Centre Film Festival returns as destination event for filmmakers and film fans
October 16, 2025 at 07:56 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
A celebration of community and impact, thanks to the power of filmmaking, runs throughout much of the first half of November with the seventh annual Centre Film Festival — which offers hundreds of viewing options along with question-and-answer sessions with filmmakers, special themes and much more.
Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data
October 16, 2025 at 01:16 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
When recognizing faces and emotions, artificial intelligence (AI) can be biased, like classifying white people as happier than people from other racial backgrounds. This happens because the data used to train the AI contained a disproportionate number of happy white faces, leading it to correlate race with emotional expression. In a recent study, published in Media Psychology, researchers asked users to assess such skewed training data, but most users didn’t notice the bias — unless they were in the negatively portrayed group.
Penn State’s CAPS receives PA CARES designation for Higher Education
October 15, 2025 at 03:00 PM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
Penn State’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) has received the designation of PA CARES — Connect, Assess, Respond, Encourage and Support — which ensures postsecondary students have access to support, tools and resources to help prevent suicide and promote mental health and wellness for its students.
Doncheski to support ongoing transition, planning across Commonwealth Campuses
October 15, 2025 at 01:00 PM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
Michael Doncheski, chief academic officer and director of academic affairs at Penn State Mont Alto, has been appointed interim special assistant in the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses. In this role, Doncheski will work closely with campus chancellors, leadership teams and University partners to help guide and coordinate the academic and operational activities associated with campus transitions and closures.
Shedding light on materials in the physical, biological sciences
October 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. Nonlinear optical microscopy — a specialized imaging technique that looks for a change in the color of intense laser light — reveals how the light interacts with the sample and data that allows researchers to characterize the material’s structure and other properties. Now, researchers at Penn State have developed a computational framework that can interpret the nonlinear optical microscopy images to characterize the material in microscopic detail.
Q&A: Do momentum and heat always go with the flow?
October 15, 2025 at 09:49 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
A team of researchers at Penn State led by Tamy Guimarães, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, recently received a three-year, $710,741 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to investigate why and how momentum and heat are transported differently through turbulent flows of air and water. Guimarães discussed the goals of the project and the potential impact of the knowledge the team hopes to gain from this work.
Things to Do at Penn State: Oct. 16-23
October 15, 2025 at 09:32 AM | Source: http://news.psu.edu/
The Penn State School of Music's Family Weekend, a candy crawl at Penn State Altoona and Pumpkin Fest at the Arboretum are among the University's cultural highlights this weekend and next week.
Counting bites with AI might one day help prevent childhood obesity
October 15, 2025 at 09:26 AM | Source: http://news.psu.edu/
The speed at which children take bites is associated with their risk of obesity. Researchers at Penn State are developing a new artificial intelligence model to measure children’s bite rates. They described their progress in a newly published pilot study.
One Health Microbiome Center announces 2026 symposium, keynote speaker lineup
October 15, 2025 at 09:00 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
The One Health Microbiome Center will host its third biennial symposium at Penn State University Park on May 13 and 14, 2026. The symposium will feature keynote speakers from environmental, human and agricultural health sectors, and will bring together more than 200 researchers from across the commonwealth and beyond.
Clive Randall elected as fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
October 15, 2025 at 04:34 AM | Source: http://news.psu.edu/
Clive Randall, Evan Pugh University Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected as a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. The academy is an international scientific organization composed of the world’s leading scientists, scholars and engineers, dedicated to promoting excellence in science and technology.