Thursday, March 03, 2011
A plant geneticist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has received a $3.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop genomics resources to address forest-health issues affecting hardwood trees. Principal investigator John Carlson, professor of molecular genetics in the college's School of Forest Resources and director of the Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics, explained that the research is needed because of the increasing incidence of introduced exotic pests, diseases and invasive plants -- combined with climate change and forest fragmentation -- threatening the sustainability of forest ecosystems. (more)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.85 million grant to a team of Penn State faculty for a carbon research/science education collaboration with two Pennsylvania school districts. The five-year Carbon Educators and Researchers Together for Humanity (CarbonEARTH) project teams Penn State Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduate students with elementary and middle school science teachers from the rural Phillipsburg and the urban Harrisburg school districts. CarbonEARTH will use the interdisciplinary theme of carbon, broadly construed, as a unifying platform for investigation, discovery, training and education. (more)
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Penn State's Center for Nanoscale Science has received a six-year, $13.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue research and educational activities in its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). "The goal of the Center is to design and create new materials with unprecedented properties and functions, starting with nanometer-scale building blocks," said Thomas Mallouk, the DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry and Physics at Penn State and director of the MRSEC. The grant will support a range of projects -- especially those in nanotechnology -- and including organic solar cells, fuel cells and novel electronic materials, such as micro-scalpels and magnetic memories for silicon chips. (more)
