UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 13 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * AI-powered cooling startup aims to boost data center efficiency UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Data centers power the digital world, storing and processing the vast amounts of information that keep businesses and web-based services running. According to Wangda Zuo, Penn State professor of architectural engineering in the College of Engineering and associate director for research at the Global Bu  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 10 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Alumni Association to host wrestling 'Roar Tour' in Philadelphia on March 22 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- With the Penn State wrestling team vying for another national championship in March, the Penn State Alumni Association will host a special Penn State wrestling "Roar Tour" event in conjunction with the Philadelphia Chapter. The event will take place from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, March 22, a  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 10 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Analyzing genetic 'signatures' may give insight into what stresses wild bees UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees stress and could eventually give insight into why bee populations are declining overall, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State. The team published t  more

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pennsylvania, March 13 [Category: Materials Management] -- ASTM International, formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials, which develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for materials, products, systems and services, posted the following news release: * * * ASTM International Honors Ervin Dukatz with Top Annual Award ASTM International presented its top annual award - the 2024 Award of Merit - to Ervin Dukatz for his contributions to its r  more

BRISTOL, Connecticut, March 13 [Category: BizMedia] -- ESPN, a sports media company, posted the following news release: * * * Chipotle High School Basketball Nationals Returns for 16th Season April 2-5 * Thirteen SC Next Top 25 ranked boys and girls teams to participate, including: * All ten boys teams ranked top ten in the country * Three of the top ten ranked girls teams in the country * Ten Games Available Across ESPN Platforms; Championship Games Set to Air on ESPN2 and ESPN Chipo  more

HERSHEY, Pennsylvania, March 11 -- Penn State Health issued the following news: * * * Early-life responsive parenting intervention yields lasting but diminishing benefits on child weight Early life-responsive parenting can lead to healthier weight outcomes for children in their earliest years, with effects lasting but diminishing into middle childhood, according to a new study. Conducted by the Penn State College of Medicine and the Center for Childhood Obesity Research at Penn State Universi  more

CANTON, Ohio, March 11 [Category: Sports] -- The National Football League posted the following news: * * * Eric Edholm's top 100 NFL draft prospects 1.0: Ranking the best players in the 2025 class While assembling this list -- my initial ranking of the top 100 players in the 2025 NFL Draft -- I compared this year's prospect crop to that of 2024. My biggest takeaways: This just isn't as talented a group overall, and there are fewer blue-chippers at the top. That's clear at quarterback, but it   more

CANTON, Ohio, March 11 [Category: Sports] -- The National Football League posted the following news: * * * Eric Edholm's top 100 prospects 1.0: Ranking the best players in the 2025 NFL Draft class While assembling this list -- my initial ranking of the top 100 players in the 2025 NFL Draft -- I compared this year's prospect crop to that of 2024. My biggest takeaways: This just isn't as talented a group overall, and there are fewer blue-chippers at the top. That's clear at quarterback, but it   more

BRISTOL, Connecticut, March 10 [Category: BizMedia] -- ESPN, a sports media company, posted the following news release: * * * ESPN Platforms to Exclusively Present NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championships, March 13-23 * Regional Semifinals on Thursday, Followed by Regional Finals on Saturday Across ESPN+ * NCAA Women's Frozen Four (March 21 & 23 in Minneapolis) on ESPN+ and ESPNU * ESPN's Jason Ross Jr., AJ Mleczko and Blake Bolden to call Women's Frozen Four ESPN platforms will exclusi  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 10 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Framework to help scientists choose impactful place-based research locations UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Faced with more extreme weather events, communities may need to adapt to heightened risks from sea-level rise, flooding or wildfires. And while scientific research can help inform adaptations, the process requires an alignment of academic resources and real-world needs and partnerships tha  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 10 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Grant to explore maternal depression's effect on young children UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Does maternal depression affect mothers' young children? If so, how? Those are the questions that Penn State Associate Professor of Psychology Katie Burkhouse and a colleague at Vanderbilt University aim to answer with a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Nation  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 10 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Jainendra Jain named 2025 Wolf Prize laureate in physics UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Jainendra K. Jain, Evan Pugh University Professor and Erwin W. Muller Professor of Physics and holder of the Eberly Family Chair in the Penn State Eberly College of Science, has been awarded, along with two others, the 2025 Wolf Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking contributions to quantum matter and its topo  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 11 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Nese College of Nursing SAFE-T System receives 2025 ANA Innovation Award UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Each year, the American Nurses Association (ANA) recognizes nurse innovators whose novel approaches improve patient care and health outcomes and also recognizes them for their sustainability and scalability in U.S. markets. Sheridan Miyamoto, associate professor in the Penn State Ross and Caro  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 10 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * New grant to expand program helping middle schoolers cope with chronic stress UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Middle schoolers from low-income families who learned new ways to cope with stress by participating in the Building a Strong Identity and Coping Skills (BaSICS) program demonstrated significant and lasting reductions in anxiety and depression, according to Penn State Professor of Psycholo  more

EVANSTON, Illinois, March 13 -- Northwestern University posted the following news release: * * * Northwestern baseball alum endows head coaching position * Link to: Northwestern Now Story EVANSTON, Ill. --- Former Northwestern Baseball letterwinner Dennis LaPidus '64 has made a major gift to establish the Sidney and Mildred LaPidus Head Baseball Coach position at the University, in memory of his parents. LaPidus was a pitcher for the team. This gift will provide Northwestern Athletics an  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 13 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Education issued the following news on March 12, 2025: * * * State Board of Higher Education to Embark on Statewide Stakeholder Engagement Tour to Help Develop Strategic Plan The State Board of Higher Education (SBHE) was a key reform secured by Governor Shapiro as part of the 2024-25 budget. Together, the reforms in that bipartisan budget represent the first significant progress on higher education in 30 years. SBHE is cha  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 13 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Penn State professor earns national Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- It was a big positive moment for someone who conducts research about the positive impact of media. Mary Beth Oliver, a Penn State faculty member who conducts research on media psychology, with an emphasis on media, emotion, social cognition and positive media, earned the national Pau  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 12 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Penn State programs competitive in 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State ranked in 46 out of 52 subjects in the 2025 World University Rankings by Subject, released March 12 by London-based QS, one of the major three international organizations that annually rank academic institutions. For 2025, QS ranked 1,747 institutions across 55 subjects in   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 15 -- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center issued the following news release: * * * Pitt Study Makes New Insights into the Origins of Ovarian Cancer PITTSBURGH -- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified a novel trigger of a deadly form of ovarian cancer: a subset of progenitor cells that reside in fallopian tube supportive tissue, or stroma. The discovery of these high-risk cells, described in a new study published today in Cancer Di  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 10 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Plant biologist awarded the Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology Sarah Assmann, Waller Professor of Plant Biology at Penn State, has been awarded the Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology. The award was established through a generous gift from Masatoshi Nei, professor emeritus of biology at Penn State, Laura Carnell, professor of biology at Temple University and Nei's wife, Nobuk  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 15 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Protein accidentally lassos itself, helping explain unusual refolding behavior UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Proteins are long molecules that must fold into complex three-dimensional structures to perform their cellular functions. This folding process occasionally goes awry, resulting in misfolded proteins that, if not corrected, can potentially lead to disease. Now, a new study has described a  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 11 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Q&A: The story behind the cosmic image on a new US stamp UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps. For Kevin Luhman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, seeing an image he took with the James Webb Space Telescope on a U.S. stamp has become a reality. In 2022, L  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 13 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Threatened by warming waters, brook trout may be able to adapt to hotter weather UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Brook trout may have a genetic trick up their scales when it comes to adapting, with limitations, to heatwaves that threaten their existence. Scientists have known for years that brook trout -- an iconic coldwater fish species native to streams and lakes in the eastern United States an  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 13 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Reusing old oil and gas wells may offer green energy storage solution UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. A new study by researchers at Penn State found that taking advantage of natural geothermal heat in depleted oil and gas  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 10 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Search underway for next Penn State ICDS director UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State is currently seeking nominations and candidates for the position of director of the Institute for Computational and Data Science (ICDS), housed within the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research. This role leads the institute's vision and strategy, enhances interdisciplinary research collaboratio  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 14 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Tunnel-building virus: How Zika transmits from mother to fetus UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In 2015, an outbreak of Zika virus triggered an epidemic in the Americas. People infected with Zika, typically via a mosquito bite, may have mild symptoms, but if the person is pregnant, it can lead to severe birth defects. How does the virus pass from mother to fetus? A team of researchers from Penn   more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 10 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Werzyn family, West Shore Home make significant field naming gift for Beaver Stadium UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State Board of Trustees today (March 10) approved, 22-8, the naming of the field at Beaver Stadium as West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium. The visionary and significant gift from the Werzyn family and West Shore Home provides incredible support and momentum to the Beav  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 9 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Wrestling team wins ninth Big Ten championship EVANSTON, Ill. - The Penn State Nittany Lion wrestling team (15-0, 8-0 B1G) stormed the field at the 2025 Big Ten Championship to claim its ninth Big Ten Championship, all under head coach Cael Sanderson. The Nittany Lions ran away from the field, winning the title with 181.5 points, a new school record (breaking the mark of 170.5 set last yea  more