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Researchers developed a 3D atlas of the developing mouse brain, with such images as this. Credit: Provided by the Kim Lab / Penn State. Creative Commons

Researchers develop 3D atlas of the developing mammalian brain

A 3D atlas of developing mice brains using advanced imaging and microscopy techniques has been created by a team of researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and collaborators from five different institutes.

Ceroptres promethea is one of the newly identified and named gall wasps. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

Penn State entomology graduate student identifies 22 new species of gall wasps

Twenty-two new species of gall wasps have been identified and named for the first time, thanks to new research led by a Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences graduate student.

Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has been selected to host a United Nations World Food Forum Youth Innovation Lab. Faculty and students who were present for the World Food Day Global Ceremony, held in Rome this week, were, from left, Daniel Foster, associate professor of agricultural and extension education and co-founder of the Global Teach Ag Network at Penn State; Ram Neupane, doctoral student; Melanie Foster, associate teaching professor of international agriculture and co-founder of the Global Teach Ag Network; Nina Coates, program and project management senior consultant, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Jett Kelly, undergraduate student; Mark Gagnon, Harbaugh Entrepreneur and Innovation Faculty Scholar; Xialing Zhao, doctoral student; Noel Habashy, associate teacher professor and coordinator for the international agriculture minor; and Raymond Yan, undergraduate student. Credit: Contributed photo. All Rights Reserved.

Penn State named site for World Food Forum Youth Food Lab

Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has been selected to host a prestigious World Food Forum Youth Food Lab, a key initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to address global food security and climate change.

Penn State Senior Vice President for Research Andrew Read hosted a conversation with the community on Oct. 14, 2024, about the University’s research enterprise. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

Andrew Read leads conversation with community on research enterprise

On Oct. 14, Penn State Senior Vice President for Research Andrew Read hosted a conversation with the community on the University’s research enterprise.

Funding enables Penn State faculty, staff and students to push the boundaries of discovery, conduct cutting-edge research and drive innovation that positively impacts society, both locally and around the globe. Here Nicholas Clark, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State, forges a piece of LionGlass, an entirely new type of glass that offers the first alternative to standard soda lime silicate glass. LionGlass, which was invented at Penn State, secured its first corporate partner for research and development in fiscal year 2024.  Credit: Michael Owen / Penn State. Creative Commons

Penn State’s research expenditures reach record $1.337 billion

The funding — from federal and state agencies, industry sponsors, private donors, the University and other sources — enables Penn State faculty, staff and students to conduct research to meet the world’s most urgent challenges

The Penn State Climate Consortium has awarded funding to four research projects that look to put promising climate solutions into action through interdisciplinary partnerships.  Credit: Brenna Buck. All Rights Reserved.

Climate Consortium awards projects to drive climate solutions across key sectors

The Penn State Climate Consortium has awarded funding to four research projects through its Climate Solutions Accelerator Program. Through this program, the consortium aims to put promising climate solutions into action via interdisciplinary partnerships.

Gustavo Nader, professor of kinesiology and physiology in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development, has been named the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Loyd Huck Chair in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology by Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. Credit: Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. All Rights Reserved.

Gustavo Nader named Huck Chair in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology

Gustavo Nader, professor of kinesiology and physiology in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development, has been named the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Loyd Huck Chair in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.

Nominations for the Penn State Faculty Scholar medal are now open. Credit: Patrick Mansell / Penn State. Creative Commons

Nominations sought for Faculty Scholar Medal

The Penn State Office of the President has opened the call for nominations for individuals eligible to receive the Faculty Scholar Medal.

At left, a hydrophobic Mycoknit leather sample as the mycelium is growing and at right, a close-up view of the MycoKnit pavilion project led by architecture professors Felecia Davis and Benay Gürsoy. Credit: Provided by Felecia Davis and Benay Gürsoy. All Rights Reserved.

Fungi Futures exhibition showcases work of Stuckeman architecture researchers

Three projects from researchers in the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing that focus on using mycelium, the root of fungus, as sustainable architectural components are featured in the “Fungi Futures: Exploring Mycelium in Product Design and Crafts” exhibition in the gallery of the (con)Temporary CRAFTS STUDIO in Bremen, Germany, which opened Sept. 21.

People who experience depression and concussions simultaneously have significantly worse symptoms for both conditions and disruptions to brain connectivity, according to a new study by kinesiology researchers at Penn State. Credit: Getty Images – FGTrade. All Rights Reserved.

Co-occurrence of depression and concussions amplify symptoms of both conditions

A new study led by researchers in the Penn State Department of Kinesiology demonstrated that the co-occurrence of depression and concussion was associated with significantly worse symptoms for both conditions.