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Julio Flores Cuadra, left, is pursuing a graduate degree in neuroscience at Penn State, and Junyao Yuan, is pursuing one in integrative and biomedical physiology. Credit: Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

Penn State graduate students receive American Heart Association fellowships

Two Penn State graduate students enrolled in Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs administered by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences have each been awarded two-year American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Nelson Roque (left) and Alexis Santos (right) found that 58% of counties in the United States have no air-quality monitoring. Credit: Dennis Maney / Penn State. Creative Commons

How safe is the air to breathe? 50 million people in the US don't know

More than half of counties in United States have no air-quality monitoring, according to study by researchers from Penn State.

Increases in insomnia were followed by increased risk of movement and self-care disabilities, according to a new study by researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development. Credit: Filmstax/Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.

Insomnia and sleep medication use connected to disability in older adults

Increases in insomnia were followed by increased risk of movement and self-care disabilities, according to a new study by researchers at Penn State.

The four Penn State Goldwater Scholars are, clockwise from top left, Luc Schrauf, Elisabeth Groff, Zach Badinger and Megan von Abo. Credit: Provided. All Rights Reserved.

Four Penn State undergraduates earn Goldwater Scholarships

Four Penn State undergraduates were named Goldwater Scholars for 2025-26, based on their outstanding academic merit and research experience. Goldwater Scholars are selected for their potential as leaders in the fields of natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences at Penn State recently announced its first cohort of working groups. The center is supporting 10 initial working groups which will conduct research in accordance with open science principles, producing peer-reviewed articles, public datasets and reproducible workflows. The working groups will reuse and integrate diverse datasets, creatively visualized in this illustration, to gain insights about emergent properties that could potentially answer fundamental scientific questions and lead to transformative discoveries.  Credit: NicoElNino/Alamy Stock Photo. All Rights Reserved.

NCEMS working groups to answer molecular and cellular bioscience questions

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences at Penn State aims to drive multidisciplinary collaboration utilizing publicly available research data.

A multi-institutional team led by Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State, recently received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop the next generation of synthetic blood. Credit: Provided by Dipanjan Pan. All Rights Reserved.

$2.7M NIH grant to fund next generation of synthetic blood

A multi-institutional team led by Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State, recently received a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop the next generation of synthetic blood.

Nivetha Gunaseelan has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to condcuct research that could impact how physicians treat brain injuries. Credit: Provided by Dipanjan Pan/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

Biomedical engineering grad student earns American Heart Association fellowship

The American Heart Association (AHA) awarded Nivetha Gunaseelan, a doctoral candidate studying biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a predoctoral fellowship.

Sol De Jesus, right, movement disorder neurologist and co-director of the Penn State Health Deep Brain Stimulation Program, performs the health system’s first adaptive DBS activation on patient Deborah Barnhart. Credit: Penn State Health. All Rights Reserved.

Hershey Medical Center first in Pennsylvania to offer new Parkinson’s treatment

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has become the first hospital in Pennsylvania and one of only 23 in the nation to offer BrainSense adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS), an advanced treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

Penn State Associate Professor of Psychology Katie Burkhouse and a colleague at Vanderbilt University recently received a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study maternal depression’s potential effect on young children. Credit: Katie Burkhouse . All Rights Reserved.

Grant to explore maternal depression’s effect on young children

Penn State Associate Professor of Psychology Katie Burkhouse and a colleague at Vanderbilt University recently received a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study maternal depression’s potential effect on young children.

GPCR Assay Service Center Opens at Penn State College of Medicine

New facility will enable Penn State researchers to perform large-scale drug screening and signal transduction monitoring