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Book by Penn State instructional design experts receives national award

April 15, 2025

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Materials Research Institute announces 2025 seed grant recipients

April 15, 2025

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2025 University Libraries Awards recognize outstanding employee contributions

April 14, 2025

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Q&A: The new, shorter space race

April 14, 2025

Mahsa Kazempour

Berks science educator receives President’s Award for Engagement with Students

April 14, 2025

Head of Nittany Lion Shrine

Penn State announces 2025 University-wide faculty and staff awards

April 14, 2025

Liberal Arts academic program coordinator honored with 2025 Support Staff Award

April 14, 2025

Bellisario College professor, department head to receive Faculty Outreach Award

April 14, 2025

Five receive Faculty Scholar Medals

April 14, 2025

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Three faculty members named 2025 Penn State Teaching Fellows

April 14, 2025

Brandi Robinson

Climate action program earns Community Engagement and Scholarship Award

April 14, 2025

Charlotte Eubanks

Liberal Arts professor earns Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award

April 14, 2025

Statistics faculty member honored with Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award

April 14, 2025

Mathematics professor receives Teaching and Learning with Technology Impact Award

April 14, 2025

Human Development and Family Studies office manager receives Administrative Excellence Award

April 14, 2025

Economics professor honored with McKay Donkin Award

April 14, 2025

George Atherton Bust

Six faculty members receive 2025 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching

April 14, 2025

Robert Morehead

Astronomy professor, advising coordinator each receive 2025 Excellence in Advising Award

April 14, 2025

Engineering professor named recipient of Graduate Faculty Teaching Award

April 14, 2025

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Using AI to meet customer expectations in hospitality industry

April 14, 2025

University mourns loss of Professor Emeritus Stuart Mann

April 11, 2025

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Architecture, engineering professor’s firm earns Walton Family Foundation nod

April 11, 2025

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SSRI and CTSI award Penn State faculty fellowships

April 10, 2025

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Even sublethal insecticide dose may disrupt pollinator mating process

April 09, 2025

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Complete genome sequences of six ape species unveiled

April 09, 2025

Brandywine welcomes new enrollment services specialist

April 09, 2025

Urara Hasegawa, assistant professor at Penn State, in her lab

‘Patchy’ thermogels show next-gen biomedical material potential, scientists say

April 09, 2025

Penn State Schuylkill biologist recognized as a PERC Campus Sustainability Champion

April 09, 2025

EEEPI seminar: Estimating the health care cost of sugar-sweetened beverages

April 09, 2025

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Underused radar data may improve severe weather forecasts, scientists say

April 09, 2025

EarthTalks: Support for deploying new technologies for clean energy systems

April 08, 2025

Lee Kump and JP Maria

Earth and Mineral Sciences faculty and students honored at college's awards ceremony

April 08, 2025

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

April 08, 2025

Penn State mourns loss of world-renowned meteorologist Jenni Evans

April 07, 2025

Susan Freinkel talk: 'How Did We Get Hooked on Plastic?' on April 14

April 07, 2025

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Mechanical, biomedical engineering professor earns national recognition

April 07, 2025

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Mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy may improve chronic low back pain

April 07, 2025

SSRI Mentored Faculty Fellows for 2025-26

SSRI announces 2025-26 faculty fellows

April 07, 2025

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Tiny, soft robot flexes its potential as a life saver

April 07, 2025

Michael Schweinberger, professor of statistics at Penn State, will present “Causal Learning in the Interconnected and Interdependent World of the Twenty-First Century” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in 201 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

Statistics department to host free public lecture April 17

April 04, 2025

Commmunity coalitions-opioid crisis

Community coalitions key to combating the opioid crisis

April 04, 2025

Travis Williams

Travis Williams named assistant director of admissions at Penn State Schuylkill

April 03, 2025

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Teaching Professor Steven Haynes retires from the College of IST after 25 years

April 03, 2025

Martha Constantinou in front of equations

Berks hosts lecture on the 'Secrets of the Proton’s Spin'

April 03, 2025

A butterfly on a flowers

Picky eaters by day, buffet by night: Butterfly, moth diets sync to plant aromas

April 03, 2025

A blue and gold CT scan of a metal beam.

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

April 03, 2025

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Suat Irmak named fellow by leading world science society

April 03, 2025

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Q&A: How can drug repurposing lower drug costs and improve care?

April 03, 2025

Palmer Museum welcomes two pivotal new staff members

April 01, 2025

An older man looking in pain and holding his lower back being support by an older woman

Closeness may cause distress in relationships affected by chronic pain

April 01, 2025

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Rural manufacturing exports linked to innovation

April 01, 2025

A close-up shot of the blue reactor pool at the Breazeale Reactor at Penn State University Park.

$3.6M in grants awarded to nuclear engineering projects

April 01, 2025

International Space Station science program director to present McFarland Lecture

March 31, 2025

Class of Her Own movie poster

Penn State faculty member's award-winning documentary gets West Coast premiere

March 31, 2025

Two people sit on opposite ends of a couch with unhappy expressions, looking away from each other

PTSD can undermine healthy couple communication when people fear their emotions

March 31, 2025

Illustration of synthetic blood product next to microscopic images

$2.7M NIH grant to fund next generation of synthetic blood

March 31, 2025

A drone flies in the sky over a blurred-out body of water.

Q&A: Researchers’ approach aims to make AI-powered systems more efficient

March 31, 2025

Philosopher Kate Manne to give 2025 Lippin Lecture in Ethics

March 28, 2025

Elizabeth R. Baer/Shira Klein

Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies to present two speakers online in April

March 27, 2025

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Four Penn State faculty elected AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025

Manuel Llinás named a fellow of the AAAS

March 27, 2025

Zhiqiang Mao named a fellow of the AAAS

March 27, 2025

Author, nutritionist Marion Nestle to discuss politics of food industry marketing

March 26, 2025

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University supports Ukrainian academics through Nonresidential Scholars Program

March 26, 2025

Sun streaming through Penn State's Old Main bell tower

Penn State Emeritus Academy welcomes distinguished Spring 2025 inductees

March 26, 2025

A graph shows the visualization of how the Biomedical Data Translator functions. From left to right, the graph shows inputting questions, how the system works to retrieve information from the knowledge bases, and the responses provided.

Translator for biomedical research aims to speed up patient care

March 25, 2025

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