Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Three industry-led teams including Penn State and four other research universities have received contracts to provide a range of research and engineering services to the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The collective value of the three contracts is expected to exceed $465 million over a five-year period. NETL, part of the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratory system, conducts research in coal, natural gas, and oil technologies. Penn State faculty and graduate students will collaborate on carbon capture and sequestration, unconventional fossil fuel sources, highly efficient energy conversion technologies, environmental and economic impacts, and similar areas that figure prominently in the nation's quest for cleaner sources of energy and energy security.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Thor Wasbotten has been named assistant dean for student media and online operations in the College of Communications, effective Jan. 1.
Wasbotten joined the Penn State faculty in 2004, bringing more than a decade of award-winning professional experience to his role as senior lecturer and general manager of television operations.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
For the second consecutive year, the Penn State Football program is at the head of the class in ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America selections. Three Nittany Lions have repeated their Academic All-America accolades on the 2009 team: senior linebacker Josh Hull (Millheim), senior kick snapper Andrew Pitz (Bettendorf, Iowa) and junior center Stefen Wisniewski (Bridgeville). Hull and Pitz were 2008 first team honorees and Wisniewski was a second team selection last year.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Dan Krupinsky and Tommy DeVito are getting national exposure while strengthening their resumes producing and announcing for Penn State Women's volleyball. Both seniors, the two are getting hands-on, real-world experience thanks to Penn State's athletic department and the Big Ten Network.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
David Hall, professor of information sciences and technology and director of Penn State's Center for Network-Centric Cognition and Information Fusion (NC2IF), will assume interim leadership of the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) on Jan. 1. Hall joined the College of IST in 2001 and previously served as associate dean for research and graduate programs. In that capacity, he was responsible for overseeing the college's doctoral and master's degree programs, as well as research grant administration and leadership of faculty research efforts.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Cell phones to their ears, a team of research participants will report their interpersonal interactions in real time to provide a better view of human behavior thanks to a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Aging as part of the National Institutes of Health's American Recover and Reinvestment Act funding.
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