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Aug 30, 2016
New Innovation Gateway connects researchers to industry funding
Penn State’s Office of Industrial Partnerships (OIP) has announced the creation of a new, interactive online platform that will help the University’s researchers collaborate better with industry, increase commercialization opportunities and obtain new funding sources for research projects.
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Aug 30, 2016
Katriona Shea elected Fellow of Ecological Society of America
Katriona Shea -- Alumni Professor in the Biological Sciences at Penn State, and faculty member in the Huck Institutes' Ecology IGDP -- has been elected as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA).
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Aug 28, 2016
Nina Jablonski to deliver inaugural Liberal Arts First-Year Lecture
Nina Jablonski, Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology, will deliver the inaugural Liberal Arts First-Year Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, in 129 Waring Commons. The theme of Jablonski's presentation will be “You, the Liberal Arts, and the Human Condition.â€
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Aug 25, 2016
Did smoking kill the Neanderthals?
Smoke inhalation would have been a serious threat for early man, due to campfires. But it appears that modern humans have evolved a reduced sensitivity to the chemicals in smoke so that it doesn’t trigger so much inflammatory damage to our airways.
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Aug 24, 2016
Coral conservation efforts aided by computer simulations
New research shows that endangered corals in the eastern Pacific Ocean are isolated from healthy coral populations in the west
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Aug 15, 2016
Ecology Institute announces call for new research center proposals
The Ecology Institute has established a modest funding program to help support the development of new centers that have a central ecological theme. The aim is to add value to ongoing basic and applied ecological research and to foster new collaborations across the Penn State community.
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Aug 02, 2016
Where there's smoke and a mutation there may be an evolutionary edge for humans
A genetic mutation may have helped modern humans adapt to smoke exposure from fires and perhaps sparked an evolutionary advantage over their archaic competitors, including Neandertals, according to a team of researchers.
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Aug 01, 2016
Announcing Huck Graduate Research Innovation Grant recipients for 2016
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of Huck Graduate Research Innovation (GRI) Grants.
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Aug 01, 2016
Tang wins Outstanding Oral Poster Prize
Yin Tang, a graduate student in the Bioinformatics and Genomics program who is co-advised by Sally Assmann and Phil Bevilacqua, recently won a University of California, Berkeley Center for Computational Biology Outstanding Oral Poster Prize for his presentation at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2016 meeting in Orlando, Florida.
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Jul 31, 2016
Penn State researcher awarded grant to study Zika transmission in United States
The Zika virus is appearing more frequently in the United States, including a locally transmitted outbreak in Florida, and people are concerned. Now the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a Penn State researcher a grant to test whether common American mosquitoes can carry the virus.
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