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The Penn State Lunar Lion is a team within the Applied Research Laboratory as part of the Space Systems Initiative which has joined the Google Lunar X Prize. The team is expected to build a robotic spacecraft that is four feet in diameter and weighs 500 pounds.
The Center for Science and the Schools (CSATS) is a center housed in the College of Education that aims to strengthen science education throughout Pennsylvania. CSATS links Penn State researchers to K-12 schools and helps them to develop and test teaching strategies that will improve education in the sciences.
This reactor is the oldest operating in the nation and has undergone numerous power upgrades, renovations, and other changes. The reactor serves the research purposes of the Penn State Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering as well as researchers from industry and other universities. Its total licensed thermal output is 1.1 MW ...
According to the latest United States National Research Council rankings (1995), The Department of Geography is ranked number one in the United States. [3] The U.S. News Best Graduate Schools 2007 ranked the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Meteorology graduate program number one in the US.
Established in 1956, it is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system. Penn State University Press publishes books and journals of interest to scholars and general audiences. As a part of a land-grant university with a mandate to serve the citizens of the ...
The university's trustees designated the area for a research park in 1989. [1] Initially known as the Penn State Research Park [2] [3] and opened in 1994, its stated mission was to be the "place where collaboration between the University and private sector companies can grow," [4] and to facilitate the transfer of University-based knowledge "to the market place and to foster economic ...
In 2009, Hayes was hired at Pennsylvania State University as their first tenure-track faculty member in Sensory & Consumer Science, and he became director of their Sensory Evaluation Center. [3] While directing the center, Hayes led various studies which focused on using psychophysics to study chemosensation, genetics, food choice and the ...
Deborah F. Kelly is an American biomedical engineer who is a professor at Pennsylvania State University. Her research makes use of cryogenic electron microscopy to better understand human development and disease. She was elected President of the Microscopy Society of America in 2022. [1]