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College of Engineering names student marshals for spring 2025 commencement

5/6/2025

The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2025 commencement ceremony, which will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, May 9, in the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park.

College of Engineering to honor 21 alumni with career achievement awards

4/24/2025

The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 21 alumni with the 2025 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award and Early Career Award in a ceremony on April 24 in the new Engineering Collaborative Research and Education (ECoRE) Building.

Engineering Learning Factory to host spring project showcase

4/23/2025

The Penn State Learning Factory will host its biannual end-of-semester showcase for engineering students to present their cornerstone and capstone design projects from 1-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29, at the Bryce Jordan Center. The?virtual showcase?will take place Wednesday, April 30, through Friday, May 9.

Materials Research Institute announces 2025 seed grant recipients

4/15/2025

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.

Hayes completes 2025 Excellence in Academic Leadership program

4/11/2025

A group of 17 academic leaders from across Penn State, including Dan Hayes, head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Nanotherapeutics and Regenerative Medicine, recently completed the 2025 Excellence in Academic Leadership (EAL) program — an experience designed to strengthen leadership effectiveness and support ongoing professional growth.

Wong named fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

4/7/2025

Tak Sing Wong, professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was named a fellow by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Szczesny earns American Society of Mechanical Engineers early career award

4/1/2025

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded Spencer Szczesny, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of orthopedics and rehabilitation, the Y.C. Fung Young Early Career Award. Szczesny will receive the award and deliver a speech on tendon development and inclusive science at ASME’s Summer Bioengineering Conference on June 22-25 in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.

$2.7M NIH grant to fund next generation of synthetic blood

3/31/2025

A multi-institutional team led by Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State, recently received a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop the next generation of synthetic blood.

Biomedical engineering grad student earns American Heart Association fellowship

3/31/2025

The American Heart Association (AHA) awarded Nivetha Gunaseelan, a doctoral candidate studying biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a predoctoral fellowship.

College of Engineering welcomed 25 faculty members last year

3/27/2025

The Penn State College of Engineering has added 25 faculty members since February 2024. The four tenure-line faculty and 21 professional track faculty represent 10 units and departments.

Faculty workshop on leveraging intellectual property to be held April 2

3/24/2025

The Penn State College of Engineering’s Office of Corporate and Industry Engagement invites engineering faculty to I-CONNECT: Intellectual Property and Innovation. The event will take place virtually and on campus at 504 Engineering Collaborative Research and Education Building (ECoRE) from 12:30 – 2 p.m. ET on April 2.

Engineering Ambassadors conference connects student engineers at Penn State

3/19/2025

The Engineering Ambassadors Network recently held a three-day-long Spring Leadership Conference at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.

FDA-approved dialysis drug may help fight against antimicrobial resistance

3/18/2025

The study, conducted in mice, revealed that sevelamer can successfully remove off-target antibiotics from the gut.

Media mention: ‘New method to keep protein-based drugs stable without refrigeration’

3/14/2025

Scott Medina, the William and Wendy Korb Early Career Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, was quoted in a recent article published by the U.S. National Science Foundation. His team is researching biomedical technology that could revolutionize how vaccines and other drugs are stored.

Hee Jueng Oh honored by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

3/3/2025

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has named Hee Jueng Oh, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a Young Observer.

Penn State professors explore partnership opportunities in Kazakhstan

2/26/2025

In November of 2024, two professors from the Penn State College of Engineering — Igor Aronson, Huck Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and Slava V. Rotkin, Frontier Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and professor of physics and of biomedical engineering — visited four leading research universities in Kazakhstan to deepen and expand strategic collaborations.

MEDIA MENTION: ‘Vaccine refrigeration could become optional, thanks to Penn State team’

2/22/2025

Scott Medina, the William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professor of Biomedical Engineering, discusses the storage and financial difficulties associated with vaccine refrigeration, and how his team's research utilizing particular surfactant molecules and oil-based solutions could allow for unrefrigerated vaccine storage in an article featured on Pittsburgh’s NPR news station, 90.5 WESA.

Larry Cheng receives mid-career investigator award for achievements in biomaterials research

1/28/2025

Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, received a Mid-Career Investigator Award from the Chinese Association for Biomaterials (CAB).

NSF CAREER Award: Pursuing ‘soft’ solutions for spinal cord injuries

1/23/2025

Tao Zhou, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics and of biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $660,000 U.S. National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award to develop injectable and stretchable hydrogel electrodes to treat spinal cord injuries.

Biosensing platform simultaneously detects vitamin C, SARS-CoV-2

1/21/2025

Penn State engineering researchers have developed a portable and wireless device to simultaneously detect vitamin C and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, by integrating commercial transistors with printed laser-induced graphene.

Discovery could eliminate need to refrigerate vaccines and protein-based drugs

1/16/2025

A new storage technique can keep protein-based drugs and vaccines stable without keeping them cold. The discovery, led by researchers at Penn State, could eliminate the need for refrigeration for hundreds of life-saving medicines like insulin, monoclonal antibodies and viral vaccines.

Penn State startup tackles chronic wounds with 'Plasma Patch'

1/13/2025

Penn State startup Fourth State Therapeutics is working to commercialize a cold plasma-based technology called the Plasma Patch. Founder and recent biomedical engineering doctoral graduate Ali Kazemi developed the patch with colleagues while completing his doctorate. He said the Plasma Patch is designed with the intention to reduce infections while simultaneously accelerating the healing process by priming the wound for recovery.

Brain mechanisms underpinning loss of consciousness identified

12/10/2024

The shift from an awake state to unconsciousness is a phenomenon that has long captured the interest of scientists and philosophers alike, but how it happens has remained a mystery — until now. Through studies on rats, a team of researchers at Penn State has pinpointed the exact moment of loss of consciousness due to anesthesia, mapping what happens in different brain regions during that moment.

Keefe Manning elected American Heart Association Fellow

12/9/2024

Keefe Manning, Penn State professor of biomedical engineering with a courtesy appointment as a professor of surgery, was elected fellow of the American Heart Association by the association's stroke council.

Tracking immune cell brain cancer therapies with ultrasound

12/6/2024

With a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a team of biomedical engineering researchers will apply ultrasound imaging technology to monitor the transport of genetically engineered, cancer-fighting macrophages into brain tumors.

New bioprinting technique creates functional tissue 10x faster

12/3/2024

Three-dimensional (3D) printing isn’t just a way to produce material products quickly. It also offers researchers a way to develop replicas of human tissue that could be used to improve human health, such as building organs for transplantation, studying disease progression and screening new drugs.

Three College of Engineering researchers named 2024 Roy Award winners

12/3/2024

Six Penn State materials researchers, including three affiliated with the College of Engineering, have received the 2024 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, recognizing a wide range of research with societal impact.

$2.6M grant to advance potential stem cell-based heart disease treatment

11/26/2024

Combining stem cells and silicon nanowires in lab-grown tissue has shown promise as a step toward a new treatment for heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, according to a multi-institutional research team. The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute recently awarded the team a five-year, $2.6 million grant to move the work forward.

Q&A: How does ‘collective intelligence’ emerge among tiny robots?

11/22/2024

Microrobots are engineered entities that contain very simple electronic circuits and propulsion machinery that allows them to push or drive forward. Individually, these robots can execute simple behaviors such as forward movements. Collectively, these microrobots can work together with seemingly intelligent behaviors to respond to signals, maintain and restore a larger shape or detect threats. How does intelligent-like behavior emerge in the system of simple interacting units?

Engineering Learning Factory to host fall cornerstone, capstone project showcase

11/18/2024

The Penn State Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase at the Bryce Jordan Center on Dec. 10 and its virtual showcase Wednesday, Dec. 11 through Friday, Dec. 20. Both versions of the event are free and open to the public.

College of Engineering to raise support for student success on GivingTuesday

11/15/2024

The Penn State College of Engineering invites alumni and friends to support engineering student success through a GivingTuesday gift on Dec. 3 as Penn State celebrates its tenth GivingTuesday.

Uncharted territory: A Q&A with Nanyin Zhang on mapping brain activity

11/8/2024

A team of researchers led by Nanyin Zhang, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Brain Imaging and professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, recently published their findings about how blood flow changes to different brain regions relate to what is happening with the brain's neurons.

Electrical engineering grad student awarded best paper at international conference

10/30/2024

Aneesh Kshirsagar, an electrical engineering PhD student advised by Dr. Weihua Guan, received a Best Paper Award at the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Healthcare Innovation - Point-Of-Care Technologies Conference late last month. The paper's findings could help significantly advance virus testing by providing real-time, accurate diagnostics in settings where complex lab equipment is unavailable.

Penn State engineers featured in American Society of Mechanical Engineers article

10/28/2024

Mary Frecker, department head of mechanical engineering, Riess Chair of Engineering and director of the Penn State Center for Biodevices, recently co-authored an article featured in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Select Articles magazine. "What is mechanical engineering" features perspectives from Penn State alumni Michele Beisler and Brain Pandya on their work in the field.

New technique allows technicolor imaging of degenerative joint disease

10/25/2024

A team led by Penn State researchers brings traditional black and white diagnostic images of X-rays and traditional CT scans into technicolor. The researchers developed novel contrast agents that target two proteins implicated in osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease commonly characterized as wear-and-tear arthritis.

Celebrating 100 years of excellence in chemical engineering

10/23/2024

From the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building on Shortlidge Road to offices, labs and classrooms around the globe, nearly 10,000 alumni, 500 undergraduate and graduate students, and 45 faculty, post-doctoral candidates and staff call the Penn State Department of Chemical Engineering (CHE) home. This year, the department is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of a chemical engineering degree program at Penn State in 1924-25 and the first 11 chemical engineering bachelor’s degrees granted in May 1925.

Julianna Simon receives early career award from international society

10/23/2024

Julianna Simon, an associate professor of acoustics and biomedical engineering, was awarded a Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award by the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound in Taipei, Taiwan last month. This prestigious award recognizes and celebrates the achievements of individuals early in their careers in the field of therapeutic ultrasound.

Q&A: Can electricity treat high blood pressure?

10/11/2024

Several medications are available to treat high blood pressure, but more than 10 million Americans do not respond to the treatments. Tao Zhou, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics and of biomedical engineering at Penn State, received a five-year, $1.83 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to develop a soft and stretchable tissue-like electronic device for the treatment of resistant high blood pressure.

Spencer Szczesny named fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

10/11/2024

Spencer Szczesny, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, was recently named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Toxic protein may contribute to ALS development

10/11/2024

A toxic version of a certain protein may affect brain, spinal cord and skeletal muscle tissues differently, leading to the complex development and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a new study by a team of researchers from Penn State College of Medicine.

20 College of Engineering graduate students awarded University Fellowships

10/10/2024

The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State recognized 110 graduate students, including 20 College of Engineering students, as recipients of the 2024-2025 University Graduate Fellowships. These students were honored at a reception held in the Bryce Jordan Center on Oct. 3.

Three projects receive Huck Innovative and Transformational Seed Fund grants

9/11/2024

Three potentially high-impact, high-risk research projects have been selected to receive seed funding for the latest round of the Huck Innovative and Transformational Seed (HITS) Fund initiative.

Student startups showcase progress at Summer Founders Demo Day

8/19/2024

Invent Penn State’s?Summer Founders Program, which provides each student team with a $15,000 grant to work on their startups over the summer at?Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank, concluded with a final "Demo Day” on Aug. 7.

Julianna Simon named interim director of Graduate Program in Acoustics

8/12/2024

Julianna Simon, associate professor of acoustics and of biomedical engineering, has been named the interim director of acoustics at Penn State. Penn State News spoke with Simon hear her perspectives on the field of acoustics, the direction and goals for the Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics and Simon’s own professional background and research.

Yong Wang to use $2M NIH grant to improve human tissue repair

8/6/2024

A team of Penn State researchers led by Wang was recently awarded a four-year, $2.02 million National Institutes of Health grant to explore how to safely add growth factors to collagen used by doctors for tissue repair.

Atoms in advanced alloys find preferred neighbors when solidifying

8/5/2024

A discovery that uncovered the surprising way atoms arrange themselves and find their preferred neighbors in multi-principal element alloys could enable engineers to “tune” these unique and useful materials for enhanced performance in specific applications ranging from advanced power plants to aerospace technologies, according to the researchers who made the finding.

Re-engineering cancerous tumors to self-destruct and kill drug-resistant cells

7/4/2024

Treating cancer can sometimes feel like a game of Whac-A-Mole. The disease can become resistant to treatment, and clinicians never know when, where and what resistance might emerge, leaving them one step behind. But a team led by Penn State researchers has found a way to reprogram disease evolution and design tumors that are easier to treat.

Six engineering undergrads earn Graduate Research Fellowships

6/27/2024

Six College of Engineering baccalaureate graduates have been selected for the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP). Four engineering graduates were also named honorable mentions for the NSF-GRFP.

Self-assembling, highly conductive sensors could improve wearable devices

6/26/2024

To advance soft robotics, skin-integrated electronics and biomedical devices, researchers at Penn State have developed a 3D-printed novel material for use in sensors that is soft and stretchable — important traits for matching the properties of tissues and organs —and that self-assembles. Their approach employs a process that eliminates many of the drawbacks of previous fabrication methods, such as less conductivity or device failure.

From rock climbing to dining, students use engineering to improve accessibility

6/7/2024

A capstone course taught in the spring of 2024 focused specifically on adaptive technology, which is a device or piece of technology designed to provide physical or cognitive assistance.

Amir Sheikhi chosen to serve on NIH Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section

5/29/2024

Amir Sheikhi, assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering, was invited to serve as a member of the Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section of the Bioengineering Sciences & Technologies Integrated Review Group, which is part of the Center of Scientific Review for the National Institutes of Health.

GAP funding paves the way for research to move from lab to market

5/21/2024

Four projects were recently awarded Penn State Commercialization GAP funding. The GAP Fund, formerly known as the Fund for Innovation, aims to accelerate the development of promising research across the University by closing the funding gaps between proof-of-concept research and readiness for commercialization.

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