UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 24 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * $8.5 million estate pledge crowns legacy of chemical engineering alumnus UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A Penn State alumnus, who earned their degree in the 1960s and has since built a successful career in the chemical industry, has pledged an $8.5 million estate commitment to the Department of Chemical Engineering, funding multiple initiatives that will support the growth of students and facult  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 24 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * 'Cold' manufacturing approach to make next-gen batteries UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Lithium-ion batteries have been a staple in device manufacturing for years, but the liquid electrolytes they rely on to function are quite unstable, leading to fire hazards and safety concerns. Now, researchers at Penn State are pursuing a reliable alternative energy storage solution for use in laptops, phone  more

CANTON, Ohio, April 21 [Category: Sports] -- The National Football League posted the following news: * * * 2025 NFL Draft buzz: Latest league news, rumors from Monday ahead of Thursday's Round 1 Could Jalen Milroe be the next Lamar Jackson ? According to NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero, NFL coaches and scouts are providing evaluations of the Alabama quarterback that indicate such a comparison is appropriate. "Several -- not one -- several coaches and scouts told me as I was making calls  more

CANTON, Ohio, April 25 [Category: Sports] -- The National Football League posted the following news: * * * 2025 NFL Draft: Jets select LSU TE Mason Taylor with No. 42 overall pick The Taylor family is staying in the AFC East. The Jets selected LSU tight end Mason Taylor with the 42nd pick of the 2025 NFL Draft on Friday. The son of Pro Football Hall of Famer and Miami Dolphins legend Jason Taylor and the nephew of fellow Hall of Famer and former Dolphin Zach Thomas is heading to a divisio  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Are drones the future of tree fruit production? Researchers investigate UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A team of researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is addressing the growing interest among tree fruit growers in Pennsylvania and the Northeast in adopting drone-based spraying systems for high-density apple and peach orchards. The Northeast Region of the Sustainable Agricu  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Astronomers discover a planet that's rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces. The disintegrating world is about the mass of Mercury, although it circles about 20 times closer to its star than Mercury does to the sun, completing an orbit every 30.5 hours. At suc  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 24 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Beyond the double helix: Alternative DNA conformations in ape genomes UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations -- referred to as non-B DNA -- have been implicated as regulators of cellular processes and of genome evolution, but their DNA tends to be repetitive, which until recently made rel  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 21 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Can hormone therapy improve heart health in menopausal women? HERSHEY, Pa. -- Deciding whether to start hormone therapy during the menopause transition, the life phase that's the bookend to puberty and when a woman's menstrual cycle stops, is a hotly debated topic. While hormone therapy, or replacing the hormones that were previously produced by the body with synthetic medication, is reco  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Competition shows not all exam questions can be correctly answered using AI UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) announced the winners of its first-ever " Cheat-a-thon." The virtual competition, held March 3 through April 6, invited faculty and students at universities across the United States to test the capabilities and lim  more

CANTON, Ohio, April 23 [Category: Sports] -- The National Football League posted the following news: * * * Daniel Jeremiah 2025 NFL mock draft 4.0: Broncos, Giants trade up; Steelers pick Shedeur Sanders As we get closer to the start of the 2025 NFL Draft, I'm hearing a lot of chatter about the potential for trades. Also, there still seems to be a wide range of opinions on prospects with a chance to be selected on Thursday night. With less of a clear consensus than what we've grown accustomed  more

CANTON, Ohio, April 21 [Category: Sports] -- The National Football League posted the following news: * * * Daniel Jeremiah's top 150 prospects in the 2025 NFL Draft class With the Tennessee Titans set to make the first overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft on Thursday night, I'm providing my final prospect rankings of this draft season. The big move at the top is Colorado WR/CB Travis Hunter vaulting Penn State edge rusher Abdul Carter for the No. 1 slot. I've been thinking about making this c  more

LAUREL, Maryland, April 25 [Category: Science] -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory posted the following news release: * * * Dragonfly Mission Passes Critical Design Review NASA's Dragonfly, the first rotorcraft designed for scientific exploration on another ocean world, has passed its Critical Design Review. Led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, the mission to Saturn's icy moon Titan will investigate prebiotic chemical processes   more

ZURICH, Switzerland, April 26 -- The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) issued the following news: * * * The NASL star who became an instant NFL Draft success The NFL Draft is taking place this week. FIFA spoke to former NASL star Matt Bahr, one of few pro soccer players to hear their name called. * Bahr played in the NASL for the Colorado Caribous * The kicker then won two Super Bowls in the NFL * He is the son of FIFA World Cup 1950 star Walter Bahr A number of prof  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Harrisburg breaks ground on new Academic Learning Center MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -- The Penn State Harrisburg campus community, along with stakeholders and alumni, gathered on April 22 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the campus's new $48 million Academic Learning Center (ALC), which is slated to open for the fall 2026 semester. College Chancellor David Callejo Perez was joined by Student Gover  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 21 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * High-tech sticker can identify real human emotions UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Saying one thing while feeling another is part of being human, but bottling up emotions can have serious psychological consequences like anxiety or panic attacks. To help health care providers tell the difference, a team led by scientists at Penn State has created a stretchable, rechargeable sticker that can detect  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 22 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * How do you like them apples? Apple genus evolution revealed UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and how their genomes have evolved over the past nearly 60 million years. The research team identified structur  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 21 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * How safe is the air to breathe? 50 million people in the US don't know UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In 2024, more than 50 million people in the United States lived in counties with no air-quality monitoring, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development. Rural counties -- especially counties in the Midwest and South -- were less likely to  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Institute for Computational and Data Sciences issues call for proposals UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) has announced a new program to foster interdisciplinary collaborations among early-career researchers and Penn State faculty. The ICDS Junior Researcher Collaborations Funding Opportunity is now accepting project proposals. F  more

LIVERMORE, California, April 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * LLNL and Penn State explore audible enclaves for precision audio Combining state-of-the-art acoustics, 3D printing and materials science, researchers at Penn State University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have unveiled a novel technique that allows sound to be delivered to a precise location, circumventing physical barriers without the ne  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 23 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * National Small Business Week events designed to support and empower entrepreneurs UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will celebrate National Small Business Week from May 4 to 10 with a series of events designed to support and empower entrepreneurs. On May 8, the center will host a virtual seminar titled Contract Essentials for Small Businesse  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 21 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Native plants connect Welch Building landscaping to Indigenous traditions UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- When it opened earlier this year, Penn State's Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building came with all the ultra-modern, environmentally friendly amenities one would expect from the College of the Liberal Arts' first new facility in more than a half-century. But the building itself wasn't the only   more

WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania, April 22 -- The Pennsylvania College of Technology issued the following news: * * * Penn College Dual Enrollment programs benefit from JSSB gift Jersey Shore State Bank recently made a gift to support Penn College Dual Enrollment, a program that allows academically qualified high school and career and technology education center students to take Penn College courses tuition-free during their regular school day. The bank provided a $7,000 gift to the program throug  more

ALTOONA, Pennsylvania, April 26 -- Pennsylvania State University at Altoona issued the following news: * * * Penn State Altoona professor selected to work with Ghanaian University ALTOONA, Pa. -- Kofi Adu, professor of physics at Penn State Altoona and graduate faculty in materials science and engineering, has been awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to Ghana to work with the University of Development Studies (UDS), specifically the lecturers in   more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Penn State graduate students receive American Heart Association fellowships UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Two Penn State graduate students enrolled in Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs administered by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences have each been awarded two-year American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowships. Junyao Yuan is a graduate student in the integrative and bio  more

HERSHEY, Pennsylvania, April 23 -- Penn State Health issued the following news: * * * Penn State Health performs region's first minimally invasive repair for complex aortic aneurysms Revolutionary TAMBE procedure avoids open surgery, shortens recovery and expands options for high-risk patients Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is the first hospital in central Pennsylvania to perform a groundbreaking, minimally invasive surgery for complex aortic aneurysms - life threatening   more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 24 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Penn State joins Age-Friendly University Global Network UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State has joined the Age-Friendly University Global Network, an international group of higher education institutions committed to promoting positive and healthy aging and enhancing the lives of older members of the global community. The Age-Friendly University (AFU) Global Network began in 2012 at Dubli  more

SCHUYKILL HAVEN, Pennsylvania, April 23 -- Pennsylvania State University's Schuykill Campus issued the following news: * * * Penn State Schuylkill biology major presents research at Pennsylvania Capitol SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa. -- James Bell, a fourth-year biology major at Penn State Schuylkill who aspires to attend veterinary school, was recently selected as one of only four undergraduate researchers to represent Penn State at the annual "Research at the Capitol" event in Harrisburg. Sponsored  more

DUNMORE, Pennsylvania, April 26 -- Pennsylvania State University's Scranton campus issued the following news: * * * Public support matters for sustainable energy investments, researchers find Penn State Scranton business professor's research explores sustainable energy investments By Morgan Sewack DUNMORE, Pa. -- Penn State Scranton's Assistant Professor of Business Nonna Sorokina presented her research, "Sustainable Energy Marketplace and Societal Readiness," which examines how public opin  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 22 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Q&A: Microscopic robots may shape the future of health, tech and the environment UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- From microscopic robots that can carry and deliver drugs inside the human body to tiny particles that can detect and break down microplastics, an emerging field called active matter is looking toward the microscale to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Stewart Mallory, assis  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 22 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Rare dire wolf bone logged by undergraduate student at Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The world was mesmerized by Colossal Biosciences' recent announcement that they had cloned dire wolf pups, a species of canine that's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. While experts have debated the "de-extinction" of these wolves, which are far more genetically similar to living grey wolf tha  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 22 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Research key preparation for pursuing doctorate, Penn State undergrad says UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Seeing the "huge juxtaposition" between streams flowing near her childhood home in Lancaster County impaired by pollution from intensive agriculture and the seemingly pristine creeks tumbling down the forested mountains around her family's cabin in Mifflin County led Bridget Reheard to study  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 23 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Spanish, Italian and Portuguese doctoral student named Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The transition from democracy to dictatorship affects much more than a country's political system. Arts, culture and the free expression of ideas are also impacted as the government decides what is and is not acceptable for writers, musicians and other artists to address in their work.   more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Students to present solar design project at expo on April 30 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Students in Assistant Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering Nelson Dzade's "EGEE 437: Design of Solar Energy Conversion Systems" class worked with Greenwood Furnace State Park this spring semester as part of a Sustainable Communities Collaborative (SCC) project in partnership with Pennsylvania's Dep  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 23 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * The Medical Minute: Keep your bones strong during menopause and beyond HERSHEY, Pa. -- When menopause hits, a person's risk of bone fractures goes up. Here's how to protect your skeleton (and deal with other menopause symptoms, too). Some hallmark signs of menopause, like hot flashes, weight gain and hair loss, garner a lot of attention. However, there's a less obvious change that those  more

BRISTOL, Connecticut, April 24 [Category: BizMedia] -- ESPN, a sports media company, posted the following news release: * * * Touch-down in Titletown: ESPN's College GameDay Built by The Home Depot Live from Green Bay with NFL Draft Coverage, Thursday and Friday * College GameDay live from the NFL Draft at 5 p.m. ET on Thursday and Friday on ESPN * College coaches and draftees join the show, including Abdul Carter (Penn State), Travis Hunter (Colorado), Ashton Jeanty (Boise State), Tetair  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 25 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Traditional forest medicinal plant ghost pipe used differently today UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa uniflora, remains a mystery. Now, with social media and the internet driving a resurgence in the harvest  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 22 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Updating admissions practices can open more doors for students, researchers say UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A new study led by a researcher at Penn State offers evidence that more comprehensive, or holistic, admissions practices can serve to provide opportunities for more students in graduate education -- especially in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The stud  more