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May 14, 2012

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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May 09, 2012

David Hughes receives a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Penn State biology and entomology professor and Huck Institutes faculty member has been granted funding to pursue his innovative global health and development research project, entitled "Taking out the bodyguards: a novel solution to ag disease."

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May 07, 2012

Patrick Drew is working toward a better understanding of the brain's complex infrastructure

He can't see inside your brain, but Dr. Drew has found a way to see inside a mouse's brain and by doing so, he is gaining new insights into how the human brain may function.

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Apr 23, 2012

Binge eating may lead to other addiction-like behaviors

Researchers at the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine " including Huck Institutes faculty member Patricia Grigson " find that a history of binge eating may make an individual more likely to exhibit other addiction-like behaviors including substance abuse.

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Mar 01, 2012

Wine ratings are a product of experts' sensitive taste

A team of researchers that includes Huck Institutes faculty member John Hayes has found empirical evidence that wine experts tend to be particularly sensitive to small taste differences, thereby casting doubt on the consumer utility of experts' wine ratings and recommendations.

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Mar 01, 2012

College of Medicine researchers featured in recent media

Huck Institutes faculty members Wafik El-Deiry, James Broach and Xuemei Huang have each been featured in recent Penn State publications.

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Feb 14, 2012

Researchers develop app for predicting effects of coffee and caffeine

Penn State professor and Huck Institutes faculty member Frank Ritter, and fellow professor Kuo-Chuan Yeh, have developed the Caffeine Zone app for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

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Jan 15, 2012

Two Huck Institutes faculty members named AAAS Fellows

Consuelo De Moraes and Steven Schiff honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Aug 03, 2010

Ancient gene family linked to the future of epileptic seizures

A potassium-channel gene belonging to an ancient gene family more than 542 million years old is opening new avenues in epilepsy research, and may one day allow researchers to develop more effective drugs with fewer side effects for the treatment of epileptic seizures.

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May 09, 2010

Congratulations to the Neuroscience Pilot Project Recipients

11 projects from the 36 submissions were chosen to be funded in the amount of $559,631.

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