Apr 15, 2024
Aman Nanda, graduate student, presented “Materials for Detection of Dark Matter” tutorial at the Materials Innovation Day event for middle school and high school students. This research and video was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Award #...
Sep 8, 2022
Penn State announces non-tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2022. Bed Poudel, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, has been promoted to research professor. Read the full article here.
Sep 8, 2022
After a year’s hiatus, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences’ Symbiotic Podcast returns at noon on Thursday, Jan. 27, featuring a livestreamed conversation with David Hughes, Huck chair in global food security, professor of entomology and biology, and founder of...
Sep 8, 2022
The energy systems that power our lives also produce wasted heat — like heat that radiates off hot water pipes in buildings and exhaust pipes on vehicles. A new flexible thermoelectric generator can wrap around pipes and other hot surfaces and convert wasted heat into...
Sep 8, 2022
As demand for solar energy rises around the world, scientists are working to improve the performance of solar devices — important if the technology is to compete with traditional fuels. But researchers face theoretical limits on how efficient they can make solar...
Sep 8, 2022
Phillip Savage, currently the head of Penn State Department of Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering, has been named interim associate vice president for research and director of strategic initiatives in the Penn State Office of the Senior Vice President...
Sep 8, 2022
The ability of piezoelectric materials to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice versa makes them useful for various applications from robotics to communication to sensors. A new design strategy for creating ultrahigh-performing piezoelectric...
Sep 8, 2022
Shashank Priya, associate vice president for research and director of strategic initiatives in the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research (OSVPR), has been named vice president for research at the University of Minnesota and will conclude his tenure at Penn...
Oct 21, 2021
Cody Gonzalez is a PhD graduand in Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University where he will graduate in December 2021. He is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar focusing on developing multi-energy harvesters and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with...
Sep 20, 2021
Yu Zhang received his Erasmus Mundus Joint master’s degrees in 2016 from University of Barcelona and Heriot-Watt University. During his master’s degree, he studied the toxic effects of nanoclay on the immune system in the school of Life Science under supervision of Dr...
