Julio Urbina, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The award, $488,000 over five years, will fund the proposal "A Cognitive VHF Radar System Approach to Study Ionospheric Irregularities." (more)
Anne Thompson, professor of meteorology at Penn State, is a recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to work in South Africa. Her work builds international networks to study the vertical structure of ozone and air quality that helps NASA to evaluate and validate measurements from polar orbiting satellites. (more)
Four faculty members in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences -- David Mortensen, William Curran, Sjoerd Duiker and Jeffrey Hyde -- and graduate student Matthew Ryan were honored Feb. 7 by the Weed Science Society of America for their outstanding contributions to the field of weed science. (more)
A Penn State faculty member will address technological advances, the ever-increasing use of social media and what "smart" technologies mean for users during a keynote address at an international communications conference. (more)
Michael D. Michalisin, professor of management and business program coordinator at Penn State Worthington Scranton, had an article he co-authored appear as the lead article in the Journal of Business Strategies. (more)
A researcher in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has been awarded a $1 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture for his investigation of anthracnose disease in sorghum. The research is important because there is increasing interest in the evaluation and promotion of sorghum as a sustainable bioenergy crop substitute for corn (maize), according to principal investigator Surinder Chopra, associate professor of maize genetics. Anthracnose stalk rot and leaf blight are among the most important diseases of corn and sorghum, causing about 5 percent loss annually. (more)
John Gamble, distinguished professor of political science and international law at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has been named chair of the International Law Association's new Teaching of International Law Interest Group. (more)
Diane M. Disney, professor of management at Penn State Brandywine, has been elected vice chair of the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). Chartered by Congress as an independent, non-partisan organization, the National Academy works to improve the quality, performance and accountability of federal, state and local government. (more)
Wen Ching (Winnie) Li, a professor of mathematics at Penn State, has been awarded the 2010 Chern Prize in Mathematics by the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians for her outstanding contributions to the field. Established in 2001 in honor of Professor Shing-Shen Chern, one of the greatest geometers and Chinese mathematicians of the 20th century, the Chern Prize in Mathematics is presented every three years to mathematicians of Chinese descent who have made exceptional contributions to mathematical research or to public service activities in support of mathematics. (more)
