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Jul 17, 2012
Penn State professor receives $500,000 grant for breast cancer research
Andrea Mastro was awarded the grant by the U.S. Army Medical and Materiel Command Breast Cancer Program in order to further her study of bone metastasis.
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Jul 17, 2012
Huck Institutes faculty member receives $100,000 grant from NFL Charities to advance research on concussions in children
Semyon Slobounov aims to find out whether children suffering from concussions recover faster and have a better prognosis than young adults.
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Jul 17, 2012
Interdisciplinary research looks at whole-farm sustainability
Heather Karsten leads the Sustainable Dairy Cropping Systems research project " a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to managing whole-farm sustainability through conservation of soil, nutrients, biodiversity and energy.
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Jul 17, 2012
Facing modern forest management challenges: mitigation, adaptation
James Finley discusses the present state and future outlook of woodlands in the eastern United States.
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Jul 17, 2012
Exposure to violence has long-term stress effects among adolescents
Elizabeth Susman and colleagues find enduring negative effects of exposure to violence up to a year after the initial event.
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Jul 17, 2012
Penn State mourns alumni leader and philanthropist Verne Willaman
Penn State, the Eberly College of Science, and the Huck Institutes have lost a leading advocate and supporter with the passing of Verne M. Willaman, a class of 1951 graduate and retired chairman and president of Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation.
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Jul 17, 2012
Acoustic tweezers capture tiny creatures with ultrasound
A team of bioengineers and biochemists including Tony Jun Huang and Steven Benkovic has created a dime-sized device that uses ultrasound to manipulate cells and small organisms.
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Jun 25, 2012
Penn State is awarded a $5.8 million grant to expand its Galaxy biomedical analysis software
Anton Nekrutenko of the Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, with co-developer James Taylor of Emory University, will continue to build new functionality into the Galaxy resource.
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Jun 20, 2012
Crowdbreaks tracks disease trends through social media
The Salathe research group in the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and the HealthMap team at Boston Children's Hospital collaborate to crowd-source disease surveillance using aggregated Twitter feeds, user-driven data refinement, and machine-learning algorithms.
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Jun 18, 2012
HITS Fund is an initial success, set to make first payouts
Following a flood of outstanding proposals, the Huck Institutes' seed fund for innovative and transformational research is set to launch its inaugural round of projects with additional funding from the Eberly College of Science and the Materials Research Institute.
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