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Apr 02, 2017
Penn State's valued relationship with its graduate students
President Eric Barron's letter to the University community
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Feb 16, 2017
Call for nominations: IGDP student excellence
Attention Huck Institutes Intercollege Graduate Degree Program (IGDP) chairs and faculty: The Huck Institutes is seeking nominations for exceptional graduate students to be highlighted on the Huck Institutes website and social media.
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Nov 21, 2016
Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences builds on commitment to graduate student professional development
Over the past two years, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, with the assistance of members of Penn State's Industrial/Organizational Psychology program, has built and implemented a developmental system for graduate students in the Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs (IGDPs) in the life sciences.
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Aug 01, 2016
Announcing Huck Graduate Research Innovation Grant recipients for 2016
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of Huck Graduate Research Innovation (GRI) Grants.
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Aug 01, 2016
Tang wins Outstanding Oral Poster Prize
Yin Tang, a graduate student in the Bioinformatics and Genomics program who is co-advised by Sally Assmann and Phil Bevilacqua, recently won a University of California, Berkeley Center for Computational Biology Outstanding Oral Poster Prize for his presentation at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2016 meeting in Orlando, Florida.
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Jan 28, 2016
Proposals Requested for J. Lloyd Huck Graduate Research Innovation Grants 2016
The Huck Institutes is now accepting research proposals from students for the 2016 Huck Graduate Research Innovation (GRI) Grants. The Huck GRI Grants succeed the 2015 Huck Graduate Dissertation Research Grants and 2014 Huck Institutes Graduate Enrichment Awards.
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Sep 28, 2015
Interdisciplinary graduate training at Penn State enhanced by NIH supplemental award
An $80,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with matching support from the University, will fund five years of advanced training in data reproducibility and entrepreneurship.
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Jul 15, 2015
Announcing Huck Dissertation Research Grant 2015 winners
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is pleased to announce the recipients of the Huck Dissertation Research Grants for 2015.
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Apr 16, 2015
Researchers discover gene that controls melting point of cocoa butter
The discovery of a gene involved in determining the melting point of cocoa butter -- a critical attribute of the substance widely used in foods and pharmaceuticals -- will likely lead to new and improved products, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
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Apr 14, 2015
Schreyer Scholar Evanitsky studies past with hopes of preserving the future
Research project, with George Perry, on Eastern mountain lion uses ancient DNA sample from 'Original Nittany Lion'
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