Faculty achievement

Penn State Libraries researchers focus on findings that benefit society

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:47:48 -0500

Faculty librarians conduct scholarly research across disciplines and with far-reaching impacts.

Shenango professor showcases malware detection model at Hawaii conference

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 03:21:29 -0500

Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Dima Rabadi presented her research paper titled, “BERT-Cuckoo15: A Comprehensive Framework for Malware Detection Using 15 Dynamic Feature Types,” at the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences earlier this month.

Fourteen Penn State Dickinson Law scholars present at 2025 AALS annual meeting

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:50:53 -0500

A large contingent of Penn State Dickinson Law faculty shared their insights and expertise at the 2025 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting held in San Francisco on Jan. 7-11. Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law Danielle M. Conway was elected president-elect of AALS on the final day of the meeting.

Climate risk researcher joins the Institute of Energy and the Environment

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:00:00 -0500

Nicolas Choquette-Levy, a researcher with expertise in how climate risks are reshaping migration and land-use patterns, has joined the faculty of the Institute of Energy and the Environment and will work with the Penn State Climate Consortium.

Researchers recognized for excellence by Institute of Energy and the Environment

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:00:00 -0500

The Institute of Energy and the Environment presented awards to six Penn State faculty members for their collaborative, interdisciplinary research efforts and mentorship.

López-Uribe awarded presidential honor for early career scientists

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:28:12 -0500

Margarita López-Uribe, the Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor of Entomology in the College of Agricultural Sciences, was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

School of Music director to serve as featured clinician at Texas conference

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:11:25 -0500

Penn State School of Music Director Ann Marie Stanley has been selected as a featured clinician for the 2025 Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention, where she will present four empowering workshops for collegiate music students and new teachers, showcasing her leadership in music education.

NSF CAREER Award supports pursuit of ‘soft’ solutions for spinal cord injuries

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:07:48 -0500

Tao Zhou, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics and of biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $660,000 U.S. National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award to develop injectable and stretchable hydrogel electrodes to treat spinal cord injuries.

Predicting lab earthquakes with physics-informed artificial intelligence

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:53:14 -0500

Led by Parisa Shokouhi, Penn State professor of engineering science and of acoustics, a team of researchers refined an artificial intelligence approach to predicting earthquakes in the laboratory, which may one day help forecast natural earthquakes.

Building a ‘honeypot’ of fake cameras, networks to deceive military adversaries

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:52:02 -0500

Three computer science researchers in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are teaming up to build a “honeypot,” a decoy suite of fake networks, devices and domains, to entrap and deceive such hackers. They received a two-year, $557,000 grant from the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command, with the possibility of renewal.

History professor uses Fulbright to teach environmental history in Turkey

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:34:07 -0500

Penn State Associate Professor of History Faisal Husain is spending the 2024-25 academic year at Istanbul, Turkey’s Boğaziçi University, thanks to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. He is one of 12 Penn State faculty members who received a Fulbright Scholar Award for the 2024-25 academic year.

Penn State professor named among most influential in shaping education

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:19:22 -0500

Erica Frankenberg, professor of education (educational leadership) and demography at Penn State and director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights, was recently named to the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings list of top 200 U.S.-based university scholars who influence education policy and practice. Frankenberg has been on the list every year since 2015.

Biosensing platform simultaneously detects vitamin C and SARS-CoV-2

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:54:50 -0500

Penn State engineering researchers have developed a portable and wireless device to simultaneously detect vitamin C and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, by integrating commercial transistors with printed laser-induced graphene.

Getting over the hump to improve fuel cell manufacturing

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:40:05 -0500

The production of fuel cells requires the use of a rapid laser welding process; however, welding at too high a speed results in humping, marked by surface irregularities on the weld seam. A team led by researchers at Penn State has combined observation and analytical modeling to identify the conditions that produce humping at high laser welding speeds and to adjust the process parameters to increase weld speed without causing surface irregularities.

Four Penn State faculty members named American Association of Geographers fellows

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:42:26 -0500

Four Penn State Department of Geography faculty members — Lorraine Dowler, Joshua Inwood, Zhenlong Li and Emily Rosenman — have been named 2025 fellows of the American Association of Geographers.

Stuckeman School to host mixed reality architecture exhibition through March

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:32:10 -0500

The Stuckeman School will be debuting “Visionary Visuals Re:Vamped,” an exhibition that will look at the future through the lens of a changing, modern architecture landscape, at 5 p.m. on Jan. 21 in the Rouse Gallery in the Stuckeman Family Building.