of the atmosphere and where weather forms — and, in turn, improve severe weather forecasts, according to scientists at Penn State. </p>

April 09, 2025

Underused radar data may improve severe weather forecasts, scientists say

<p>College of Arts and Architecture graduate students Ye Sul Park and Nan Yang are among the recipients of the 2025 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award. The award is sponsored jointly by the Fox Graduate School, through the Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award endowment, and the Office of the Vice President and Dean for Undergraduate Education. </p>

April 08, 2025

Graduate students in Art Education, Architecture receive outstanding teaching awards

April 08, 2025

Penn State doctoral candidate wins award for international student advocacy

<p>Despite U.S. per capita-milk consumption falling significantly in recent decades, according to the U.S. Department of Agricultural, Americans are consuming a record amount of dairy in butter and cheese — products made from milk fat. In a new study, a team led by researchers at Penn State demonstrated that supplementing dairy cattle feed with 15% whole cottonseed, a byproduct of processing cotton for fiber, can increase milk fat concentration and yield. </p>

April 08, 2025

Feeding dairy cows whole cottonseed byproduct boosts milk fat, researchers find

<p>A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international team led by researchers at Penn State are pioneering such adaptable robots by integrating flexible electronics with magnetically controlled motion. </p>

April 07, 2025

Tiny, soft robot flexes its potential as a life saver

<p>Thirty-one graduate students received awards at the 2025 Graduate Exhibition, a professional development event designed to help graduate students hone their skills with communicating research and creative scholarship to a general audience. </p>

April 04, 2025

Thirty-one students receive awards at 2025 Graduate Exhibition

<p>Kieron Cook, who will graduate in May with a master's degree in architecture, has taken advantage of the properties of kinetic sand — which is easy to squeeze, shape and mold — to develop a reusable formwork that aims to reduce waste generated during the casting of architectural concrete and cement forms, while allowing architects to create unique design opportunities. Cook was recognized for his project by the Fox Graduate School with its Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award for 2025.</p>

April 04, 2025

Using robotic sand packing as a reusable formwork for casting building concrete

<p>Forty-two graduate students received Penn State's annual recognition awards that celebrate students' impact in research, scholarship, teaching, outreach, mentoring and more. </p>

April 04, 2025

Forty-two graduate students recognized with University awards

<p>A team of Penn State researchers used a new 3D-printing method to produce a complex metal build that was once only possible with welding: fusing two metals together into a single structure. </p>

April 03, 2025

Beyond welding: Researchers 3D print two metals in single complex structure

<p>Penn State Great Valley MBA alumna Rina Desai, principal/owner of Eigen X, a professional services firm focused on data and technology, will address graduates at the Great Valley commencement ceremony on May 9. </p>

April 02, 2025

Eigen X principal to give Great Valley 2025 commencement address

<p>At the intersection of technology and agriculture, Penn State’s Agribot Club in the College of Agricultural Sciences aims to shape the future of farming through robotics.</p>

April 02, 2025

Penn State’s Agribot Club: Where technology meets agriculture

<p>Two Penn State World Campus graduates, Carmen Paredes and Megan Brosious, received the 2024 Outstanding Alumni Award.</p>

April 02, 2025

Economics, health administration professionals honored as 'Outstanding Alumni'

<p>Emmanuel Kraft, who is earning consecutive undergraduate degrees in political science and communication arts and sciences, as well as a master’s degree in public policy at Penn State University Park, and Sean Martin, a junior majoring in digital media, arts, and technology at Penn State Behrend, are the recipients of the 2025 Jackson Lethbridge Tolerance Award.</p>

April 02, 2025

Two undergraduates recognized with Jackson Lethbridge Tolerance Award

<p>Jess Mruzik, an outside hitter on the Penn State women’s volleyball team, and Tyler Warren, a tight end with the Nittany Lions football team, have been selected as the 2025 recipients of the Ernest B. McCoy Memorial Award.</p>

April 02, 2025

Two Penn State student-athletes honored with 2025 Ernest B. McCoy Award

<p>Findings from a new study from researchers in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies suggest that relationship closeness between couples where one person has chronic back pain led to more marital satisfaction on days when the couple felt closer; however, on emotionally close days, the partner of the pain-affected person also experienced more distress.</p>

April 01, 2025

Closeness may cause distress in relationships affected by chronic pain

<p>The public is invited to a new exhibit at Penn State Wilkes-Barre’s Friedman Art Gallery. “Empty and Full: Series & Introduction to Self-Painted Korean Traditional Art Pieces” by artist and doctoral student Tae Hee Kim ("Ajin") is open April 2-30 during regular gallery hours.</p>

April 01, 2025

Korean artwork exhibit by artist Ajin opens at Penn State Wilkes-Barre

<p>Tricia Hart, a recent doctoral graduate in nutritional sciences, took home first place in Penn State Three Minute Thesis competition, which challenges graduate students to highlight the impact of their research in three minutes. Chemical engineering doctoral candidate Adam Smerigan earned second place, and energy and mineral engineering doctoral candidate Patrick Sarpong earned the People's Choice Award in the 2025 competition, hosted by the Fox Graduate School on March 29. </p>

March 31, 2025

Three graduate students receive awards in 2025 Three Minute Thesis competition

<p>Corey Wheeler originally went back to school to finish his bachelor’s degree. He found success as a Penn State World Campus online learner that led him to three degrees and big plans for the future.</p>

March 31, 2025

How a Penn State education empowered this alum to dream big

<p>People with PTSD can have difficulty resolving relationship concerns with their romantic partners. Some of these problems may stem from people’s fear of their emotions, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.</p>

March 31, 2025

PTSD can undermine healthy couple communication when people fear their emotions

<p>The American Heart Association awarded Nivetha Gunaseelan, a doctoral candidate studying biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a predoctoral fellowship.</p>

March 31, 2025

Biomedical engineering grad student earns American Heart Association fellowship

<p>Lauri Accardi is a working mother of four children who is earning two graduate business degrees online through Penn State World Campus.</p>

March 27, 2025

Smeal alumna invests in herself through graduate programs

<p>Penn State students, faculty, staff and symposium attendees are invited to present their work at an in-person poster session highlighting innovative climate solutions.</p>

March 27, 2025

Call for posters for 2025 Penn State Climate Solutions Symposium

<p>A team led by researchers at Penn State is working to accelerate drug discovery, with the potential to treat rare diseases, by improving the National Institutes of Health’s Biomedical Data Translator — a network of computer interfaces that take biomedical research questions and provide fact-based responses. </p>

March 25, 2025

Translator for biomedical research aims to speed up patient care

<p>A group of 15 Penn State graduate students and postdoctoral scholars have been selected to participate in the Bayer Crop Science 2025 University Mentoring Program, a global initiative that pairs students with industry professionals for career guidance and professional development. </p>

March 24, 2025

Fifteen Penn Staters selected for Bayer Crop Science mentoring program

<p>The Penn State Competitive Cyber Security Organization will host its first Capture the Flag (CTF) event, SillyCTF, on March 29. The virtual cybersecurity competition is open to everyone, and college students with an ".edu" email address can win prizes.</p>

March 23, 2025

Student cybersecurity organization to host national Capture the Flag competition

<p>Nearly 300 graduate students will be presenting research and scholarship and honing their communication skills at the 40th annual Graduate Exhibition, hosted by the Fox Graduate School. Community members can view research videos, chat with students about their scholarship, and see musical performances on Friday, March 28, on the University Park campus.</p>

March 22, 2025

Graduate Exhibition to showcase research and scholarship for community

<p>Four graphic design students from the Stuckeman School were honored in two esteemed design competitions: the 2024 AIGA Flux National Student Design Competition and the 2024 International Design Awards.</p>

March 21, 2025

Penn State graphic design students earn national recognition in two competitions

<p>Insecticides may help growers hoping to protect their crops from harmful insects, but they also may contribute to a larger amount of some weeds, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State.</p>

March 21, 2025

Insecticides may contribute to bigger problems with certain weeds

March 20, 2025

Penn State Human Resources shifting to virtual Form I-9 completion

<p>The Engineering Ambassadors Network recently held a three-day-long Spring Leadership Conference at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.</p>

March 19, 2025

Engineering Ambassadors conference connects student engineers at Penn State

<p>A new workshop series at Penn State aims to help postdoctoral scholars and advanced doctoral students navigate the fellowship application process and strengthen their funding proposals. Workshops will take place on March 20, April 13 and May 5 at University Park and on Zoom. Registration is required for each workshop.</p>

March 19, 2025

Series to help early-career researchers navigate funding process begins March 20

<p>Increased antibiotic use can lead, seemingly paradoxically, to more problematic infections, as the bacteria evolve to resist the treatment. The answer to this antimicrobial resistance, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called “one of the world’s most urgent public health problems,” might be a medication used for kidney disease, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State.</p>

March 18, 2025

FDA-approved dialysis drug may help fight against antimicrobial resistance

<p>Community members are invited to engage with graduate students as they present their research and scholarship at Penn State's 40th annual Graduate Exhibition, set for March 28 on the University Park campus. </p>

March 17, 2025

Community invited to judge 2025 Graduate Exhibition

<p>Penn State graduate students will showcase their research in Penn State’s second annual Three Minute Thesis competition on Saturday, March 29, hosted by the Fox Graduate School. Community members are invited to attend, support participants, and vote for their favorite presentation.</p>

March 17, 2025

Stage set for final round of Three Minute Thesis competition on March 29

<p>Switching daily snack foods to pecans improves cholesterol levels and enhances overall diet quality, according to a new study by researchers in the Penn State Department of Nutritional Sciences.</p>

March 17, 2025

Replacing other snacks with pecans may improve cholesterol, diet quality

March 15, 2025

Ag Sciences research institute SAFES funds projects addressing critical issues

<p>A new study has described a potential mechanism that could help explain why some proteins refold in a different pattern than expected. The researchers, led by chemists at Penn State, found that a type of misfolding, in which the proteins incorrectly intertwine their segments, can occur and create a barrier to the normal folding process.</p>

March 14, 2025

Protein accidentally lassos itself, helping explain unusual refolding behavior

<p>A team of researchers from Penn State and Baylor College of Medicine found that the Zika virus builds tiny tunnels, called tunneling nanotubes, to stealthily transport material needed to infect nearby cells, including in placental cells — which is one way the virus transmits from mother to fetus during pregnancy. The team also demonstrated, for the first time, that one specific Zika protein is responsible for the formation of the nanotubes.</p>

March 14, 2025

Tunnel-building virus: How Zika transmits from mother to fetus

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