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Jan 16, 2026
Penn State Neuroscience Institute announces spring 2026 speakers
Hosted in conjunction with the Neuroscience Intercollege Graduate Degree Program, the spring 2026 seminar series brings together an international slate of leading experts in neuroscience, biodevices and brain research.
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Jan 16, 2026
Investigating the microbiome’s role in intestinal disorder in pregnancy
Jessica Grembi, an assistant professor of pharmacology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, has received a $500,000 grant from the Gates Foundation to investigate the role of the microbiome in environmental enteropathy — a condition characterized by inflammation of the small intestine that affects nutrient absorption.
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Jan 14, 2026
Penn State Extension AI tool, Tilva, expands access to research-based guidance
Penn State Extension unveiled a new artificial intelligence-powered tool called Tilva at the 2026 Pennsylvania Farm Show. Tilva is aimed at giving farmers around-the-clock access to trusted answers.
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Jan 13, 2026
$1.6M to fund international study on built environment, malaria
A team of researchers from Penn State and Warwick University has been awarded a $1.6 million international Belmont Forum’s Collaborative Research Action project by the U.S. National Science Foundation and UK Research and Innovation’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Led by Penn State researchers, the project will explore how building design, infrastructure and development decisions can help reduce malaria risk worldwide.
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Jan 13, 2026
Female athlete health, well-being focus of updated report
When active and athletic girls and women don’t eat enough food to meet their body’s energy needs, it can disrupt key systems in the body and lead to irregular or absent menstrual cycles and impaired bone health, including osteoporosis and bone stress injuries.
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Jan 12, 2026
From brain scans to alloys: Teaching AI to make sense of complex research data
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to analyze medical images, materials data and scientific measurements, but many systems struggle when real-world data do not match ideal conditions. To address this issue, Penn State researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence framework with potential implications for fields ranging from Alzheimer’s disease research to advanced materials design.
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Jan 08, 2026
Huck Institutes seeks faculty applicants for leadership fellows program
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences seeks to appoint one or two Leadership Fellows with a strong background in interdisciplinary research for a one-year term, with the possibility for an additional year extension. This program is aimed at providing professional development and a potential pathway to Penn State leadership for tenured and non-tenure-line life sciences faculty (at the associate or professor level only). The deadline to apply is Feb. 13.
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Jan 07, 2026
Medical, doctoral student earns NIH fellowship
Victoria Nudell, a doctoral and medical student in the Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences Graduate Program and the Medical Scientist Training Program at the College of Medicine, has received a highly competitive fellowship from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
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Jan 05, 2026
Back pain linked to worse sleep years later in men over 65, according to study
About half of older men suffer from sleep problems, back pain or both, according to Soomi Lee, associate professor of human development and family studies at Penn State. Lee recently led a study to investigate whether one precedes the other and found that back problems can increase sleep problems years later in men over 65 years old.
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Jan 05, 2026
Moving neural implant research closer to commercialization
A startup based on research conducted at Penn State is developing a soft, minimally invasive neural implant intended to reduce inflammation and improve communication with the brain for individuals with drug-resistant epilepsy or living with paralysis.
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