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Apr 15, 2024
Huck Leadership Fellows selected for 2024-25
For the 2024-2025 academic year, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has appointed Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Scott Medina, Professor of Statistics Lingzhou Xue, and Associate Professor of Surgery Dino Ravnic to be Huck Leadership Fellows.
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Apr 12, 2024
Probiotic feed additive boosts growth, health in poultry in place of antibiotics
Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat for public health, and the use of antimicrobials in livestock feed has been a major contributing factor in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance to many drugs, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
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Apr 11, 2024
Spring ‘Night at the Museums’ event will be held on Thursday, April 25
The Penn State Museum Consortium will hold the spring 2024 "Night at the Museums" on April 25. Participating museums will be open from 4 to 8 p.m. This is a chance for students, staff, faculty and the community to visit a variety of unique and interesting museums across campus.
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Apr 11, 2024
Yellow-eyed grasses may have more insect visitors than previously thought
Scientists previously believed that a family of flowering plants called yellow-eyed grasses didn’t attract many insect visitors, but the recent discovery of a fungus that hijacks the plant and forms fungal “pseudoflowers” has researchers rethinking this assumption.
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Apr 10, 2024
Q&A: New technology may help identify neuromotor disease symptoms in infants
A team of researchers led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng tested the use of wearable sensors paired with a “tiny” machine learning algorithm to automatically monitor and evaluate general movements in infants.
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Apr 10, 2024
Three Penn Staters earn national Goldwater Scholarships
Penn State undergraduates Nate Carey, Bridget Reheard and Mabel Tong have earned the 2024 Goldwater Scholarship. The national Goldwater Scholarship recognizes undergraduates who show exceptional potential as leaders.
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Apr 08, 2024
Podcast sheds light on the evolution of disease-causing pathogens
As the ever-growing number of Covid variants has made clear to the global public in recent years, disease-causing viruses can evolve incredibly fast. The same holds true for bacteria that cause many infectious diseases. Andrew Read was interviewed about his career as a prominent researcher in this field.
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Apr 04, 2024
Forty graduate students honored with prestigious University awards
Forty Penn State graduate students were named recipients of Penn State’s most prestigious annual graduate student recognition awards, administered by the Graduate School in collaboration with several Penn State units.
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Apr 03, 2024
New sunflower family tree reveals multiple origins of flower symmetry
The sunflower family tree revealed that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, among the members of this large plant family, according to a new analysis.
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Mar 28, 2024
Vaccine protects cattle from bovine tuberculosis, may eliminate disease
Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is a livestock disease that results in large economic losses to animal agriculture worldwide. The disease can also transmit to humans and cause severe illness and death.
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