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Jun 09, 2020

Research team to study food resilience in the face of catastrophic global events

An interdisciplinary team of Penn State professors has received $3 million from Open Philanthropy to study food resilience in the face of potentially catastrophic global events.

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Jan 20, 2020

Center Seeks Proposals for 2020 IMPACT Seed Grants in Industrial Biotechnology

Students from all majors are welcome to apply although they must partner with a faculty or staff member as Principal Investigator.

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May 24, 2019

First Annual Seed Grant Recipients Announced by the Center of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology

Seed Grant funding allows faculty at Penn State to initiate research in novel areas of biotechnology.

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Apr 12, 2019

New SCATTIRSTORM microscope could improve bioenergy production

The construction of a new multimodal optical microscope, SCATTIRSTORM, that could enable more efficient bioenergy production, is the focus of a three-year, $1.5 million, U.S. Department of Energy grant awarded to three Penn State researchers.

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