At BEST, Batteries Are Not Just a Black Box
A new Penn State lab is creating advanced lithium-ion batteries that will power a new generation of electric vehicles and store renewable energy.
January 26, 2012
Pizza, Soda, and Treating Leukemia
Faculty lunchtime discussions lead to possible leukemia treatment.
December 22, 2011
Food for the Future
Environmental historian Bryan McDonald discusses the impact of globalization on the safety and availability of food.
December 14, 2011
- Older than Dirt: Re-analysis by professor Beth Shapiro and her team shows jawbone to be from earliest modern human in Europe.
- Tippy Taps for Africa: Penn State Schreyer Honors College student Ce Zhang spearheads program to decrease child mortality.
- Refining Research: Merrell Fenske’s investigations of the composition of crude oil revolutionized the petroleum industry.
- Older than Dirt: Re-analysis by professor Beth Shapiro and her team shows jawbone to be from earliest modern human in Europe.
- Otherworldly: In underground caves and equally extreme environments, associate professor Jenn Macalady finds analogs for life on other Earths.
- "Clean up in Vial 2": Innovative nanoparticle purification system developed by professor Raymond Schaak and associate professor Mary Beth Williams uses magnetic fields.
- "A Horse is a Horse": A new genomic analysis points to an early branch in the equine family tree.
- PENNSTAC: The Birth of a Giant: How Penn State led the way into the Digital Age, with PENNSTAC, the first digital computer built and operated by an American university.
- Hemingway Becoming Hemingway: The publication this fall of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1907-1922 is a historic step in making the author’s own vivid self-portrait in letters accessible for the first time.
- Always on Time: An atomic clock housed at Britain’s National Physical Laboratory is the world's most accurate, according to a new evaluation by a team of physicists at NPL and Penn State.
- Pretty Slick: A new, improved absorbent developed by professor of materials science and engineering T.C. Chung should aid in oil spill cleanups.
- Atoms, ja Atoms!: Physicist Erwin Mueller was first to see an atom.
- Books and Media by Penn State Faculty: Bombshell: The Many Faces of Women Terrorists; by Mia Bloom; Poultry Science, Chicken Culture; by Susan Squier; Bone Heath for the Endurance Athlete;
by Thomas Whipple and Bob Eckhardt. - Where have all the dodos gone? MacArthur Fellow Beth Shapiro discusses the role of climate and humans in mass extinctions.
- A Baseball Empire: Mark Dyreson on America's national pastime and U.S. foreign policy.
- Regulating the American Physique: Rachel Moran, winner of the Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, delves into the politics of gender and physique.
- Features Archive: Research reports with text, graphics, audio, and video.
