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Sep 03, 2012
Call for proposals: Shared Technology Facilities pilot projects
Principal investigators are eligible for up to $10,000 per proposal; deadline for submissions is October 1, 2012.
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Aug 30, 2012
Announcing the John Snow Biomedical Seminars
A lecture and open forum for discussing broader issues in biomedical sciences, to be held on the first Thursday of each month at 5:15pm
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Aug 29, 2012
Graduate Program Research Retreat
Projects by faculty and graduate students featured at second annual event
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Aug 29, 2012
ScholarSphere repository will enable research sharing and discovery
On September 24, Penn State will launch a new online repository service which will allow users to securely collect, preserve, and share scholarly works with the Penn State community and the world.
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Aug 27, 2012
Darwin was right: the Eastern Pacific Barrier is virtually impassable by coral species
Iliana Baums and colleagues have discovered that a coral species found in abundance from Indonesia eastward to Fiji, Samoa, and the Line Islands rarely crosses the Eastern Pacific Barrier toward the coast of the Americas.
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Aug 26, 2012
Is it possible to save coral reefs?
Coral reefs are suffering from overfishing and other types of resource exploitation, and are being degraded by pollution from sewage and agricultural runoff as well as by increasing sea-surface temperatures and acidification as a result of global warming.
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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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