Still Life
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Children explore career options at University Park
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory and Sciaky, Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries, will establish the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition as a Manufacturing Demonstration Facility under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Open Manufacturing Initiative. The project will receive $3.8 million over four years. (more)
Christopher Griffin, a faculty member in Penn State's Applied Research Lab, has been awarded the Sidney D. Drell Academic Award by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA). The award is one of several achievement awards presented annually by the INSA to outstanding young professionals across the national security and intelligence field. Award winners are nominated by their peers for their leadership, commitment, hard work and dedication to their professional sector. (more)
Michael V. Paul, space systems engineer in Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory, has received a $100,000 grant under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program and been named a Fellow of this recently reformed program in NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist. Paul, who leads the Penn State Lunar Lion team -- part of the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition -- receives his grant for "Non-Radioisotope Power Systems for Sunless Solar System Exploration Missions." Several targets of scientific interest in solar system exploration require nonsolar power sources because of permanent shading from craters or clouds, or extreme distances from the sun. (more)
Moustafa El-Gindy, a senior scientist with the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).El-Gindy is the founder and director of ARL's Vehicle Dynamics and Simulation Research Center. He is also founder and executive director of the International Journal of Heavy Vehicles Systems and serves as chairman of ASME's Vehicle Design Committee. (more)
Lockheed Martin has partnered with Penn State to develop innovative solutions for the energy sector. As part of the corporation's commitment to tackling critical national energy challenges, Lockheed Martin will fund $400,000 of research and development projects at Penn State in 2009. Leveraging a partnership spanning more than 30 years, this latest Lockheed Martin-Penn State collaboration will focus on Smart Grid technology. (more)
For detecting explosives and drugs in airports and other high-risk areas, humans have long relied on sniffer dogs. But dogs are expensive to train, and some environments are too dangerous for their deployment. Chemical sensing technologies developed to replace them have had limited effectiveness. Now, Penn State engineers are working on an artificial nose that is closer to the canine ideal. (more)
