Broadcast veteran, longtime WPSU volunteer becomes 'Morning Edition' host
July 24, 2024 at 03:00 PM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
Sally J. Sherman, a Penn State journalism graduate, will be the new host of "Morning Edition" on WPSU-FM. She takes over from Mel DeYoung, who retired in July after hosting the show for 13 years. "Morning Edition" airs from 5 to 9 a.m. each weekday on WPSU-FM.
Seats for Servicemembers football ticket request portal to open July 30
July 24, 2024 at 02:22 PM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
Veterans, service members and military family members can request complimentary tickets to attend the Sept. 21 Penn State-Kent State football game and pre-game tailgate.
Q&A: If you’re seeing this, is it meant for you?
July 24, 2024 at 09:44 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
Some TikTok users acknowledge the technology underlying personalized content online but can’t deny sometimes feeling that a higher power is involved, according to researchers from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. The researchers spoke with Penn State News about how and why TikTok users interpret algorithmic recommendations as a kind of divine intervention.
IST faculty member Aiping Xiong receives 2024 NSF CAREER Award
July 24, 2024 at 08:54 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
Aiping Xiong, associate professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, has earned a five-year, $585,818 U.S. National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award for a project to develop effective and easy-to-use tools for drivers to increase the situation awareness in connected and automated vehicles.
Roger Williams and Karen Magnuson named 2024 Renaissance Fund honorees
July 24, 2024 at 08:41 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
As Penn State’s Renaissance Fund celebrates its 48th year of recognizing outstanding community members and helping students in need, the Renaissance Fund Committee has announced that alumni, retired staff members, local volunteer leaders, and philanthropists Roger Williams and Karen Magnuson have been selected as the 2024 Renaissance Fund honorees.
$1.7M grant continues support for graduate students studying gene regulation
July 23, 2024 at 01:45 PM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
The Eukaryotic Gene Regulation Predoctoral Training Program, funded by the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, has been renewed for $1.7 million to support Penn State graduate students studying eukaryotic gene regulation over five years.
Ask an expert: Harris 2024? Here’s what election and campaign finance laws say
July 23, 2024 at 09:56 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
Penn State researchers explain what election and campaign finance laws say about Kamala Harris becoming the presumed presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket.
New NSF-funded center established to lead geologic CO2 storage innovation
July 23, 2024 at 09:28 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
A team from the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering and Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish a center named CO2 Storage Modeling, Analytics and Risk Reduction Technologies (CO2-SMART). CO2-SMART will be dedicated to innovation in geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide as a technology to enable industrial decarbonization at scale.
$1.1M ARPA-E award to fund project exploring potential of geologic hydrogen
July 23, 2024 at 03:23 AM | Source: https://www.psu.edu/news
A group of Penn State researchers is one of 18 teams selected to receive $1.1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The two-year cooperative agreement supports early-stage research and development to advance low-cost, low-emissions production of geologic hydrogen, which is produced naturally in Earth’s subsurface and could contribute to a more sustainable, energy-independent future.
Photo gallery: Top pictures from the Penn State Today summer photo contest
July 22, 2024 at 01:33 PM | Source: http://news.psu.edu/
The top 11 pictures in the summer Penn State Today photo contest, as selected by our editors, are highlighted in this photo gallery.