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The four Penn State Goldwater Scholars are, clockwise from top left, Luc Schrauf, Elisabeth Groff, Zach Badinger and Megan von Abo. Credit: Provided. All Rights Reserved.

Apr 16, 2025

Four Penn State undergraduates earn Goldwater Scholarships

Four Penn State undergraduates were named Goldwater Scholars for 2025-26, based on their outstanding academic merit and research experience. Goldwater Scholars are selected for their potential as leaders in the fields of natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.

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The U.S. National Science Foundation National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences at Penn State recently announced its first cohort of working groups. The center is supporting 10 initial working groups which will conduct research in accordance with open science principles, producing peer-reviewed articles, public datasets and reproducible workflows. The working groups will reuse and integrate diverse datasets, creatively visualized in this illustration, to gain insights about emergent properties that could potentially answer fundamental scientific questions and lead to transformative discoveries. Credit: NicoElNino/Alamy Stock Photo. All Rights Reserved.

Apr 09, 2025

NCEMS working groups to answer molecular and cellular bioscience questions

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences at Penn State aims to drive multidisciplinary collaboration utilizing publicly available research data.

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A multi-institutional team led by Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State, recently received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop the next generation of synthetic blood. Credit: Provided by Dipanjan Pan. All Rights Reserved.

Apr 01, 2025

$2.7M NIH grant to fund next generation of synthetic blood

A multi-institutional team led by Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State, recently received a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop the next generation of synthetic blood.

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Nivetha Gunaseelan has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to condcuct research that could impact how physicians treat brain injuries. Credit: Provided by Dipanjan Pan/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

Apr 01, 2025

Biomedical engineering grad student earns American Heart Association fellowship

The American Heart Association (AHA) awarded Nivetha Gunaseelan, a doctoral candidate studying biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a predoctoral fellowship.

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Sol De Jesus, right, movement disorder neurologist and co-director of the Penn State Health Deep Brain Stimulation Program, performs the health system’s first adaptive DBS activation on patient Deborah Barnhart. Credit: Penn State Health. All Rights Reserved.

Mar 28, 2025

Hershey Medical Center first in Pennsylvania to offer new Parkinson’s treatment

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has become the first hospital in Pennsylvania and one of only 23 in the nation to offer BrainSense adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS), an advanced treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

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Penn State Associate Professor of Psychology Katie Burkhouse and a colleague at Vanderbilt University recently received a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study maternal depression’s potential effect on young children. Credit: Katie Burkhouse . All Rights Reserved.

Mar 10, 2025

Grant to explore maternal depression’s effect on young children

Penn State Associate Professor of Psychology Katie Burkhouse and a colleague at Vanderbilt University recently received a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study maternal depression’s potential effect on young children.

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Feb 25, 2025

GPCR Assay Service Center Opens at Penn State College of Medicine

New facility will enable Penn State researchers to perform large-scale drug screening and signal transduction monitoring

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Thomas Gould and Carlos Novoa in Gould's laboratory at Penn State University Park. Credit: Dennis Maney / Penn State. Creative Commons

Feb 20, 2025

Young adults may be more vulnerable to nicotine addiction than the middle aged

People in their late teens and early 20s may be more sensitive to nicotine and more susceptible to nicotine addiction than middle aged adults, according to a new study in mice from researchers in the Penn State Department of Biobehavioral Health.

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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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A research team at Penn State has developed generative models much like ChatGPT to create accurate birdsongs, which could improve understanding of the structure of birdsong and its underlying neurobiology and lend insight in the neural mechanisms of human language. Credit: Zachery Jin. All Rights Reserved.

Feb 14, 2025

ChatGPT for birdsong may shed light on how language is wired in the human brain

Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method by researchers at Penn State trains on recordings of birds to create accurate birdsongs.

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