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Dec 04, 2012
Donald Bryant elected to the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Microbiology
The three-year term is an elected position that is voted upon by the membership of the Academy " the honorific arm of the American Society for Microbiology.
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Nov 11, 2012
Scott Showalter receives the inaugural Eastern Analytical Society New Faculty Award in NMR Spectroscopy
The award recognizes outstanding contributions by new faculty to the development of the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
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Nov 08, 2012
Chocolate genome research is good for farmers, the environment, and sweet lovers
Using genome sequencing programs and computer clusters at Penn State and abroad, Mark Guiltinan and colleagues have mapped the cacao genome and are working to breed better, more disease-resistant cacao plants.
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Nov 04, 2012
Awards announced: Shared Technology Facilities pilot projects
The first round of funded projects will receive up to $10,000 per award.
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Oct 30, 2012
Interaction of genes and environment influences obesity in children
Kathleen Keller and colleagues at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine find that while neither genes nor the environment alone can predict obesity in children, a strong relationship emerges when these factors are considered together.
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Oct 30, 2012
Students get unique environmental research experience in Spain
Over the past two years, Margot and Jason Kaye have coordinated trips to Madrid, Spain, for students in the College of Agricultural Sciences to conduct research in global climate change ecology.
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Oct 30, 2012
Individual gene differences can be tested in zebrafish
Keith Cheng and his lab are using the zebrafish to test a class of unique individual genetic differences in humans, in order to better understand the biological results of those differences.
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Oct 29, 2012
NSF grant seeks to replicate human pattern recognition in computers
Yanxi Liu and Rick Gilmore will collaborate with Stanford's Anthony Norcia to bridge the gap between how humans and computers perceive and process visual patterns.
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Oct 22, 2012
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp is featured in a new Research Unplugged video
This excerpt from the October 11 session of Research Unplugged features a discussion of the role of dopamine in behavioral patterns of children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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Oct 16, 2012
Penn State Profiles is launched at University Park
Software tool for research networking and expertise mining shows traditional directory information and illustrates how researchers are connected to one another in the broader community.
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