Recent Research News & Features

• Cell phones to provide picture of human interaction
  Cell phones to their ears, a team of research participants will report their interpersonal interactions in real time to provide a better view of human behavior thanks to a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Aging as part of the National Institutes of Health's American Recover and Reinvestment Act funding....  Read on
  

• Search engines are source of learning, research finds
  Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it also is becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers. The researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching. They examined the search habits of 72 participants while conducting a total of 426 searching tasks. They found that search ...  Read on
  

• Healthy volunteers needed for Parkinson's disease study
  Researchers at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center are looking for healthy men and women to participate in a research study that may help increase understanding about Parkinson's disease....  Read on
  

Faculty Spotlight

• Four faculty members to receive Presidential Early Career Awards
  The White House announced today (July 9) that four Penn State researchers will receive 2009 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Sean Hallgren and Adam D. Smith, both assistant professors in computer science and engineering; Michael A. Hickner, assistant professor of material science and engineering; and Susan E. Parks, assistant professor of acoustics and research associate at the University's Applied Research Laboratory, were among 100 named by the White House to receive this highest honor presented to beginning scientists or engineers in the U.S. They will be recognized at a future ceremony at the White House... Read on
  
• Seven Penn State faculty win NSF CAREER awards
  Seven assistant professors at Penn State have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. This is the most prestigious award in support of junior faculty exemplifying the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research in the context of their organizations...  Read on
• Materials scientist named Security Science and Engineering Fellow
  Susan Trolier-McKinstry, professor of ceramic science and engineering at Penn State, has been selected as one of six distinguished scientists from U.S. universities to form the inaugural class of the Department of Defense's (DoD) new National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows Program. This program provides long-term funding to faculty scientists and engineers to pursue basic research of crucial importance to next-generation DoD technologies....  Read on