UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * 'Missions with Monty' advances science literacy through game-based learning UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- " Missions with Monty," an international science literacy project developed by a faculty member in the Penn State College of Education and colleagues at North Carolina State University, received a $600,000 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation to increase science literacy and reading c  more

MEADVILLE, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- Allegheny College issued the following news: * * * Allegheny College Professor's Ornithology Studies Draw National Attention Dr. Jennifer Houtz has had a passion for ornithology since she started college, and it is taking flight now as her research makes its way into national publications, including the New York Times, Newsweek, and Nature Research Highlights. Houtz, an assistant professor of biology at Allegheny College, co-authored a paper, "The Evoluti  more

ALTOONA, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- Pennsylvania State University at Altoona issued the following news: * * * Altoona research lab sweeps state criminal justice research competition ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Penn State Altoona's Integrated Social Science Research Lab (ISSRL) swept the undergraduate research poster competition at the 2025 Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice Educators conference (PACJE). The conference was held April 4-5 at DeSales University in Center Valley. This is the seco  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: * * * Do 'Harm Reduction' Interventions for Substance Use Lower or Raise Trust in Government? "Harm reduction" interventions for substance use - measures like needle exchange programs and methadone distribution that aim to reduce the adverse effects of substance use, rather than punish or prevent it - have been repeatedly shown to lower the risk of ov  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Book by Penn State instructional design experts receives national award UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The book that two Penn State instructional design experts wrote as a guide for designing online courses has received an award from one of the country's leading higher education organizations. The book, "High-Impact Design for Online Courses: Blueprinting Quality Digital Learning in Eight Prac  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following news: * * * Engineering Beneath the Surface Students build an autonomous underwater vehicle that can perform tasks important to the maritime industry, including exploring, detecting, and manipulating objects and deploying projectiles underwater. By Sherry Stokes Sitting at the edge of the pool, the Kingfisher, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) at Carnegie Mellon University, looks more like something f  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following news: * * * Precision Scale KATRIN Sets Record For Measuring Neutrino Mass By Joachim Hoffman The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), which includes researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, has surpassed its own achievements. The latest data, recently published in Science, establish an upper limit of 8 x 10-37 kg (or in scientific   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following news: * * * CMU Study Shows Large Language Models Have Distinctive Styles LLMs can be distinguished by word choice, level of detail and more By Byron Spice It's not unusual for people to have distinctive speech or writing styles. They can favor certain words and phrases or structure a sentence or a story uniquely. It turns out that text-generating AI models have similar idiosyncrasies. In a recent study,  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Feeling salty? Increased salt stress reduces tomato pest activity UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Increased soil salinity can reduce damage from prominent tomato pests such as the tomato fruitworm, according to researchers at Penn State. They published their findings in the Journal of Plant, Cell and Environment. The team, comprising entomologists from the College of Agricultural Sciences, foun  more

HOLLAND, Michigan, April 16 -- Hope College issued the following news: * * * Students Present Research at National Conference A total of 13 Hope College students presented their collaborative faculty-student research during this year's National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), held on Monday-Wednesday, April 7-9, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. NCUR is the largest undergraduate research conference in the country, and each year brings together thousands of undergraduate students from  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Immune system proteins involved in severe parasitic disease identified UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis -- a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm -- have been revealed by researchers at Penn State. The study -- which took place in mice and was published in PLOS Path  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Let's hear a 'We Are!' for these Penn Staters -- April 15 As part of our regular "We Are!" feature, we recognize 17 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what's asked of them in their work at the University. This week, on behalf of the entire Penn State community, we'd like to say thank you to: * Joe Bauman, teaching professor of Spanish and director of undergraduate studies fo  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Materials Research Institute announces 2025 seed grant recipients UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Materials Research Institute (MRI) at Penn State has announced the recipients of the 2025 Interdisciplinary Seed Grants and Transdisciplinary Teaming Initiative awards, designed to support collaborative, high-risk research with the potential for significant societal and technological impact. Th  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on April 15, 2025: * * * Shapiro Administration Makes More Than $1 Billion Available for Property Tax Relief for Homeowners Across Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro's Office of the Budget certifies $1.025 billion -- a record amount -- available to cut property taxes for millions of Pennsylvanians for at least the next five years. As a result, since Governor Shapiro took office, eligible hom  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry issued the following news on April 15, 2025: * * * Shapiro Administration Highlights $5 Million Proposed Investment to Help People with Disabilities Find, Retain Employment at 2025 Autism Awareness & Acceptance Walk The annual event at the Hiram G. Andrews Center (HGAC) raises awareness about autism and showcases the facility's offerings of post-secondary education, pre- employment transition, and support   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Transforming Immunotherapy Design Pitt's Natasa Miskov-Zivanov receives CAREER Award for developing a system to design new cancer immunotherapies The University of Pittsburgh's Natasa Miskov-Zivanov, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award of $581,503 from the National S  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Q&A: What makes an 'accidental dictator' in the workplace? UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The professional world has no shortage of micromanagers -- or, as Penn State School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER) faculty members Craig L. Pearce and Hee Man Park like to call them, "accidental dictators." But leaders don't have to fall into that trap, according to an article published in the jo  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Students advocate for increased state funding during Capital Day in Harrisburg UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Each year on Capital Day, more than 200 Penn State students from across the commonwealth gather in the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg to advocate for vital state funding that benefits all Penn State students. This year, students met with a record number of elected leaders and  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * Fine art and design using artificial intelligence Second-year student Jessica Mach discovers the potential of AI tools through creating several projects, including an interactive game. In a story that second-year Jessica Mach created for a design course, an origami-like paper crane flies out a bedroom window and travels to meet other paper animals throughout th  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * Marcia Chatelain and Matthew Levendusky named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows Both in the School of Arts & Sciences, they are among the 198 chosen for the Guggenheim's 100th class of Fellows. Marcia Chatelain of the Department of Africana Studies and Matthew Levendusky of the Department of Political Science in the School of Arts & Sciences have been named 2025 John Sim  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice issued the following news: * * * The intersection of storytelling and social work A new book edited by School of Social Policy & Practice professor Jacqueline Corcoran highlights the day-to-day reality of social work through social workers detailing their experiences in the style of creative nonfiction. Seeking a fresh approach to prepare social work students for their careers, Profess  more

YORK, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- York College of Pennsylvania issued the following news: * * * York College Breaks Ground on Major Expansion of Northside Commons York College celebrated a significant milestone on April 15 with the groundbreaking of a major expansion to Northside Commons, a residence hall that has been central to student life since it opened in 2011. The new project will add 204 beds and a range of modern amenities designed to enhance the on-campus living experience. Among th  more