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IST researchers examine interplay of cognition, physiology and behavior
Researchers at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, including Huck Institutes faculty member Frank Ritter, are using cognitive architecture — a theory of human cognition implemented as a computer simulation program — to understand how cognitive processes interact with biological systems and influence social behavior.
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Opening for faculty position in cellular and molecular imaging
The Department of Bioengineering at Penn State University seeks to hire a full-time faculty member at the level of Associate or Full Professor in the area of cellular and molecular imaging.
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Vaccine research shows vigilance is needed against evolution of more-virulent malaria
Research conducted by Penn State's Andrew Read reveals that malaria parasites evolve to become more virulent in response to their hosts being immunized with a critical component of several candidate human malaria vaccines which are currently in clinical trials.
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New TEMs coming soon to the Millennium Science Complex
Penn State will install two new transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) in the Materials Research Institute's Materials Characterization Lab and the Huck Institutes' Microscopy and Cytometry Facility.
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New laser capture microdissection system coming soon to the Microscopy and Cytometry Facility
The Huck Institutes have acquired a Zeiss PALM MicroBeam system, which will be delivered in late July 2012 to the Microscopy and Cytometry Facility located in the Millennium Science Complex.
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Polar bear evolution tracked climate change, new DNA study suggests
An international study — led by Penn State's Stephan Schuster and Web Miller and the University at Buffalo's Charlotte Lindqvist — includes an analysis of newly sequenced polar bear genomes that provides important clues about the species' evolution, suggesting that climate change and genetic exchange with brown bears helped create the polar bear as we know it today.
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Huck Institutes infectious disease researcher is consulted on accuracy of "Contagion" film
Marcel Salathé of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics discusses epidemiology and global pandemics on "Did They Get it Right?"
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Huck Institutes faculty member receives $100,000 grant from NFL Charities to advance research on concussions in children
Semyon Slobounov aims to find out whether children suffering from concussions recover faster and have a better prognosis than young adults.
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Interdisciplinary research looks at whole-farm sustainability
Heather Karsten leads the Sustainable Dairy Cropping Systems research project — a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to managing whole-farm sustainability through conservation of soil, nutrients, biodiversity and energy.
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Life Sciences Building named for J. Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck
Nearly 60 years after Lloyd and Dottie Huck's first donation to their alma mater, Penn State's Board of Trustees on July 13 honored the couple's longtime service and philanthropy to Penn State through the newly renamed J. Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck Life Sciences Building.
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Carsten Krebs receives an Early Career Award from the Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry
The prize is considered to be the signature award in the field of biological inorganic chemistry, and is awarded to the most meritorious scientist who has completed no more than 15 years of distinguished research in the field.
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Penn State professor receives $500,000 grant for breast cancer research
Andrea Mastro was awarded the grant by the U.S. Army Medical and Materiel Command Breast Cancer Program in order to further her study of bone metastasis.
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Facing modern forest management challenges: mitigation, adaptation
James Finley discusses the present state and future outlook of woodlands in the eastern United States.
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Exposure to violence has long-term stress effects among adolescents
Elizabeth Susman and colleagues find enduring negative effects of exposure to violence up to a year after the initial event.
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Patrick Drew receives a 2012 McKnight Scholar Award
The Board of Directors of The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has announced the 2012 McKnight Scholar Award recipients — among them Penn State professor and Huck Institutes faculty member Patrick Drew with his proposal entitled "Imaging neurovascular coupling in the behaving animal."
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Penn State mourns alumni leader and philanthropist Verne Willaman
Penn State, the Eberly College of Science, and the Huck Institutes have lost a leading advocate and supporter with the passing of Verne M. Willaman, a class of 1951 graduate and retired chairman and president of Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation.
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Acoustic tweezers capture tiny creatures with ultrasound
A team of bioengineers and biochemists including Tony Jun Huang and Steven Benkovic has created a dime-sized device that uses ultrasound to manipulate cells and small organisms.
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Crowdbreaks tracks disease trends through social media
The Salathé research group in the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and the HealthMap team at Boston Children's Hospital collaborate to crowd-source disease surveillance using aggregated Twitter feeds, user-driven data refinement, and machine-learning algorithms.
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Penn State is awarded a $5.8 million grant to expand its Galaxy biomedical analysis software
Anton Nekrutenko of the Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, with co-developer James Taylor of Emory University, will continue to build new functionality into the Galaxy resource.
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Grant proposals to the W.M. Keck Foundation continue
The initiative is ongoing, with a 3-5 year target for successful awards; the next submission cycle begins November 1, 2012.
