Neeli&nbsp;Bendapudi’s&nbsp;new&nbsp;blog&nbsp;in Forbes&nbsp;urges education and business leaders&nbsp;to&nbsp;invest together in AI readiness.

Leadership insights: President Bendapudi on AI-ready graduates and people-first innovation | Penn State University

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Neeli Bendapudi’s new blog in Forbes urges education and business leaders to invest together in AI readiness.

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Leadership insights: President Bendapudi on AI-ready graduates and people-first innovation

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Hui Yang, Gary and Sheila Bello Chair in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State, aims to address issues around heart disease and treatment with virtually engineered digital twins — or digital replicas — of the human heart for more accurate, personalized treatment. &nbsp;

Engineering a better heartbeat | Penn State University

Hui Yang, Gary and Sheila Bello Chair in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State, aims to address issues around heart disease and treatment with virtually engineered digital twins — or digital replicas — of the human heart for more accurate, personalized treatment.  

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Research

Engineering a better heartbeat

Arts and Architecture

College of Arts and Architecture

Milagros Ponce de León, professor of scenic design in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, was the scenic designer for&nbsp;“Disney: The Tale of Moana,” a theatrical production aboard the Disney Treasure cruise ship, which was recently&nbsp;received the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions’ 2025 Brass Ring Excellence Award for the most creative year-round theatrical production.&nbsp;

Disney cruise production featuring theatre professor's set design wins award | Penn State University

Milagros Ponce de León, professor of scenic design in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, was the scenic designer for “Disney: The Tale of Moana,” a theatrical production aboard the Disney Treasure cruise ship, which was recently received the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions’ 2025 Brass Ring Excellence Award for the most creative year-round theatrical production. 

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Disney cruise production featuring theatre professor's set design wins award

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Four-peat: Women's ice hockey wins fourth straight AHA tournament championship

Making mini-lightning in a block of plastic

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Save the Date: Human Resources hosting free ‘Well-Being Week’ webinars April 6-10

Student-led team advances in global Emergency Response Flyer competition 

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Penn State suspends University-affiliated travel to the Middle East indefinitely

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Bohrer named chancellor of Penn State Schuylkill

Landmark estate commitment will strengthen STEM programming at Penn State Berks

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Routine helps children adjust to school, but harsh parenting may undo benefits

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Karen Thole named inaugural director of Penn State National Security Institute

Board approves proposed acquisition of State College Regional Airport by the Centre County Airport Authority 

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Commonwealth Campus investments strengthen faculty, student research excellence

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COVID-19 infection predicts higher risk of kidney disease, study finds

Borrowing from biology to power next-gen data storage

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Penn State makes strategic investments to prepare students for an AI-driven future 

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Lloyd appointed to two-year term as dean of the Penn State College of Education

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A team led by researchers at Penn State has developed thermometers, each smaller than an ant’s antenna, that can be packed directly onto a single computer chip, offering highly efficient temperature monitoring that could potentially help mitigate overheating-related performance issues.&nbsp;

Tiny thermometers offer on-chip temperature monitoring for processors | Penn State University

A team led by researchers at Penn State has developed thermometers, each smaller than an ant’s antenna, that can be packed directly onto a single computer chip, offering highly efficient temperature monitoring that could potentially help mitigate overheating-related performance issues. 

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Tiny thermometers offer on-chip temperature monitoring for processors

Earth and Mineral Sciences

College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Researchers in Penn State's Department of Geography visited California's Lassen Volcanic National Park in 2019 and again in 2021 to see how the forest had recovered — or not — from naturally occurring forest fires as far back as the mid-1980s. However, when the massive Dixie fire rolled over all their sample points, destroying nearly half the total vegetation, they pivoted their focus to how our forests will respond — and how resilient they will be — to future mega fires.

Forest exhibits resilience after California mega fire | Penn State University

Researchers in Penn State's Department of Geography visited California's Lassen Volcanic National Park in 2019 and again in 2021 to see how the forest had recovered — or not — from naturally occurring forest fires as far back as the mid-1980s. However, when the massive Dixie fire rolled over all their sample points, destroying nearly half the total vegetation, they pivoted their focus to how our forests will respond — and how resilient they will be — to future mega fires.

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Forest exhibits resilience after California mega fire

Health and Human Development

College of Health and Human Development

Children who come from households with well-established routines display fewer behavioral problems during the transition to school, but harsh parenting can undermine the advantages that routine provides, according to a new&nbsp;study&nbsp;co-led by&nbsp;Penn State&nbsp;researchers.

Routine helps children adjust to school, but harsh parenting may undo benefits | Penn State University

Children who come from households with well-established routines display fewer behavioral problems during the transition to school, but harsh parenting can undermine the advantages that routine provides, according to a new study co-led by Penn State researchers.

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Featured Research

Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi shared her thoughts in a new blog in Forbes highlighting the importance of valuing people in the age of AI — and how universities like Penn State are preparing students for the workplaces of the future.

Why People Are The Smartest AI Investment—And What It Means For Universities

Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, may be better suited by a new name: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy. Unlike the fictional ragtag team of unenthusiastic heroes, the microscopic animals are providing real insight into how humans could adapt extraterrestrial resources to support space exploration, as well as whether such resources could help protect against the Earthly contaminants that humans might shed. This is according to an international study co-led by Penn State Altoona Professor of Microbiology Corien Bakermans.

‘Water bears’ reveal potential for adapting, protecting Martian resources

Penn State researchers have developed a new high-temperature polymer capacitor that can store four times more energy than conventional designs while operating at temperatures up to 482 degrees Fahrenheit. The advance could improve power systems in electric vehicles, data centers, aerospace systems and other high-heat environments where today’s capacitors quickly fail.

New plastic material could solve energy storage challenge, researchers report

A new study offers a look at how the building blocks of life might have originated in the cosmos. Penn State scientists suggest that the amino acids found on the asteroid Bennu did not require warm, liquid water to form, as previously assumed. The team analyzed tiny samples, consisting of roughly 4.6-billion-year-old rocks, delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to Earth in 2023.

Radioactive space can host building blocks of life, asteroid samples reveal

Researchers at Penn State say they’ve developed a new hydrogel material inspired by octopus skin that can encode images directly into its structure. The imprinted images then disappear and reappear when the skin is exposed to subtle changes in temperature or a surrounding solvent. The result is a “4D” synthetic smart skin capable of revealing hidden images and shifting surface patterns.

Study: Octopus-inspired material could lead to better camouflage tech

How a new father behaves toward his baby can change family dynamics in a way that affects the child’s heart and metabolic health years later, according to a new study by researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development.

Early dad's involvement linked to lasting child health, study finds

About half of older men suffer from sleep problems, back pain or both, according to Soomi Lee, associate professor of human development and family studies at Penn State. Lee recently led a study to investigate whether one precedes the other and found that back problems can predict sleep problems years later in men over 65 years old.

Study: Back pain might predict future sleep problems among men

Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi was featured in a CEO Magazine interview highlighting her belief in the transformative power of higher education and her efforts to expand access, advance ethical innovation, and strengthen the university’s educational, research, and economic impact.

President of PSU is redefining the power of education to transform lives

A new study led by researchers at Penn State found melanoma case rates tracking higher in counties with higher areas of cultivated land, where the use of chemical herbicides and pesticides can be higher.

Penn State study finds higher incidence of skin cancers in Pa.’s Farm Belt

In a significant advancement for materials science, scientists have successfully created niobium sulfide metallic nanotubes with stable, predictable properties for the first time. An international team, including Penn State researchers, achieved the long-sought feat using an unexpected ingredient—common table salt. According to researchers, the discovery could pave the way for faster electronics, efficient superconducting wires, and future quantum technologies.

Study: Common salt helps create nanomaterial for high-speed electronics

Researchers at Penn State have proposed a novel design for a lithium-ion (Li) battery. It could address the long-standing performance and stability issues of standard Li batteries in extreme temperatures. The design, dubbed the All-Climate Battery (ACB), was developed to fix a core flaw in standard Li batteries.

‘All-Climate Battery’ developed at Penn State could keep EVs running in extreme heat, cold

The discovery of a possible “super-Earth” less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an international team including researchers from Penn State. They dubbed the exoplanet, named GJ 251 c, a “super-Earth” as data suggest it is almost four times as massive as the Earth and likely to be rocky planet.

Newly discovered ‘super-Earth’ offers prime target in search for alien life

A "super-Earth" exoplanet in the habitable zone of its star has been detected by an international team, including Penn State researchers, less than 20 light-years away, putting it near the top of the list for best places to look for life beyond our solar system.

'Super-Earth' less than 20 light-years away is an exciting lead in the search for life

Organic beekeeping can support healthy and productive honey bee colonies, and a new study led by researchers at Penn State found that adopting organic honey bee colony management is not only profitable, but in some cases, it can be even more profitable than conventional management. The research couldn't come at a more opportune time, as a separate study found that 2025 marked the largest-ever honey bee colony losses in the United States, citing viruses spread by parasitic mites as the culprit.

Researchers discover solution to major issue in beekeeping

Electric vehicles (EVs) can have lower fuel costs and reduce emissions relative to cars that use gasoline, but they are only a practical option if drivers have convenient ways to charge them. For people who live in multi-unit dwellings or in urban areas, access to charging infrastructure may be particularly limited, which in turn limits EV adoption. To address this issue, a team of researchers at Penn State created a scalable framework to develop, analyze and evaluate using streetlights as a low-cost, equitable EV charging option.

Streetlights could power the future of EV charging, researchers find

An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent’s most powerful civilizations. Known as Tiwanaku, the ancient society is widely considered by archaeologists to be one of the earliest examples of civilization in the Andes and a precursor of the Inca empire, but it mysteriously disappeared about a thousand years ago. Now, a team led by scientists at Penn State and in Bolivia have discovered a Tiwanaku temple, shedding new light on what the society looked like in its prime.