On December 3, dozens of experts from across the country met at the Penn Stater for the first Penn State Symposium on Election Security. The event was cohosted by the College of Engineering, Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs, as well as the Penn State Institute for Networking and Security Research and the Institute for CyberScience.
The Symposium allowed for experts from disciplines as diverse as public policy and cybersecurity to collaborate on solutions to election security threats.>>
JANUARY 2019
FEATURES
Micropores let oxygen and nutrients inside biofabricated tissues
Micropores in fabricated tissues such as bone and cartilage allow nutrient and oxygen diffusion into the core, and this novel approach may eventually allow lab-grown tissue to contain blood vessels, according to a team of Penn State researchers.>>
Crashes increase when speed limits dip far below engineering recommendation
Speed limits set only five miles per hour below engineering recommendations produce a statistically significant decrease in total, fatal and injury crashes, and property-damage-only crashes, according to a group of Penn State researchers. Larger differences between the posted and engineering-recommended speed-limit values were found to increase crash frequency and reduce speed limit compliance.>>
Process discovered that may improve cardiac treatment
A faster, more cost-efficient, and more accurate method of examining the effectiveness of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiac muscle cells has been discovered, according to researchers from Penn State.The goal is to use these cells to treat cardiac conditions.>>
Researchers receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to capture vital signs via video
Researchers in the Penn State College of Engineering and at Johns Hopkins University are working to capture vital signs of patients in resource-constrained environments with a device most Americans use every day - a cell phone camera. Funded by an initial $100,000 pilot grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, "Non-Contact Estimation of Biomarkers in Resource-Constrained Environments," uses cell phone camera and computer vision techniques to capture patients' vital signs at distances of up to four feet away - a critical distance needed for highly contagious disease like Ebola or tuberculosis.>>
Better security achieved with randomly generating biological encryption keys
Data breaches, hacked systems and hostage malware are frequently topics of evening newscasts - including stories of department store, hospital, government and bank data leaking into unsavory hands - but now a team of engineers has an encryption key approach that is unclonable and not reverse-engineerable, protecting information even as computers become faster and nimbler.>>
RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS
Jian Yang named National Academy of Inventors fellow>>
Penn State designer's firm a Young Architects Program finalist>>
Grady named inaugural Faculty Fellow of Security Center>>
Architecture faculty exhibit work at world famous museum >>
AROUND THE COLLEGE
Grant will support grain bin safety research at Penn State>>
IE faculty member works to optimize and engineer health care services>>
Panelists address diversity and inclusion at Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference>>
First World Campus degree in additive manufacturing and design awarded>>
Students see chemical engineering in action during plant visit>>
Mechanical engineering and elementary school collaboration benefits all>>
ELD and DESIGN graduate programs explored through case competition>>
Adding layers to Penn State's Nittany Lion pride: 3D Printing Club creates colorful Nittany Lion Shrine head>>
Gwendy Bilger joins Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute as new energy data analyst>>
