Research
Research Institutes are established around major research areas and are supported by Centers of Excellence comprising faculty from colleges and departments across the University.
- Research Institutes
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Diabetes and Obesity InstituteProviding oversight and coordination for diabetes and obesity related research spanning both the Hershey and University Park campuses -
Genomics InstituteFacilitating collaboration between researchers from across Penn State in the areas of bioinformatics, computational genomics, evolutionary genomics, functional genomics, and proteomics -
Infectious Disease InstituteBringing together theoreticians and empirical scientists in a wide variety of disciplines to collaborate and innovate in the area of infectious disease research -
Institute of the NeurosciencesFacilitating collaboration and networking between scientists and students in the areas of neuroscience at the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and the University Park campus
- Recent Publications
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A new model of brain lateralization for movement, proposed by Huck Institutes affiliate Robert Sainburg and confirmed through novel virtual reality and brain lesion experiments, could dramatically improve the future of rehabilitation for stroke patients.
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A recent find by Huck Institutes researchers Jared Smith and Kevin Alloway at the Penn State Center for Neural Engineering shows that rats' brains are more like ours than scientists previously thought.
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The team, which includes several scientists affiliated with the Huck Institutes, recently completed a first-of-its-kind longitudinal pilot study aimed at better understanding how the neural processes that underlie responses to alcohol-related cues change across students' first year of college.
