January 2024

HUCK LEADERSHIP NEWS

Patrick Drew named Huck Institutes associate director

With his strong background in multiple fields, Drew’s career and activities exemplify Huck’s culture of ambitious, innovative, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.



Huck Leadership Fellows Program Currently Accepting Applications

Huck seeks 1-2 energetic Leadership Fellows with a strong background in interdisciplinary research. The deadline to apply is February 12, 2024.


HUCK RESEARCH NEWS

Penn State, QIAGEN announce strategic partnership to advance microbiome sciences

The alliance establishes a multi-layered partnership spanning research, education, and outreach.



$4M grant funds project to make robotic prostheses more like biological limbs

A team led by Xiaogang Hu aims to make powered prosthetic hands more intuitive for the users by improving neural processes behind human-robot interactions.



Penn State researchers announce new comprehensive -Omics database

A group of Penn State scientists have announced kmerDB, an extensive catalogue of sequence information representing all domains of life.



Jo Setchell to present 2024 Darwin Day Lecture

Prof. Jo Setchell, Department of Anthropology, Durham University will present “Sexual Selection and the Differences Between the Sexes in Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx).


HUCK MEDIA
 


Podcast reveals the scale and complexity of global water challenges

In the latest episode of Tracking Traits, Penn State undergrad Thomas Sontag interviews associate professor Asher Rosinger about his research, which explores how people in different parts of the world meet their water needs.

 
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