News
Aug 13, 2012
Million-dollar grant will fund research into cancer-fighting nanotechnology
The Penn State College of Medicine has been awarded a $1 million research grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health's CURE program, earmarked for the development of a cancer treatment with commercialization potential.
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Aug 13, 2012
IST researchers examine interplay of cognition, physiology and behavior
Researchers at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, including Huck Institutes faculty member Frank Ritter, are using cognitive architecture " a theory of human cognition implemented as a computer simulation program " to understand how cognitive processes interact with biological systems and influence social behavior.
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Aug 13, 2012
Life Sciences Building named for J. Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck
Nearly 60 years after Lloyd and Dottie Huck's first donation to their alma mater, Penn State's Board of Trustees on July 13 honored the couple's longtime service and philanthropy to Penn State through the newly renamed J. Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck Life Sciences Building.
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Aug 01, 2012
Vaccine research shows vigilance is needed against evolution of more-virulent malaria
Research conducted by Penn State's Andrew Read reveals that malaria parasites evolve to become more virulent in response to their hosts being immunized with a critical component of several candidate human malaria vaccines which are currently in clinical trials.
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Aug 01, 2012
Polar bear evolution tracked climate change, new DNA study suggests
An international study " led by Penn State's Stephan Schuster and Web Miller and the University at Buffalo's Charlotte Lindqvist " includes an analysis of newly sequenced polar bear genomes that provides important clues about the species' evolution, suggesting that climate change and genetic exchange with brown bears helped create the polar bear as we know it today.
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Jul 29, 2012
Opening for faculty position in cellular and molecular imaging
The Department of Bioengineering at Penn State University seeks to hire a full-time faculty member at the level of Associate or Full Professor in the area of cellular and molecular imaging.
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Jul 23, 2012
New TEMs coming soon to the Millennium Science Complex
Penn State will install two new transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) in the Materials Research Institute's Materials Characterization Lab and the Huck Institutes' Microscopy and Cytometry Facility.
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Jul 23, 2012
New laser capture microdissection system coming soon to the Microscopy and Cytometry Facility
The Huck Institutes have acquired a Zeiss PALM MicroBeam system, which will be delivered in late July 2012 to the Microscopy and Cytometry Facility located in the Millennium Science Complex.
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Jul 17, 2012
Carsten Krebs receives an Early Career Award from the Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry
The prize is considered to be the signature award in the field of biological inorganic chemistry, and is awarded to the most meritorious scientist who has completed no more than 15 years of distinguished research in the field.
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Jul 17, 2012
Huck Institutes infectious disease researcher is consulted on accuracy of "Contagion" film
Marcel Salathe of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics discusses epidemiology and global pandemics on "Did They Get it Right?"
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