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Summer Workshop Improves Elementary Teachers' Mathematical Fluency 22 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
When teachers find gaps in their mathematical understanding, such as why a procedure is done a certain way, they have few resources to correct misunderstandings or broaden their knowledge. For examp...
Protein Changes Linked to Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease 19 Aug 2013 | 05:53 pm
This image of a human brain is an example of the kinds of brain scans that are used in some neuroscience research studies. Credit: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, D...
Short-Term Gene-Expression "Memory" is Inherited in Proteins Associated with DNA, New Research Finds 7 Aug 2013 | 06:17 pm
Three fluorescent images of yeast cells as they grow from two single cells (left) to a small cell cluster (right). The green color represents the expression of the HO gene. The red color at the bud ne...
Arctic Sea-Ice Loss Has Widespread Effects on Wildlife 1 Aug 2013 | 11:44 pm
Click on any of the images for high-resolution file. More images are available at the bottom of this page. Arctic fox. Credit: Jeff Kerby, Eric Post lab, Penn State University With sea ice at its lo...
New Effort to Learn How Our Galaxy Formed Makes Public Release of Its First Data 31 Jul 2013 | 11:28 pm
Click on image for high-resolution file. Infrared spectra of two stars, shown in the context of the Milky Way galaxy. The map shows an infrared view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth. Green circles...
Three Penn State Researchers Receive Inaugural Grants from Charles Kaufman Foundation 26 Jul 2013 | 08:35 pm
Three Penn State researchers are among the inaugural winners of $1.6 million in scientific grants from the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation, the organization announced on July 25. A total of eight grant...
$600K NSF S-STEM Grant to Fund New Scholarship Program in Science 17 Jul 2013 | 11:36 pm
The Eberly College of Science at Penn State has recently been awarded a $600,000 grant from the Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program of the National Scienc...
Infectious Disease Research Gets a Boost from Websites, Blogs, and Social Media 2 Jul 2013 | 12:42 am
Marcel Salathé will publish an article describing a new field of research known as digital epidemiology. This field is of increasing importance for tracking outbreaks of infectious diseases such as th...
Penn State Science Research Faculty Participate in a Workshop Aimed to Improve Science Education 29 Jun 2013 | 12:34 am
Inorganic chemistry is one of the broadest areas of chemistry, yet one that is difficult to teach due to its heavy specialization into sub disciplines. Faculty members of Penn State’s Department of Ch...
Nanoparticle Opens the Door to Clean-Energy Alternatives 13 Jun 2013 | 10:10 pm
Cheaper clean-energy technologies could be made possible thanks to a new discovery. Led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, research team members have found that an i...
