The fair allows students to present the culmination of their work from a traditional research/creative activities experience, an internship or a course-based undergraduate research experience.
The funding will establish the Rail Center for Research Enhancing Short-line Transportation (Rail CREST), an initiative aimed at developing and deploying affordable technologies to improve the safety, efficiency, reliability and sustainability of short line and regional railroads. Two Penn State Altoona faculty members will lead the national project.
A paper written by William Van der Sluys, assistant teaching professor of chemistry at Penn State Altoona, has been published in “Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry.”
Penn State Altoona students Eva Gates and Rachel Desulme and faculty members Lara La Dage and Kofi Adu are among a group conducting research on dragonflies in Ghana, Africa, this summer.
Penn State Altoona cybersecurity student Hans Esteban presented his research project on rogue artificial intelligence at the Pennsylvania Capitol on March 19 as part of the Undergraduate Research at the Capitol Pennsylvania Poster Conference.
Penn State Altoona’s Spotlight on Teaching and Research lecture series continues with a presentation by Professor of Physics Kofi Adu and mathematics student Philip Chamberlin. The pair will present their research, "Estimating Bandgap Energy of Nanoarchitectured Nonconforming Heterostructures for Solar Cell Application," at 12:05 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, in the Fireside Lounge of the Slep Student Center.
As early as 18,000 years ago, humans in New Guinea may have collected cassowary eggs near maturity and then raised the birds to adulthood, according to an international team of scientists.
Carolyn Mahan, professor of biology and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, has been awarded a grant from the nonprofit Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund for the expansion of her study on how plants and animals respond to right-of-way management.
Penn State Altoona's Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Christopher Martin is researching new, more efficient ways to monitor the oxyfuel cutting process.
Jungwoo Ryoo, Syed Rizvi, and Brooke Long-Yarrison have received a $50,000 grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania to research cyber security preparations for municipalities in the Commonwealth.
