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The tower of Old Main, partially blocked by trees with orange and red leaves.

Oct. 15 symposium to explore AI's role in life sciences research

September 17, 2026

A 3D research visualization illustrates the phenomenon of flexoelectricity in graphene, where bending the material can influence the flow of electricity

Tiny wrinkles bend physics to change how electricity moves through graphene

September 17, 2026

Red hot viscous liquid flowing out of a dark pipe

Can steelmaking waste help solar power store energy?

September 15, 2026

A woman with light brown, chin-length hair wearing a dark green shirt in front of a yellow background.

Sept. 18 talk to discuss improved models of earthquake-induced soil liquefaction

September 15, 2026

Melissa Gonte wearing a blue lab coat and safety glasses in a lab.

Penn State mineral engineering doctoral student wins Copper Club scholarship

September 15, 2026

Digital replica of hand touches real-time hand.

Digital Twins Literacy Center to engage students in immersive technologies

September 14, 2026

Nittany Lion Shrine at right with blurry red foliage at left.

ICDS Symposium scheduled for Oct. 14

September 11, 2026

two children smile over shared laptop

Peer-led computing camps engage children, study finds

September 09, 2026

A bearded man wearing an orange USGS shirt and sunglasses balanced on the brim of a baseball cap standing in front of a lava spurt of an active volcano

Sept. 11 talk to discuss improving volcano monitoring through automation tools

September 08, 2026

3D model of native protein structure and misfolded protein structure showing that misfolded protein evades cellular quality control system.

Cellular maintenance crew may miss as much as half of certain misfolded proteins

September 02, 2026

CTSI Leadership and Scholars smiling and listening attentively to a colleague speak during a meeting in a conference room.

NIH awards Penn State CTSI $28.2M to improve rural health

September 01, 2026

A woman with red hair smiling

Sept. 4 talk to focus on training neural networks to improve volcano monitoring

August 31, 2026

Drone shot of Westgate Building at Penn State

College of Information Sciences and Technology welcomes six new faculty members

August 26, 2026

images of distant galaxies

Hidden stars suggest that distant galaxies are more massive than they appear

August 21, 2026

Students from the C-TEQ Summer School gather for a group photo.

Quantum research focus of summer training school for higher education students

August 06, 2026

Life Sciences Building

Huck Institutes announces recipients of nine interdisciplinary seed grants

July 28, 2026

A group of people pose in front of a projector screen for a photo

Penn State wraps first listening tour for K-12 leaders to shape AI in education

July 27, 2026

Lion Shrine head on

Penn State scientists to lead three Genesis Mission projects

July 23, 2026

Human brain technology drawing in blue.

AI Hub honors 14 individuals with Penn State AI Awards

July 22, 2026

High school to high-tech healing: Intern helps drive AI cancer research

July 16, 2026

Zhenlong Li, wearing glasses and a green collared shirt, smiles outdoors with blurred greenery in the background.

Geography faculty member earns national research award

July 16, 2026

A scientific figure illustrating how different atomic arrangements of the same material can lead to substantially changes in corrosion susceptibility, with one simulated material appearing much more corroded than the other two examples

Metals’ atomic arrangement can create ‘corrosion highways’ in nuclear reactors

July 13, 2026

The Allen E. and Allen M. Pearce professor of industrial engineering's name sits engraved on a plaque next to Kumara's Society of Manufacturing Engineering 2026 fellow medal.

Industrial engineering professor named manufacturing engineering fellow

July 13, 2026

illustration of the globe with pixels of red and aqua

Penn State Data Commons powers two decades of open science

July 06, 2026

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Thawing ground, future questions: Decoding Arctic climate in a Pennsylvania lab

June 26, 2026

woman in purple shirt looks through telescope

Penn State ranks No. 20 in space science in US News 2026-27 'Global Universities'

June 24, 2026

expansive glass and red brick campus building

College of IST awards seed grants to five research projects

June 23, 2026

Big data visualization with blue lines.

Four researchers win data harmonization competition

June 01, 2026

Blue AI circuit circle with tech lines.

$1.3M NSF grant to expand statewide cyberinfrastructure for researchers

May 20, 2026

Landscape photo of Penn State's arboretum

New Beescape updates include county-level plant recommendations for pollinators

May 19, 2026

Sadan Kulturel-Konak works with a table on a co-creation session at the Food Security and Healthy Futures Symposium.

Researchers, community collaborate at food security symposium

May 14, 2026

A ground-up shot of the Old Main bell tower with green leaves in the foreground and a blue sky in the background

AI and the Economy Initiative to host second workshop

May 07, 2026

An artistic representation of Greek letter mu

Particle thought to break physics followed rules all along

April 22, 2026

Margaret Busse, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and Institute for Energy and the Environment co-funded faculty, works on her digital twins project in the CIE Lab.

Digital Twins Hub’s Faculty-in-Residence Program highlights mentorship, research

April 10, 2026

person at AI summit in India

Penn State signs MOU with Indian AI Research Organization

April 10, 2026

a portrait of Jae Wan Ahn

Q&A: How will policy shape the future of AI in Pennsylvania?

March 31, 2026

Blue AI circuit board.

Penn State AI Hub seeking nominations for annual Artificial Intelligence Awards

March 23, 2026

laptop screen showing chatbot brands

AI-powered chatbots can become too agreeable over time, researchers report

March 18, 2026

Abdullah Konak stands at a table full of people at a workshop.

Registration open for Food Security and Access for Healthy Futures Symposium

March 17, 2026

Close-up of a person holding and tapping on a smartphone, with floating numbers, graphs, and data visualizations overlaid around the device.

Lecture to discuss how mobile "games" detect cognitive decline, dementia risk

March 05, 2026

three people wearing business casual stand at the foot of a staircase

IST names Cai, Huang and Lee to lead college’s first academic departments

March 05, 2026

Seedlings leading to a lit light bulb

2026-27 Huck Seed Grant Program opens call for proposals

March 04, 2026

Three men pose for a photo in front of a television that reads "Self-organizing Heart Modeling and Simulation" with a series of graphics of graphics showing the heart in different phases of self-organization, with electrical maps of a heart beneath it.

Engineering a better heartbeat

March 03, 2026

plates held over a long buffet with several types of meat and other foods

Variety: Spice of life or risk factor for overeating?

February 27, 2026

Penn State astrophysicist Chad Hanna named distinguished professor

February 20, 2026

Nittany Lion Shrine

Penn State names 14 new distinguished professors for 2026

February 16, 2026

Hands hold up a group brainstorming graphic.

ICDS accepting proposals for next cohort of rising researchers

February 04, 2026

Two individuals in front of a cartoon drawing of a volcano

Ask a scientist: What happens to animals during a volcanic eruption?

January 28, 2026

Christelle Wauthier sits on a rough volcanic rock during fieldwork.

Coffee Hour starts Jan. 23 with talk on volcanic hazards and remote sensing

January 20, 2026

Person crouching to look at plants

Genetic teamwork may be the secret to climate-resilient plants, researchers find

December 17, 2025

Image of E. coli bacterial cell with boxes zooming in on differently colored proteins.

For certain life-essential proteins in E. coli, repair is more likely

December 16, 2025

screenshot of VR experience showing person holding bird

Bird researchers use virtual reality to bring fieldwork experience to classroom

December 16, 2025

Golden glowing lightbulb atop a blurred-out laptop.

ICDS seeks proposals for Faculty Upskilling Fellowships program

December 12, 2025

Abstract DNA and data science lines appear in blue.

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences funds eight mid-scale seed grants

December 12, 2025

Jainendra Jain works with a student.

Penn State launches quantum theory center

December 09, 2025

Information transfer into globe.

ICDS Quantum Hub awards Quantum SuperSEED grants

December 05, 2025

Two co-workers brainstorm wireframe designs.

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences seeks Rising Researchers proposals

December 03, 2025

Blue square with circuit board thin wires and lines.

Institute funds 20 faculty fellows in AI and quantum sciences

November 20, 2025

A screenshot of a geographic information system application showing streets and schools.

Mapping a new frontier with AI-integrated geographic information systems

November 06, 2025

an illustration of a planet and a star

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

October 23, 2025

Students stand at their research posters with symposium attendees.

ICDS Symposium spotlights student, faculty research

October 22, 2025

A child sits at a table with one of the sample meals used in the study and looks at a research assistant prior to eating.

Counting bites with AI might one day help prevent childhood obesity

October 15, 2025

Hands type on a computer with brain technology scan in blue.

New seed grant program accepting proposals for multi-disciplinary research

October 07, 2025

An aerial view of the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980.

New tool helps forecast volcano slope collapses and tsunamis

October 03, 2025

Guido Cervone, Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences director, stands at a podium to give welcome remarks at last year's ICDS Symposium.

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium scheduled for Oct. 6

September 15, 2025

Artist’s impression of a black hole star

Mysterious ‘red dots’ in early universe may be ‘black hole star’ atmospheres

September 12, 2025

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The tower of Old Main, partially blocked by trees with orange and red leaves.

Oct. 15 symposium to explore AI's role in life sciences research

September 17, 2026

A 3D research visualization illustrates the phenomenon of flexoelectricity in graphene, where bending the material can influence the flow of electricity

Tiny wrinkles bend physics to change how electricity moves through graphene

September 17, 2026

Red hot viscous liquid flowing out of a dark pipe

Can steelmaking waste help solar power store energy?

September 15, 2026

A woman with light brown, chin-length hair wearing a dark green shirt in front of a yellow background.

Sept. 18 talk to discuss improved models of earthquake-induced soil liquefaction

September 15, 2026

Melissa Gonte wearing a blue lab coat and safety glasses in a lab.

Penn State mineral engineering doctoral student wins Copper Club scholarship

September 15, 2026

Digital replica of hand touches real-time hand.

Digital Twins Literacy Center to engage students in immersive technologies

September 14, 2026

Nittany Lion Shrine at right with blurry red foliage at left.

ICDS Symposium scheduled for Oct. 14

September 11, 2026

two children smile over shared laptop

Peer-led computing camps engage children, study finds

September 09, 2026

A bearded man wearing an orange USGS shirt and sunglasses balanced on the brim of a baseball cap standing in front of a lava spurt of an active volcano

Sept. 11 talk to discuss improving volcano monitoring through automation tools

September 08, 2026

3D model of native protein structure and misfolded protein structure showing that misfolded protein evades cellular quality control system.

Cellular maintenance crew may miss as much as half of certain misfolded proteins

September 02, 2026

CTSI Leadership and Scholars smiling and listening attentively to a colleague speak during a meeting in a conference room.

NIH awards Penn State CTSI $28.2M to improve rural health

September 01, 2026

A woman with red hair smiling

Sept. 4 talk to focus on training neural networks to improve volcano monitoring

August 31, 2026

Drone shot of Westgate Building at Penn State

College of Information Sciences and Technology welcomes six new faculty members

August 26, 2026

images of distant galaxies

Hidden stars suggest that distant galaxies are more massive than they appear

August 21, 2026

Students from the C-TEQ Summer School gather for a group photo.

Quantum research focus of summer training school for higher education students

August 06, 2026

Life Sciences Building

Huck Institutes announces recipients of nine interdisciplinary seed grants

July 28, 2026

A group of people pose in front of a projector screen for a photo

Penn State wraps first listening tour for K-12 leaders to shape AI in education

July 27, 2026

Lion Shrine head on

Penn State scientists to lead three Genesis Mission projects

July 23, 2026

Human brain technology drawing in blue.

AI Hub honors 14 individuals with Penn State AI Awards

July 22, 2026

High school to high-tech healing: Intern helps drive AI cancer research

July 16, 2026

Zhenlong Li, wearing glasses and a green collared shirt, smiles outdoors with blurred greenery in the background.

Geography faculty member earns national research award

July 16, 2026

A scientific figure illustrating how different atomic arrangements of the same material can lead to substantially changes in corrosion susceptibility, with one simulated material appearing much more corroded than the other two examples

Metals’ atomic arrangement can create ‘corrosion highways’ in nuclear reactors

July 13, 2026

The Allen E. and Allen M. Pearce professor of industrial engineering's name sits engraved on a plaque next to Kumara's Society of Manufacturing Engineering 2026 fellow medal.

Industrial engineering professor named manufacturing engineering fellow

July 13, 2026

illustration of the globe with pixels of red and aqua

Penn State Data Commons powers two decades of open science

July 06, 2026

Young man working in a lab

Thawing ground, future questions: Decoding Arctic climate in a Pennsylvania lab

June 26, 2026

woman in purple shirt looks through telescope

Penn State ranks No. 20 in space science in US News 2026-27 'Global Universities'

June 24, 2026

expansive glass and red brick campus building

College of IST awards seed grants to five research projects

June 23, 2026

Big data visualization with blue lines.

Four researchers win data harmonization competition

June 01, 2026

Blue AI circuit circle with tech lines.

$1.3M NSF grant to expand statewide cyberinfrastructure for researchers

May 20, 2026

Landscape photo of Penn State's arboretum

New Beescape updates include county-level plant recommendations for pollinators

May 19, 2026

Sadan Kulturel-Konak works with a table on a co-creation session at the Food Security and Healthy Futures Symposium.

Researchers, community collaborate at food security symposium

May 14, 2026

A ground-up shot of the Old Main bell tower with green leaves in the foreground and a blue sky in the background

AI and the Economy Initiative to host second workshop

May 07, 2026

An artistic representation of Greek letter mu

Particle thought to break physics followed rules all along

April 22, 2026

Margaret Busse, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and Institute for Energy and the Environment co-funded faculty, works on her digital twins project in the CIE Lab.

Digital Twins Hub’s Faculty-in-Residence Program highlights mentorship, research

April 10, 2026

person at AI summit in India

Penn State signs MOU with Indian AI Research Organization

April 10, 2026

a portrait of Jae Wan Ahn

Q&A: How will policy shape the future of AI in Pennsylvania?

March 31, 2026

Blue AI circuit board.

Penn State AI Hub seeking nominations for annual Artificial Intelligence Awards

March 23, 2026

laptop screen showing chatbot brands

AI-powered chatbots can become too agreeable over time, researchers report

March 18, 2026

Abdullah Konak stands at a table full of people at a workshop.

Registration open for Food Security and Access for Healthy Futures Symposium

March 17, 2026

Close-up of a person holding and tapping on a smartphone, with floating numbers, graphs, and data visualizations overlaid around the device.

Lecture to discuss how mobile "games" detect cognitive decline, dementia risk

March 05, 2026

three people wearing business casual stand at the foot of a staircase

IST names Cai, Huang and Lee to lead college’s first academic departments

March 05, 2026

Seedlings leading to a lit light bulb

2026-27 Huck Seed Grant Program opens call for proposals

March 04, 2026

Three men pose for a photo in front of a television that reads "Self-organizing Heart Modeling and Simulation" with a series of graphics of graphics showing the heart in different phases of self-organization, with electrical maps of a heart beneath it.

Engineering a better heartbeat

March 03, 2026

plates held over a long buffet with several types of meat and other foods

Variety: Spice of life or risk factor for overeating?

February 27, 2026

Penn State astrophysicist Chad Hanna named distinguished professor

February 20, 2026

Nittany Lion Shrine

Penn State names 14 new distinguished professors for 2026

February 16, 2026

Hands hold up a group brainstorming graphic.

ICDS accepting proposals for next cohort of rising researchers

February 04, 2026

Two individuals in front of a cartoon drawing of a volcano

Ask a scientist: What happens to animals during a volcanic eruption?

January 28, 2026

Christelle Wauthier sits on a rough volcanic rock during fieldwork.

Coffee Hour starts Jan. 23 with talk on volcanic hazards and remote sensing

January 20, 2026

Person crouching to look at plants

Genetic teamwork may be the secret to climate-resilient plants, researchers find

December 17, 2025

Image of E. coli bacterial cell with boxes zooming in on differently colored proteins.

For certain life-essential proteins in E. coli, repair is more likely

December 16, 2025

screenshot of VR experience showing person holding bird

Bird researchers use virtual reality to bring fieldwork experience to classroom

December 16, 2025

Golden glowing lightbulb atop a blurred-out laptop.

ICDS seeks proposals for Faculty Upskilling Fellowships program

December 12, 2025

Abstract DNA and data science lines appear in blue.

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences funds eight mid-scale seed grants

December 12, 2025

Jainendra Jain works with a student.

Penn State launches quantum theory center

December 09, 2025

Information transfer into globe.

ICDS Quantum Hub awards Quantum SuperSEED grants

December 05, 2025

Two co-workers brainstorm wireframe designs.

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences seeks Rising Researchers proposals

December 03, 2025

Blue square with circuit board thin wires and lines.

Institute funds 20 faculty fellows in AI and quantum sciences

November 20, 2025

A screenshot of a geographic information system application showing streets and schools.

Mapping a new frontier with AI-integrated geographic information systems

November 06, 2025

an illustration of a planet and a star

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

October 23, 2025

Students stand at their research posters with symposium attendees.

ICDS Symposium spotlights student, faculty research

October 22, 2025

A child sits at a table with one of the sample meals used in the study and looks at a research assistant prior to eating.

Counting bites with AI might one day help prevent childhood obesity

October 15, 2025

Hands type on a computer with brain technology scan in blue.

New seed grant program accepting proposals for multi-disciplinary research

October 07, 2025

An aerial view of the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980.

New tool helps forecast volcano slope collapses and tsunamis

October 03, 2025

Guido Cervone, Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences director, stands at a podium to give welcome remarks at last year's ICDS Symposium.

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium scheduled for Oct. 6

September 15, 2025

Artist’s impression of a black hole star

Mysterious ‘red dots’ in early universe may be ‘black hole star’ atmospheres

September 12, 2025

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