Celebrate the power of giving back this #GivingTuesday
Beginning at 6:55 p.m. EST (18:55 in military time, representing the year of Penn State's founding) on Dec. 2 until midnight on Dec. 3, members of the Penn State community — alumni, parents, friends, fans, faculty, staff and students — are invited to make a gift to any area of the University and celebrate the power of giving back.
Professor leads national workshop, authors cybersecurity report for White House
Patrick McDaniel, the William L. Weiss Chair in Information and Communications Technology in the Penn State College of Engineering, was selected to lead a technical workshop with experts from across the nation on cybersecurity, and to author a subsequent report.
Grant will support expanded use of artificial intelligence for crop health
A research team developing artificial-intelligence-based solutions for diagnosing and managing threats to crop health has received a grant to expand the technology to assist more smallholder farmers around the world. Co-led by David Hughes, associate professor of entomology and biology, the team developed a smartphone app that is capable of accurately diagnosing crop diseases without an internet connection.