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Mar 14, 2012
Materials Visualization Competition announced for 2012
All Penn State researchers working on materials-related projects are eligible to enter. Deadline for submission is March 28, 2012.
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Mar 13, 2012
Faculty Research Expertise Database (FRED) to be replaced by Penn State Profiles
The Faculty Research Expertise Database (FRED) is scheduled to be decommissioned, and will be replaced on April 2, 2012 by Penn State Profiles.
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Mar 04, 2012
Two Huck Institutes faculty members to speak at Research Unplugged
Keith Cheng and Mary Poss will discuss genetics and virology, respectively.
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Mar 01, 2012
Wine ratings are a product of experts' sensitive taste
A team of researchers that includes Huck Institutes faculty member John Hayes has found empirical evidence that wine experts tend to be particularly sensitive to small taste differences, thereby casting doubt on the consumer utility of experts' wine ratings and recommendations.
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Mar 01, 2012
College of Medicine researchers featured in recent media
Huck Institutes faculty members Wafik El-Deiry, James Broach and Xuemei Huang have each been featured in recent Penn State publications.
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Feb 23, 2012
Huck Institutes establish the Huck Innovative & Transformational Seed (HITS) Fund
Through the establishment of the HITS Fund, the Huck Institutes seek to support truly innovative and transformational research within the life sciences arena at Penn State.
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Feb 14, 2012
Researchers develop app for predicting effects of coffee and caffeine
Penn State professor and Huck Institutes faculty member Frank Ritter, and fellow professor Kuo-Chuan Yeh, have developed the Caffeine Zone app for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
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Feb 09, 2012
Department of Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seek to hire junior faculty
Position in structural biochemistry with emphasis on X-ray crystallography and related methods
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Feb 09, 2012
Researchers seek participants for prostate cancer study
Huck Institutes faculty member Karam El-Bayoumy and fellow researchers from the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute are studying the effects of selenium on antigen levels and other markers.
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Feb 08, 2012
Andrew Read appointed Alumni Professor in Biological Sciences
The Penn State professor and director of the Huck Institutes' Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics has been recognized for excellence in teaching.
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