Graduate Student Newsletter

Buckley to present SAGF Lecture October 29

Yvonne Buckley, professor of zoology at Trinity College Dublin, will present the fall 2019 Science Achievement Graduate Fellows (SAGF) Lecture on Tuesday, October 29, at 3:30 p.m. in Berg Auditorium (100 Huck Life Sciences Building) on the Penn State University Park campus. This free public lecture, titled "The biogeography of plant and animal populations" will be preceded by a public reception at 3:00 p.m. in the auditorium lobby and is sponsored by the Department of Biology and the Penn State Eberly College of Science.

NSF GRFP Broader Impact Workshop November 4

Are you considering the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program? The GRFP proposal requires applicants to emphasize ability to contribute to broader society and their specific field of research. To integrate Broader Impacts into your education and research plans, RSVP for the GRFP Workshop.

I AM STEM Speaking Competition

The third annual edition of the I AM STEM speaking contest is here! Designed to help Penn State Science students develop and share their stories so that they can inspire other burgeoning STEM minds.

Extend your research beyond the publication

• Can your research be applied in practical ways to solve real-world problems?
• Have you invented a new & useful:
  • method or process?  (e.g., computational process, process of manufacture)
  • material?  (e.g., chemical compound, functional protein)
  • research tool?  (e.g., cell line, animal model)
• Do you believe your results could be of value to others – including industry or other researchers?

Penn State has resources to help inventors protect and translate research in ways alternative to (but not in conflict with) academic publication.  Visit the IP Navigator to review emerging technologies being developed in the Eberly College of Science.  For further discussion contact Beth Johnson (bai107@psu.edu), Intellectual Property Liaison for researchers in the Eberly College of Science.