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After a year and a half of construction, Penn State opened a new parking deck on west campus on Monday morning. The West Deck, located along White Course Drive between the Earth and Engineering Sciences Building and White Course Apartments, is open for both permit holders and visitors. Permit holders can check if they’re applicable here, while visitor parking is available for $1 an hour with a $12 maximum daily fee. The six-level parking deck holds 1,651 parking spaces and is the largest par...

Construction projects on tap at University Park this summer The Office of Physical Plant updates an interactive construction map identifying construction projects across campus and the Campus Visitor Map also offers capital project construction information.Image: Patrick Mansell Construction projects on tap at University Park this summer May 10, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As students head home for the summer, Penn State’s Office of Physical Plant (OPP) will turn its attention to a wide ran...

Plans for a new, $228 million Penn State College of Engineering building on West Campus are moving forward following a recommendation for approval on Thursday by a university’s Board of Trustees Committee on Finance Business and Capital Planning. The full board will vote on approving the plans and authorizing the funds during its meeting on Friday. At 290,000 square feet, Engineering Research and Teaching Space 1, also known as West 1, will be Penn State’s largest academic facility. West 1,...

Penn State set to approve $228M engineering building, the first part of a West Campus revitalization Updated 10:32 PM; Penn State is inching closer to spending $228 million on the construction of West 1, a new engineering building that would become one of the largest academic facilities on the University Park campus. The board of trustees’ Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning unanimously voted to recommend approving the move to the full board, which is expected to formally OK ...

Penn State’s Board of Trustees met Friday to unanimously approve plans for and authorize the use of funds to construct a new College of Engineering building on the west side of campus. The building, known as Engineering Research and Teaching Space 1 or West 1, will span 290,000 square feet, easily making it the largest academic facility on campus. It will be located just off of White Course Drive north of the Earth and Engineering Sciences. The facility’s $228 million construction is part o...

Credit: Neil Bruce A grass commonly used to fight soil erosion has been genetically modified to successfully remove toxic chemicals left in the ground from munitions that are dangerous to human health, new research shows. The study - led by the University of York- demonstrates that genetically modified switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) can detoxify residues of the military explosive, RDX, left behind on live-fire training ranges, munitions dumps and minefields. RDX has been a major component of m...

Published April 29, 2021, 10:22 AM Eight Filipino scientists have made it to Asian Scientist Magazine’s list of most outstanding researchers in Asia. According to Singapore-based magazine, “the Asian Scientist 100 list celebrates the success of the region’s best and brightest, highlighting their achievements across a range of scientific disciplines.” To be acknowledged on the Asian Scientist 100 list, the honouree must have received a national or international prize in the preceding yea...

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These Countries Did Well With Covid. So Why Are They Slow on Vaccines? Japan, South Korea and Australia have inoculated tiny percentages of their populations. The delays risk unwinding their relative successes. Older people receiving Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine this week in Gwangju, South Korea.Credit...Yonhap/EPA, via Shutterstock April 17, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET All through last year, as first Europe and then the United States suffered catastrophically high coronavirus infections and deaths, Paci...

Florida State University News FSU employees complete Advance Leadership Development Program April 16, 2021 | 3:31 pm | SHARE: The Advance Leadership Development Program (ALDP) at Florida State University announced its class of 2020-21 graduates Friday. The eight-month, cohort-based professional development program wrapped up on April 2, 2021 with a group comprised of 25 faculty and staff members.   ALDP is sponsored by the Office of Human Resources and is a training certifica...