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New giving by Dave Meehl, a retired financial officer who worked at accounting firms, food companies and at Lakeshore Community Services, will provide $5 million to Penn State Behrend’s schools of engineering and science. A $3 million…

Medical imaging is no longer in Kansas, Toto, as 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…

Immunotherapies that mobilize a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer have become a treatment pillar. These therapies, including CAR T-cell therapy, have performed well in cancers like leukemias and lymphomas, but the…

A $6.5 million state grant has positioned Penn State Behrend to begin construction of the Center for Manufacturing Competitiveness, an industry-facing research facility and the centerpiece of the college’s Project RESOLVE. The grant was…

Penn State Athletics today (Aug. 21) announced a $10 million Founders’ Gift for the Beaver Stadium Revitalization project from a donor who chooses to remain anonymous. This is the second Founders Gift for the project, joining the $25…

A bottle of water sampled from a lake or river can reveal what fish, amphibians insects and bacteria are present, thanks to environmental DNA (eDNA), the genetic material shed by organisms. This way of measuring transforms…

The Pennsylvania General Assembly has passed a state budget that maintains Penn State’s general support appropriation at $242.1 million for the 2024-25 fiscal year, which began July 1. The budget package, which now heads to Gov. Josh…

When perennial Penn State benefactors Gene and Roz Chaiken made their largest-ever gift in 2021 — a gift that cemented their legacy as the largest scholarship donors in Penn State history and resulted in the naming of the Susan Welch…

Loneliness may be harmful to our daily health, according to a new study led by researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development and Center for Healthy Aging focused on understanding the subtleties of…

Five Penn State Commonwealth Campus leaders will be retiring from the University in the coming weeks and months, Penn State Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses and Executive Chancellor Margo DelliCarpini has announced. In an email…