Marc Abrams, professor of forest ecology and physiology and Steimer Professor of Agricultural Sciences in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work.
Lara LaDage, associate professor of biology at Penn State Altoona, has joined Undergraduate Research for a one-year faculty fellow appointment.
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences has awarded principal investigator Eunhye Song, Harold and Inge Marcus Early Career Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State, $140,000 to push the frontier of large-scale discrete simulation optimization. Song’s goal is to create a new algorithm that is computationally efficient while simultaneously providing a statistical optimality guarantee.
Beth Gugino, professor of vegetable pathology in the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, received this year’s Excellence in Extension Award presented by the American Phytopathological Society. This year’s meeting, Plant Health 2019, was held in Cleveland, Ohio, from Aug. 3 to 7.
The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy will be the site of a global meeting to address the crisis facing women’s and gender studies programs in Africa.
An interdisciplinary team composed of faculty from the Departments of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs recently received $50,000 from the College of Engineering’s Engineering for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (ENGINE) grant program for its project focused on 3D-printed concrete.
Assistant Professor of Psychology Roger Beaty and two colleagues from other institutions will collaborate on an NSF-funded project to understand and measure creativity in the context of science.
The Department of Landscape Architecture within the Stuckeman School at Penn State is expanding with the addition of three tenure-track faculty members.
The Penn State Postdoc Society has announced the winner of the 2019 Outstanding Postdoc Award, Molly Hanlon, and the winner of the 2019 Outstanding Postdoc Mentor Award, Klaus Keller.
Hui Yang, Harold and Inge Marcus Career Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study exactly how a process called glycosylation can cause proteins to disrupt the harmony of cell activity.
Two new associate professors have joined the Department of Political Science in the College of the Liberal Arts as part of the college's African American and African Diaspora Life and Culture Cluster hire.
The unique teaching methods and studio culture created by the late artist and educator Robert Reed inspired thousands of students during his 50 years in higher education. One of his former students, who is now a faculty member in Penn State's Stuckeman School’s Department of Architecture, was so moved by Reed’s passion and approach to teaching, she has set out to share his life, his work and his pedagogy with a whole new generation of students.
Paula Kustenbauder, instructor in nursing, is a finalist for a 2019 Nightingale Award in the Nursing Education – Academia category.
Hester Blum captured these photos while aboard the icebreaker Oden for the Northwest Passage Project, tracking climate change in the Arctic Ocean.
Medha D. Makhlouf, assistant professor of law and founding director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State’s Dickinson Law, received a joint appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine — part of central Pennsylvania’s only academic medical center that also includes Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Children’s Hospital, and Penn State Medical Group.
