A note from Neeli: Penn State steering the future of autonomous vehicle

At the Larson Transportation Institute Test Track, take a ride with Penn State President Bendapudi and the faculty and students who are helping develop tech for self-driving cars.

Click the link below to watch a behind-the-scenes video of the autonomous vehicle demonstration President Bendapudi experienced with Andrew Read, senior vice president for research, and Tonya Peeples, the Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering.  

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NEWS: Penn State Elevates Research Commercialization and Innovation

The Office of Technology Transfer, formerly known as the Office of Technology Management, helps protect research innovations. "The mission of the Office of Technology Transfer is to drive economic growth and societal impact, fostering a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship," said Andrew Read, senior vice president for research at Penn State, “the name change and amplification of this unit is a testament to our continued focus on maximizing the value of Penn State’s great research enterprise." Read more

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Podcast with Cocoziello Institute leaders

NAIOP’s official podcast, Inside CRE, recently featured Peter Cocoziello the founder, president and CEO of Advance Realty Investors, a New Jersey-based real estate development, investment and management company, and the founding chair of the Cocoziello Institute and Scarlett Miller is a professor of industrial engineering and of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Penn State and serves as the Institute’s inaugural director. 

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Penn State research-based startup works to improve dementia screening process

DementiAnalytics participates in Invent Penn State NSF I-Corps program to commercialize AI-powered screening platform Read more

Bringing health care back to a rural Pennsylvania community

Clinicians from the Penn State College of Medicine initiated conversations with local, state, federal, University and health system leaders to see how they could help area residents in this small, rural community in central PA, access basic health care needs. Read more

Penn State, Shell announce collaboration focused on energy and sustainability

Penn State and Shell USA Inc. have announced the launch of a collaboration that will support efforts across the University’s mission of research, education and community impact. An initial commitment from Shell of more than $1 million will fund initiatives focused on energy transition, decarbonization, polymer recycling and biodiversity, and the creation of an inclusive and innovative energy workforce. Read more

Re-engineering medical simulation training for the next generation of physicians

Researchers in Penn State’s Colleges of Engineering and of Medicine aim to reduce error rates in central-line placement by designing and implementing a novel robotic training program that uses life-like manikins and real-time feedback to simulate patient scenarios. Read more

Researchers react: Science fact versus fiction in new ‘Twisters’ film

Watch as Penn State tornado scientists Yvette Richardson and Paul Markowski, graduate student storm chaser Quinlan Mulhern and Penn State Storm Chase Team student president Allison Sousa react to the new “Twisters” film, separating science fact from science fiction. Click here

$3.8M NIH grant funds 3D tissue and organism visualization project

Keith Cheng, distinguished professor of pathology, of pharmacology and of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Penn State College of Medicine, has been awarded a four-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further develop novel methods for 3D tissue imaging. Read more

Researchers use CT scanning to study spotted lanternfly anatomy

A team of Penn State researchers is collaborating with the Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment's Center for Quantitative Imaging to detail the spotted lanternfly's anatomy and physiology. Read more

NIH awards College of Medicine researchers $8.5M to study insomnia treatments

Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine have been awarded more than $8.5 million by the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study insomnia treatments. Read more

Biomedical engineer to use $2M NIH grant to improve human tissue repair

A team of Penn State researchers led by Yong Wang was recently awarded a four-year, $2.02 million National Institutes of Health grant to explore how to safely add growth factors to collagen used by doctors for tissue repair. Read more

Atoms in advanced alloys find preferred neighbors when solidifying

Learn about a surprising way atoms arrange themselves and find their preferred neighbors in multi-principal element alloys could enable engineers to “tune” these unique and useful materials for enhanced performance in specific applications ranging from advanced power plants to aerospace technologies. Read more

Alternative understanding of brain leads to new treatments for stroke patients

Penn State researchers say that complementary dominance has led to a better understanding of how the brain works and has guided the development of new treatments for people who have experienced strokes. Read more

Researchers, staff work with Pittsburgh municipalities to predict geohazards

Penn State students, Carnegie Mellon students, Penn State faculty and staff from the Franco Harris Pittsburgh Center at Penn State are collaborating to use existing fiber optic cables to predict dangerous potential geohazards like flooding, landslides and sinkholes in Pittsburgh. Read more

If you’re seeing this, is it meant for you?

Some TikTok users acknowledge the technology underlying personalized content online but can’t deny sometimes feeling that a higher power is involved, according to Penn State researchers.  Read more

Announcements & other news

• $5M grant to engage Indigenous communities in climate change research
• Australia offers lessons for increasing American life expectancy
• Ben Franklin TechCelerator Program is accepting applications from PA-based entrepreneurs, researchers, grad students and more
• Applied Research Laboratory receives national recognition for internship program
• Penn State’s College of Ag Sciences, Phospholutions forge strategic partnership
• Stuckeman architecture professor contributes to mobile public art installation
• NCEMS aims to ‘build a nationwide community' and address research barriers

IST student interns with dragonflies in Ghana

Rachel Desulme is a fourth-year student majoring in data sciences in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. Read a Q&A with Desulme about her experience in Ghana analyzing dragonfly wings through a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded program. Read more