Penn State has announced the recipients of the inaugural Presidential Public Impact 研究 奖, a new program designed to support faculty and students who are working on research projects that directly benefit communities.
研究ers at the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, together with collaborators at other institutions within 宾西法尼亚, have been awarded approximately $1.1 million in funding under the U.S. National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure program to develop a commonwealth-wide secure network and related cyberinfrastructure to interconnect 宾西法尼亚 colleges and universities.
Penn State researchers seeking to understand the reasons behind people’s attitudes towards wildlife and their decisions to support saving endangered species were recently awarded a Commonwealth Campuses 研究 Collaboration Development 程序 Award to address lack of research in this area, by developing an interactive game.
A series of seed grants from the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses has provided Penn State campus leaders with the support to implement transformative initiatives and best practices that have been successful at other University campuses.
由免费mg不朽情缘试玩领导, 学术界, national laboratories and industry have formed the Post-Industrial Midwest and Appalachia (PIMA) Nuclear 所有iance to harness carbon-free energy while educating and training the future energy workforce. The alliance will host a workshop to continue establishing their team, conceptualizing their goals and developing their project plans at Penn State 新肯辛顿’s Digital Foundry on Dec. 8-9.
The Digital Foundry at 新肯辛顿, a collaborative initiative of Penn State 新肯辛顿 and the Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland County, is slated to open in spring 2022 and has been named one of seven Smart Manufacturing Innovation Centers through the Department of Energy.
Seven Penn State faculty and staff were chosen to work with the Student Engagement Network on funded projects that research or contribute to student engagement.