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Jun 02, 2013
Debashis Ghosh Honored with the Mortimer Spiegelman Award of the American Public Health Association
Penn State statistics professor Debashis Ghosh has been honored with the Mortimer Spiegelman Award of the American Public Health Association.
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May 27, 2013
Looking back at the 11th Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease Conference
One attendee, Stanford scientist James Holland Jones, calls the conference "quite possibly the best meeting I have ever attended".
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May 23, 2013
Study confirms U.S. amphibian populations declining at rapid rate
The first-ever estimate of how fast frogs, toads and salamanders in the United States are disappearing from their habitats a study contributed to by Huck Institutes affiliate David Miller reveals they are vanishing at an alarming and rapid rate.
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May 22, 2013
Vivek Narayan and Walter Jackson III receive IID travel awards
Vivek Narayan and Walter Jackson III, two Ph.D. candidates in the Huck Institutes' Immunology and Infectious Diseases (IID) program, were the recipients of recent IID travel awards.
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May 22, 2013
Huck Institutes IID graduate student awarded for innovative research
Walter Jackson III, a Ph.D. candidate in the Huck Institutes' Immunology and Infectious Diseases (IID) program, is the recipient of the 2013 Robert T. Simpson Graduate Award for Innovative Research.
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May 21, 2013
Mosquito behavior may be immune response, not parasite manipulation
What appears to be parasite manipulation may simply be part of malaria-carrying mosquitoes' immune response, according to a group of Penn State entomologists including Huck Institutes affiliates Lauren Cator, Simon Blanford, Courtney Murdock, Tom Baker, Andrew Read, and Matt Thomas.
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May 21, 2013
Getting to the bottom of the zombie ant phenomenon
While unraveling a dramatic case of mind control, Huck Institutes affiliate David Hughes is taking calls from Hollywood and gaining new insights into the role behavior plays in spreading disease.
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May 19, 2013
Environmental Law Institute recognizes Penn State wetlands scientist
Robert Brooks, a wetlands scientist at Penn State and a Huck Institutes faculty affiliate, has received the 2013 National Wetlands Award for Science Research.
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May 14, 2013
Millennium Science Complex awarded prestigious LEED green building certification
The Millennium Science Complex has been awarded LEED Gold certification established by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI).
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May 09, 2013
Penn State professor finding new ways to repair nerve injuries
Nerve injury is a major health problem, with 12,000 new injuries occurring in the U.S. each year. Recovery can be difficult or impossible, which is why Huck Institutes affiliate Mohammad Reza Abidian is focusing his research on special materials called "conducting polymers," which could one day offer a solution to these injuries.
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