UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Jan. 22 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * '50 Forward: Beethoven's Ninth Revisited' to conclude Eisenhower's 50th anniversary UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Soon-to-be-announced members of the Penn State choral community will join in song for "50 Forward: Beethoven's Ninth Revisited" to conclude Eisenhower Auditorium's 50th anniversary season. The Penn State artists will relive opening night of the Center for the Performing Arts' home ba  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Jan. 21 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Biosensing platform simultaneously detects vitamin C and SARS-CoV-2 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In the COVID-19 pandemic era, at-home, portable tests were crucial for knowing when to wear a mask or isolate at home. Now, Penn State engineering researchers have developed a portable and wireless device to simultaneously detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and vitamin C, a critical   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- The Geological Society of America issued the following news release: The Geological Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the release of the newest book in the Roadside Geology series, Roadside Geology of Arizona: Second Edition. This is the first book GSA has published since acquiring the Roadside Geology, Geology Rocks!, and Geology Underfoot series from Mountain Press Publishing Company. With this colorful book as your guide, you will   more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Jan. 21 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Getting over the hump to improve fuel cell manufacturing UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Fuel cells offer a form of clean energy across many sectors and are of particular interest in vehicles, where they produce no emissions. The production of fuel cells requires the use of a rapid laser welding process; however, welding at too high a speed results in humping, marked by surface irregularities on t  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: * * * Governors Express Concern Regarding PJM Capacity Auctions Washington, D.C. \- Today, Governors Pritzker (IL), Moore (MD), Murphy (NJ), and former Governor Hall-Long (DE) sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) expressing support for the concerns that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro raised with the country's largest regional grid operator last month. Governors Mur  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 23 (TNSjou) -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy can progress slower and cause less impairment of cognitive functions than other types of dementia * * * New guidelines will help doctors identify patients with a common memory-loss syndrome that is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease in older adults. The diagnostic criteria for limbic-  more

HERSHEY, Pennsylvania, Jan. 22 -- Penn State Health issued the following news: Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has been recognized by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as a Surgical Quality Partner through participation in the organization's Commission on Cancer. The ACS Commission on Cancer is a group of professional organizations dedicated to improving survival and quality of life for patients with cancer by setting high standards of care standards. "We are proud to   more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Jan. 21 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Penn State leaders voice support for performance-based funding at campus hearing UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania General Assembly's Performance-Based Funding Council held its first statutorily required on-campus hearing at Penn State's University Park campus on Jan. 21 as part of its charge to develop a new performance-based funding model for Pennsylvania's state-related universit  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Jan. 21 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Photo contest: Share your best picture of winter at Penn State Penn State Today is holding a photo contest for winter images on a University campus. The contest is open to students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and local community members from all Penn State locations. Our team will announce the winning photo and the top images will be featured on Penn State Today, Penn State News and o  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Jan. 23 (TNSjou) -- The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering issued the following news on Jan. 22, 2025: * * * Pitt and CMU engineers use BCI technology to find out how neural activity changes over time * * * Understanding how the 100 trillion neural pathways in the brain function is the key to both treatment of disease and advancing artificial intelligence. Thanks to advances in brain-computer interfaces (BCI), researchers at the University of Pit  more

BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, Jan. 22 -- Bryn Mawr College issued the following news: * * * Positioning Project Lights the Way for Bryn Mawr's Look and Language Bryn Mawr has completed its first-ever comprehensive Institutional Positioning project, which unifies how the College presents its key qualities, values, and personality to our community, prospective students, and the wider world through both words and visual design. Launched in the fall of 2023, this project was led by the College's Off  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Jan. 22 -- The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute issued the following news release: Each year the President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition identifies and rewards the best cyber professionals in the federal, executive-branch workforce. Since the first event in 2019, the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) CERT Division has helped the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) create and update the competition's platform, challenges, and inf  more

GREENVILLE, Pennsylvania, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- Thiel College issued the following news release: Thiel College Professor of English and Department Chair Jared Johnson, Ph.D. recently spoke at the 47th Annual Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. The conference, titled "Shakespeare and the Mind," featured national and international speakers on a wide range of Shakespeare-related issues, including teaching, adaptation, psychoanalysis, and cognitive literary studies. Johnson's paper, entitled "'Rede  more