Still Life
University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
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
A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the development of an innovative anti-cancer drug that effectively targets unhealthy, cancerous tissue without damaging healthy, non-cancerous tissue and vital organs. The research will be published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. (more)
John Asbury, an assistant professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has been honored with a Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research award. The award is designed "to bolster the nation's scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years, when many scientists do their most formative work." The award also aims to provide scientists with incentives to focus on fields of research that are a high priority to the Department of Energy and to the United States. (more)
Philip C. Bevilacqua, professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has been honored with the 2012 C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Eberly College of Science Alumni Society. Instituted in 1972 and named in honor of Clarence I. Noll, dean of the college from 1965 to 1971, the award is the highest honor for undergraduate teaching in the college. Students, faculty members, and alumni nominate outstanding faculty members who best exemplify the key characteristics of a Penn State educator, and a committee of students and faculty members select among nominees. (more)
Montour High School won the 17th annual Penn State Beaver/Midwestern Pennsylvania Association of Science Teachers (MidPAST) Science Challenge held on campus earlier this month. The second place team was from New Brighton High School, and the third place team was from South Side High School. The event drew a total of 32 students from eight area high schools. All winners received a gift card from the Beaver Valley Mall. Other participants were from Ambridge, Blackhawk, Ellwood City, Riverside, and Western Beaver High Schools. For information about the annual event, contact Michael Hay, associate professor of chemistry at Beaver campus and co-coordinator of the Science Challenge, at mth7@psu.edu or 724-773-3876.
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, a professor of chemistry and the Eberly Professor of Biotechnology at Penn State, has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hammes-Schiffer is an acknowledged world leader in theoretical chemistry whose research spans the fields of chemistry, physics, biology and computer science. Her research has important implications for the development of alternative energy sources such as solar cells, as well as for protein engineering and drug design. (more)
Compelling evidence of the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea corals will be published online in the Early Edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week beginning March 26. The diverse team of researchers, led by Penn State Professor of Biology Charles Fisher, used a wide range of underwater vehicles, including the research submarine Alvin, to investigate the corals. They also used comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography to determine precisely the source of the petroleum hydrocarbons they found. (more)
Lasse Jensen, an assistant professor of chemistry at Penn State, has been selected to receive an American Chemical Society (ACS) Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for 2012. The award program provides a monetary prize for up to four outstanding tenure-track junior faculty members to present their work at ACS National Meetings. (more)
Penn State's Board of Trustees Friday (March 16) approved the appointment of Stantec, of Butler, Pa., as architects for renovations of the Mueller and Whitmore Laboratories on the University Park campus. (more)
Scott Phillips, an assistant professor of chemistry at Penn State and holder of the Martarano Career Development Professorship, has been honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow award in recognition of his research accomplishments. Sloan Research Fellowships are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in seven fields of science: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and physics. (more)
Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State, has been selected to receive the 2012 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Physical Sciences. Established in 1980, the award recognizes scholarly or creative excellence represented by a single contribution or a series of contributions around a coherent theme. A committee of faculty peers reviews nominations and selects candidates. (more)
