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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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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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