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Mar 09, 2017
Announcing Energy Days at Penn State
Energy Days is an annual conference (May 22–23, 2017) that brings together leaders from across the energy realm, including members of industry, government, non-profits, and academia.
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Mar 07, 2017
Call for submissions: Health and the environment posters
Undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, and faculty are invited to submit their posters on research/scholarly work pertaining to health and the environment, for a special event with Linda Birnbaum, director of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program, who will be presenting beforehand.
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Mar 07, 2017
Discovery rewriting the evolutionary history of the nervous system
Penn State researchers at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences uncover a long-standing, fundamental error in the story of the nervous system’s evolution.
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Mar 05, 2017
Gates Foundation grant boosts malaria research program
An international team, including researchers at Penn State, have received a three-year, $4.7 million supplemental grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance their development of improved therapies for malaria eradication.
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Mar 05, 2017
Limited submission: Pathways to Stop Diabetes
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Pathways to Stop Diabetes competition.
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Mar 02, 2017
$2.35 million grant enables better prediction of infectious disease outbreaks
Researchers at Penn State have received $2.35 million from the National Science Foundation to study disease transmission among animals with a goal of better predicting outbreaks of infectious diseases within humans.
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Mar 01, 2017
Scientists reveal core genes involved in immunity of honey bees
A core set of genes involved in the responses of honey bees to multiple diseases caused by viruses and parasites has been identified by an international team of researchers. The findings provide a better-defined starting point for future studies of honey-bee health, and may help scientists and beekeepers breed honey bees that are more resilient to stress.
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Mar 01, 2017
Limited submission: Partnerships to Achieve Health Equity program
Research Development at the College of Medicine in cooperation with the Office of the Vice President for Research is requesting letters of intent for this limited submission opportunity by noon Monday, March 6.
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Feb 28, 2017
Ecologist Eissenstat receives Black Award for research accomplishments
David Eissenstat, professor of ecosystem management and woody plant physiology in the College of Agricultural Sciences, and chair of the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Penn State was awarded the Jessie C. Black Award for Excellence in Research.
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Feb 27, 2017
Heard on Campus: Anne McKenna
Anne T. McKenna, visiting professor of law at Penn State, presented “Data: Risks, Responsibilities, and Rights†at the Institute for CyberScience Advanced Cyber Infrastructure (ICS-ACI) User Social on February 22, 2017.
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