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Feb 13, 2025
Team Dynamics course to be available for Huck graduate students in Fall 2025
A unique team-building and leadership course, taught by faculty from the Smeal College of Business MBA program, is available for a limited number of Huck graduate students next fall.
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Feb 11, 2025
Sustainable Labs Program increases participant engagement, welcomes new labs
Two upcoming virtual sessions will cover how labs can learn more and join next year’s cohort.
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Feb 07, 2025
Native bee populations can bounce back after honey bees move out
Managed honey bees have the potential to affect native bee populations when they are introduced to a new area, but a study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that, under certain conditions, the native bees can bounce back if the apiaries are moved away.
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Jan 28, 2025
López-Uribe awarded presidential honor for early career scientists
Margarita López-Uribe, the Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor of Entomology in the College of Agricultural Sciences, was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Biden earlier this month.
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Jan 27, 2025
Three faculty receive Presidential Early Career Award for scientists, engineers
Three Penn State researchers have been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the White House announced on Jan. 14.
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Jan 23, 2025
$17.9M NIH grant to research neurodevelopment disorders
Illuminating key biological pathways that underlie neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is the goal of a new five-year, $17.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Mental Health to a national team of researchers.
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Jan 24, 2025
Predicting lab earthquakes with physics-informed artificial intelligence
By refining an artificial intelligence approach to predicting earthquakes in the laboratory, or labquakes, engineers at Penn State are paving the way to one day help forecast natural earthquakes.
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Jan 23, 2025
‘Buzz me in:’ Bees wearing itty bitty QR codes reveal hive secrets
Researchers attached QR codes to the backs of thousands of bees to track when and for how long they left their hives.
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Jan 08, 2025
Predicting the progression of autoimmune disease with AI
A new artificial intelligence model more accurately predicts who — among those with preclinical symptoms of autoimmune disease — will proceed to advanced disease stage.
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Jan 02, 2025
Pet dogs often overlooked as spreader of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella
A team of Penn State researchers have found that household dogs are an overlooked transmission point for zoonotic pathogens such as nontyphoidal Salmonella.
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