Monday, March 07, 2011
For the fourth year in a row, ConocoPhillips and Penn State kick off the ConocoPhillips Energy Prize. Their goal is to see who can develop the most original and actionable solutions that can help improve the way the United States develops and uses energy. The competition awards up to $300,000 and recognizes innovative ideas and solutions in three areas: developing new energy sources, improving energy efficiency and combating climate change. Registration for the 2011 ConocoPhillips Energy Prize is open through May 2. (more)
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Jennifer Parker Talwar, associate professor of sociology at Penn State Lehigh Valley, will present a talk on "Entrepreneurialism and the Cultural Anchoring of 'American' Small Business Growth: The Importance of Ethnic Social Structures to Modern Norms of Corporate Efficiency" at the next Faculty Forum lecture at 1 p.m. on Feb. 23, in room 302 at the campus in Center Valley. (more)
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Nine Penn State faculty members were named Fellows of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. (more)
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Elizabeth A. Mellin, assistant professor of counselor education at Penn State, is evaluating a two-year partnership between the University and State College Area School District. The project, titled State College S.U.M.M.I.T., aims to decrease nonacademic barriers to learning and improve access by high school students to local mental health services. (more)
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Six faculty members from the College of Communications were awarded support for research projects from the 2010-11 President's Fund for Research. (more)
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Penn State's research expenditures totaled an all-time high of $780 million for the 2009-10 fiscal year, an increase of about 2 percent over the previous year and a 77 percent increase over the past decade, according to Henry C. Foley, vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School. (more)
Thursday, September 30, 2010
How do women benefit from playing collegiate sports, and what challenges have athletes, coaches and reporters faced since Title IX was enacted in 1972 through the present day? What issues do stadium designers look at from the ground up, and how do today's rowdy fans and post-9/11 security concerns affect structural decisions and game-day operations? Two noontime "Expert Opinion with Graham Spanier" shows on the Big Ten Network aim to find out. (more)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Julie Ealy, associate professor of chemistry at Penn State Lehigh Valley, will be the featured speaker during the semester's first Faculty Forum presentation at 1 p.m. on Oct. 6 in room 302. Ealy will present "A Research Avenue to the Prevention of HIV," and will discuss her recent sabbatical during which she performed research about HIV at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center. (more)
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
A severance tax on natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania would add to the operating costs of gas drilling companies, but the resulting increase in state revenue would yield positive results for the state's economy and population, according to a new report by two researchers at Penn State. (more)
Friday, August 13, 2010
A new report, prepared for the National Academy of Sciences by the National Research Council, ranked the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) as the top U.S. priority for the next large ground-based astronomical facility. "The LSST is one of the most ambitious ground-based astronomical projects ever undertaken," said Larry Ramsey, head of Penn State's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and a member of the LSST Board of Directors. "It promises to provide fundamental advances in many fields of astrophysics, from the identification of potential 'killer asteroids' to the global properties of the universe." The 8.4-meter LSST telescope, to be placed on a mountain in northern Chile, will be equipped with the world's largest digital camera -- 3.2 billion pixels -- to construct a color "movie" of the entire visible sky for studying changes in movement or brightness. (more)
