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Mar 28, 2019
India launches One Health Initiative with help from Penn State's ABRL
Penn State’s Applied Biological and Biosecurity Research Laboratory (ABRL), together with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Biological Threat Reduction Program, recently worked with India’s Department of Biotechnology within the Ministry of Science and Technology to help the Indian government launch its complex and ambitious One Health Initiative at the One Health India Conference 2019.
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Mar 28, 2019
Zydney named ACS Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division Fellow
Andrew Zydney has been named a Fellow of the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Zydney's research focuses on membrane science and technology, and has greatly impacted the design and development of important commercial membrane processes for the purification of monoclonal antibodies, which are used in treating cancer and other immunologic disorders.
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Mar 27, 2019
Penn State research featured in new report on supercharging U.S. ag science
A new report issued today (March 27) shows how U.S. farmers — facing a surge of weather events and disease outbreaks — can increase production and revenues with innovations produced by federally funded agricultural research, including studies performed in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
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Mar 27, 2019
Physio Student Kelly Ness Publishes Paper in American Journal of Physiology
Ness, who previously served as Graduate Adviser to the Huck Institutes, simulated a seven-day working working week to study recovery of insulin sensitivity.
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Mar 26, 2019
Hall, Brent to receive Roy C. Buck awards during annual celebration
Two faculty members in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have been named the recipients of the 2018 Roy C. Buck Faculty Award, which recognizes exceptional articles accepted or published by refereed scholarly journals in the social and human sciences within the past two years.
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Mar 26, 2019
Toews receives early investigator award from American Ornithological Society
David Toews, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Ned K. Johnson Early Investigator Award by the American Ornithological Society (AOS), an international society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of birds.
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Mar 26, 2019
CBIOS Trainee Hillary Koch Awarded NIH Fellowship
Koch's dissertation proposal, "Statistical Methods for Differential Peak Detection in Hi-C Data," was funded upon its first submission to the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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Mar 18, 2019
Sarah Assmann appointed editor-in-chief of scientific journal The Plant Cell
Sarah M. Assmann, Waller Professor of Biology at Penn State, has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal The Plant Cell, effective Jan. 1, 2020. The Plant Cell, one of the top research journals in plant biology, was established in 1989 by the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
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Mar 13, 2019
Ecology Alum Jennifer Tennessen Brings Acoustics to Killer Whale Conservation
Dr. Jennifer Tennessen applies the lessons of her interdisciplinary research at the Huck to her professional work with killer whales in the Pacific Northwest.
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Mar 12, 2019
Heard on Campus: Paul Perreault at the Penn State Forum
Paul Perreault, chief executive officer and managing director of CSL Limited, the second largest biotherapeutics company in the world with more than 22,000 employees, presented “Innovation in Biotechnology: The Promise, The Potential, The Pitfalls” at the Penn State Forum on March 12 at The Nittany Lion Inn.
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