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Jean Paul Allain, Huck Chair Professor and head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State, was appointed to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science's Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee. Credit: Kelby Hochreither/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

October 27, 2022

Nuclear engineer appointed to national fusion energy advisory committee
Nyduta Mbodo, master's degree student in Food Science, pulling frozen cultures from the E. coli Reference Center freezers. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

October 27, 2022

Microbiologist in food science, E. coli Reference Center gets grant for research
Due to a changing climate, Africa is projected to experience hotter temperatures, more severe storms and increased droughts — and few of the countries on the continent are prepared to deal with the coming crisis. Credit: GettyImages gorsh13. All Rights Reserved.

October 27, 2022

International consortium to better assess Africa drought risks, boost resilience
Trevor Clark, staff scientist and electron microscopy team leader, at work in the Materials Characterization Lab in the Millennium Science Complex. Credit: Jennifer M. McCann, Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

October 27, 2022

Open house introduces researchers to institutes' resources

October 26, 2022

State College COVID-19 wastewater data is now available on CDC website

October 26, 2022

'Prescribed' Fires' Hidden Bonus: Fewer Ticks
The National Institutes of Health grant will help researchers explore the use of machine learning for a minimally invasive system to detect Alzheimer's disease as early as possible. Credit: Natasha Connell/Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

October 26, 2022

Researchers to use $1.2 million grant to study early Alzheimer’s detection
Beneficial reuse of treated wastewater is an increasingly common practice in which treated wastewater is used for irrigation and other non-potable purposes. Credit: Heather Preisendanz, Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

October 26, 2022

‘Forever Chemicals’ persist through wastewater treatment, may enter crops
A new study by an international team that includes researchers from Penn State explores how a cancer drug currently in clinical trials could protect from, cure, and prevent transmission of malaria. Credit: U.S. Centers for Disease Control. All Rights Reserved.

October 26, 2022

Cancer drug could potentially be used against malaria
Quantum computing-powered artificial intelligence may help pave a cheaper, faster path for drug discovery. Pictured: the interior of an IBM Quantum computing system. Credit: IBM. All Rights Reserved.

October 26, 2022

Penn State researchers to explore using quantum computers to design new drugs

October 25, 2022

Penn State scientists developing mutation-proof COVID vaccine
Lisa Witzig, Director of Center for Security Research and Education Credit: Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

October 25, 2022

Witzig new director of Center for Security Research and Education

October 24, 2022

RSV surge creates risk of 'tripledemic'

October 24, 2022

A stunning 300 new COVID variants are circling the globe. Which ones will break through in the Bay Area?
Researchers found that coat color (black versus gray) reflects an individual wolf's immunity to canine distemper virus (CDV). They also found that changes in the proportion of black wolves may be due to changes in the frequency of CDV disease outbreaks, coupled with the mating behavior of wolves and whether they select a mate with the same or a different coat color to themselves. Credit: Luemen Rutkowski, Unsplash. All Rights Reserved.

October 24, 2022

Wolf coat color reflects immunity to canine distemper virus, new study finds
Credit: Michael Tribone. All Rights Reserved.

October 24, 2022

Podcast examines possible evolutionary drivers of human hair variation

October 23, 2022

A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu and Other Infections Return as Covid Cases Rise
Crew members monitor a prescribed fire at the Arboretum at Penn State. In addition to its utility in managing invasive species and restoring ecosystem health, prescribed burning could help control tick populations and reduce transmission of tick-borne pathogens, researchers say. Credit: The Arboretum at Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

October 21, 2022

Prescribed fire could reduce tick populations and pathogen transmission
Gioia Massa, a NASA scientist, is poses inside a lab with plants.

October 20, 2022

Penn State alum presents her NASA space garden research to current students

October 19, 2022

Penn State researchers engineer protein that could be used to develop 1-dose covid vaccine
Gail Matters, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, medicine and pharmacology, and her team received a grant to develop new tools to detect the early spread, or metastasis, of breast cancer Credit: Penn State College of Medicine / Penn State. Creative Commons

October 19, 2022

Cancer Institute receives breast cancer grant from Mary Kay Ash Foundation

October 19, 2022

Penn State researchers 3D bioprint breast cancer tumours and treat them in new 'groundbreaking' study
Eating fire ants might prepare a lizard’s immune system to be stung by the ants, according to a new study by researchers at Penn State. Credit: Langkilde Lab / Penn State. Creative Commons

October 19, 2022

Eating fire ants could prepare lizards for future fire ant attack
Penn State College of Medicine scientists engineered immunogens using areas of SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein that are less susceptible to mutations. These immunogens could someday be used as vaccine candidates in clinical trials. Credit: Penn State College of Medicine / Penn State. Creative Commons

October 18, 2022

Newly engineered protein could be used to develop adaptation-proof COVID vaccine