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
The Penn State Justice Center for Research, a cooperative venture of the College of the Liberal Arts and Penn State Outreach's Justice and Safety Institute, has received grant funding to study the issues of successful prisoner reintegration into rural communities under the Center for Rural Pennsylvania's 2012 Research Grant Projects. Re-entry is a primary focus of the criminal justice system, yet research related to the rural context of re-entry -- a significant element of Pennsylvania's corrections landscape -- is sorely lacking. (more)
The Office of Undergraduate Education invites applications for the 2012 Undergraduate Summer Discovery Grant program. The deadline for applications is Feb. 10. It is anticipated that about 25 grants in the amount of $2,500 each will be awarded to Penn State undergraduate students for summer research and creative projects. The grants are supported by an endowment from the Penn State Alumni Association and funding from the Office of Undergraduate Education, with additional sponsorship for some awards from colleges. (more)
Penn State is in the fourth year of a grant to support graduate-level study in special education leading to certification, with emphasis on infants, toddlers, and preschoolers who have disabilities and their families. Participants can earn both a master's degree in special education and special education certification concurrently, with an emphasis in early intervention and early childhood special education. (more)
Researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences have been awarded a $2.3 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate how certain cover crops and rotations can improve production of organic commodities. The study's goal is to determine whether diverse cover crop mixtures -- as opposed to a single-species cover cropping -- can enhance ecosystem functions in a corn-soybean-wheat cash crop rotation that produces organic feed and forage. "There has been a lot of regional interest in these mixtures, or cover crop cocktails as they are sometimes called, so we want to provide farmers with information they need to design mixtures that serve them well,"said project leader Jason Kaye, associate professor of soil biogeochemistry (more)
High energy density batteries that significantly reduce size and improve performance and cell life is the goal of the lithium-sulfur cell technology project led by Penn State and funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The $5 million, three-year grant is part of the DOE's Advanced Vehicle Research and Development program, which aims to improving fuel efficiency of next generation vehicles. (more)
A new state-of-the-art instrument -- a precision spectrograph for finding planets in habitable zones around cool, nearby stars -- is being developed at Penn State with support from a new $3.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. "This new Habitable Zone Planet Finder instrument will allow us to detect the existence of planets that are similar in mass to Earth and also are in orbits that allow liquid water to exist on their surfaces," said Suvrath Mahadevan, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and a co-principal investigator of the project. (more)
The Penn State Small Business Development Center has received almost $100,000 in grant money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to open an outreach office in Philipsburg, Pa. to expand services in rural Centre County. During the next year, the grant will be used to provide consulting and business assistance to both existing and start-up businesses in rural Centre County. David Jordan, a business consultant with the SBDC, will serve as the primary business consultant in downtown Philipsburg. The SBDC plans to host a series of low-cost classes in the Philipsburg area for small business owners and entrepreneurs to help bring new ideas and jobs to western Centre County. (more)
The molecular mechanisms that control genetic modifications in specific tissues during plant development are the focus of a National Science Foundation grant for $1.2 million to Surinder Chopra, associate professor of maize genetics in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. (more)
Robert Crassweller, professor of horticulture in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, is part of a $3.8 million, multiuniversity research project to evaluate the wine quality of grapes, with an eye toward improving grape and wine sustainability and economic vitality in the eastern United States. Crassweller will help to evaluate the horticultural characteristics and adaptability of grape varieties grown at Penn State's Fruit Research and Extension Center in Biglerville and Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center in North East for production in Pennsylvania. He also will work with the Penn State Extension enologist to evaluate wines made from the grapes. (more)
The Penn State Justice Center for Research, a cooperative venture of the College of the Liberal Arts and Penn State Outreach's Justice and Safety Institute, has received more than $100,000 in grant funding to study criminal justice topics and their public policy implications under the Center for Rural Pennsylvania's 2011 Research Grant Projects. (more)
