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Dual-energy harvesting device could power future wireless medical implants

A new wireless charging device developed by Penn State scientists could dramatically improve powering capability for implants while still being safe for our bodies, the researchers said.

Bioethics Program Director Jonathan Marks named a Hastings Center fellow

Penn State Bioethics Program Director Jonathan H. Marks has been named a fellow by the Hastings Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization devoted to informing policy, practice and knowledge of ethical issues in health, science and technology

Common plant could help reduce food insecurity, researchers find

Fast-growing aquatic fern has the nutritional content to serve as a potentially vital food source after a catastrophe and could be relevant now

Penn State chemist Eric Nacsa receives 2024 NSF CAREER Award

Eric Nacsa, assistant professor of chemistry, has been honored with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

Committee advances plan to rename Chemistry Building as 'Benkovic Building'

The Chemistry Building at the University Park campus will be renamed in honor of the careerlong scholarly impact of Stephen Benkovic, Atherton Professor of Chemistry

Penn State biologist Tom Stewart honored with early-career investigator award

Thomas Stewart, assistant professor of biology in the Eberly College of Science at Penn State, has been honored with the 2024 W.M. Cobb Award in Morphological Sciences by the American Association for Anatomy

Penn State molecular biologist Joseph Reese named distinguished professor

Joseph Reese, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been selected to receive the title of Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Penn State biochemist Carsten Krebs named distinguished professor

Carsten Krebs, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, has been selected to receive the title of Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Lab Bench to Commercialization 2024 grant recipients announced

Four projects led by researchers in the Penn State Eberly College of Science have been selected to receive Lab Bench to Commercialization (LB2C) grants in 2024

Heard on campus: Nikki Crowley on 30 years of neuroscience advances

Nikki Crowley recently spoke at the Ashtekar Frontiers of Science, an annual public lecture series held by the Eberly College of Science, on 30 years of advances in cell signaling and neuroscience