Research Features

Hunter Breon (left) and Richard Carey (right) participate in an exercise physiology lab.

Worth the Wait

Students and faculty reflect on the first four years of Penn State Altoona’s kinesiology program.
Nittany Lion Shrine autumn

Interdisciplinary projects awarded seed grants from IEE

The Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) has awarded seed grants to 22 groups of interdisciplinary researchers for the 2020-21 award cycle. This year, seed grants were awarded to proposals focusing on at least one of IEE’s five strategic research themes — Climate and Ecosystem Change, Health and the Environment, Integrated Energy Systems, Urban Systems, and Water and Biogeochemical Cycles.
A porcupine

Biodiversity seed grants support innovative collaborations across Penn State

Seven Penn State faculty teams have received seed grants for biodiversity research as part of the 2021 “Mainstreaming Biodiversity in a Decade of Action” symposium, developed by Christina Grozinger, Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology and director of the Center for Pollinator Research, in collaboration with Penn State’s Sustainability Institute.
People wait in line to get flu masks to avoid the spread of Spanish influenza on Montgomery Street in San Francisco in 1918

Letters from a Pandemic

Assistant Professor of History John Eicher studies survivors of the 1918 pandemic, exploring how they felt about what happened to them.