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By Sarah Small

By Maria R. Lucas

On a cold, sunny day, you’re driving on a rural road, surrounded by snow-covered fields. In an instant, your eyes process the scene, picking out individual objects to focus on — a stop sign, a barn — while the rest of the scene blurs in the periphery. Your brain stores the focused and blurred images as a memory that can be pictured in your mind later, while sitting at your desk.  

A Penn State architecture and engineering design professor whose work explores the reuse and recycling of materials to create low-carbon structures has been selected as a recipient of the national 2024 United States Artists (USA) Fellowship.

DK Osseo-Asare, associate professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School and of engineering design in the College of Engineering at Penn State, earned one of five USA Fellowships in the Architecture and Design category.

By Mariah R. Lucas

Wearable medical sensors have opened doors for remote health monitoring and treatment evaluation. But making diagnoses and treatment plans based on many datapoints — such as muscle movements, heart rate, breathing or speaking and swallowing — can be difficult for health care providers to do quickly.

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named Qiming Zhang, distinguished professor of electrical engineering in Penn State’s College of Engineering, a fellow — the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors. 

By Mariah R. Lucas

Self-propelled nanoparticles could potentially advance drug delivery and lab-on-a-chip systems — but they are prone to go rogue with random, directionless movements. Now, an international team of researchers has developed an approach to rein in the synthetic particles.