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Dec 04, 2012

Sarah Assmann invited to write Coulter Review paper for the International Journal of Plant Sciences

This inaugural Coulter Review article is scheduled for publication in the January 2013 issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences.

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Dec 04, 2012

Donald Bryant elected to the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Microbiology

The three-year term is an elected position that is voted upon by the membership of the Academy " the honorific arm of the American Society for Microbiology.

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Nov 08, 2012

Chocolate genome research is good for farmers, the environment, and sweet lovers

Using genome sequencing programs and computer clusters at Penn State and abroad, Mark Guiltinan and colleagues have mapped the cacao genome and are working to breed better, more disease-resistant cacao plants.

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May 07, 2012

Philip C. Bevilacqua is awarded the C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Bevilacqua, a professor of chemistry at Penn State and co-director of the Huck Institutes' Center for RNA Molecular Biology, has been honored by the Eberly College of Science Alumni Society with the 2012 C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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Jan 15, 2012

Two Huck Institutes faculty members named AAAS Fellows

Consuelo De Moraes and Steven Schiff honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Oct 17, 2010

Huck Institutes' graduate programs ranked among the nation's best

Three of the Huck Institutes' graduate programs were ranked among the nation's best in the latest report from the National Research Council (NRC). The NRC study ranked 5,000 doctoral programs from 212 universities in over 60 fields.

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Aug 03, 2010

Ancient gene family linked to the future of epileptic seizures

A potassium-channel gene belonging to an ancient gene family more than 542 million years old is opening new avenues in epilepsy research, and may one day allow researchers to develop more effective drugs with fewer side effects for the treatment of epileptic seizures.

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