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Studying rare genetic mutations with metabolomics

The Hanna-Rose Lab’s collaboration with the Metabolomics Facility yields new discoveries, projects, and funding.

Using metabolomics to discern nutrients' influence on immunity

The Cantorna Lab's collaboration with the Metabolomics Facility yields new insights.

Call for submissions: "Technology enabling discovery"

Are you a Huck Institutes-funded faculty or graduate student researcher? Has working with one of the Huck Institutes' instrumentation facilities enabled you to make a newsworthy discovery? We want to hear from you!

Talk on student mental health will kick off "Research Unplugged"

"Research Unplugged," a series of talks by Penn State faculty and staff who share their expertise on science, technology and culture with the community, will start March 16.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Limited submission: Pathways to Stop Diabetes

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Pathways to Stop Diabetes competition.

$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.