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A list of audio and video features that illustrate the work of our researchers
- Study Shows Gulf Oil Spill Harmed Deep-sea Coral (Voice of America)
- 13 April 2012 — Penn State biologist Charles Fisher discusses his research on the impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in a radio interview with Voice of America.
- Video: Learn How Penn State Astronomer Donald Schneider Got Hooked on Research
- 14 March 2012 — In this video, Donald Schneider, head of Penn State's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, discusses what got him interested in becoming an astronomer and why he loves doing research.
- ScienceCast en Español: El caballo de Przewalski
- La especie de caballo en peligro de extinción, conocida como el caballo de Przewalski -- está mucho más lejanamente relacionada con los caballos domésticos que lo que los investigadores habían tenido previamente como hipótesis. (6 April 2012)
- ScienceCast: Origins of the Endangered Przewalski's Horse
- An endangered species of horse -- known as Przewalski's horse -- is much more distantly related to the domestic horse than researchers had previously hypothesized, reports a team of investigators led by Kateryna Makova, a Penn State University associate professor of biology. (7 November 2011)
- Penn State Science is Among the Best Programs in the United States, New National Research Council Study Shows
- 9 November 2011 — Research and education programs in the basic sciences at Penn State are among the top programs in the United States, according to a comprehensive National Research Council study, updated in the spring of 2011, titled "A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States." The study uses a broad range of measurements to rank the performance of over 5,000 graduate programs in 62 fields at 212 U.S. universities, including all the major research universities.
- Video: Nicholas Winograd at the SIMS International School
- 23 September 2011 — Penn State chemist Nicholas Winograd is interviewed about secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), the SIMS International School, and the students who attend the school.
- ScienceCast: Life History, Mutation Rates, and Male Mutation Bias
- For the first time, scientists have used large-scale DNA sequencing data to investigate a long-standing evolutionary assumption: DNA mutation rates are influenced by a set of species-specific life-history traits. The team of researchers led by Kateryna Makova, a Penn State University associate professor of biology, used whole-genome sequence data to test life-history hypotheses for 32 mammalian species, including humans. (22 September 2011)
- ScienceCast: Zombie Ants
- New research at Penn State has revealed how infection by a parasitic fungus dramatically changes the behavior of tropical carpenter ants, causing them to become zombie-like and to die at a spot that has optimal reproductive conditions for the fungus. (29 July 2011)
- Video: New Forensic Fingerprinting Approach Retrieves Elusive Prints
- 29 July 2011 — Forensics experts can't always retrieve fingerprints from objects, but a new coating process developed by Penn State professors may change that. The process reveals hard-to-develop fingerprints on nonporous surfaces without altering the chemistry of the print.
- Science Beat podcast: Ancestry of Polar Bears Traced to Ireland
- 7 July 2011
- Science Beat podcast: Scientists Sequence Endangered Tasmanian Devil's Genome
- June 2011
- Science Beat podcast: Slowing the Spread of Drug-Resistant Diseases Is the Goal of a New Research Area
- June 2011
- Science Beat podcast: Life-History Traits May Affect DNA Mutation Rates in Males More than in Females
- June 2011
- ScienceCast: IceCube Project at the South Pole
- IceCube, the world's largest observatory ever built to detect the elusive sub-atomic particles called neutrinos, has been completed in the crystal clear ice at the South Pole. (3 June 2011)
- Science Beat podcast: Largest Ever 3-D Map of the Distant Universe is Revealed
- May 2011
- Ross Hardison featured on BBC radio program
- 21 May 2011 — Penn State's Ross Hardison participates in a panel discussion about the human body on the BBC radio program, The Forum.
- ScienceCast: Flowering Plants and Ancient Gene Duplications
- The evolution and diversification of the more than 300,000 living species of flowering plants may have been "jump started" much earlier than previously calculated. According to Claude dePamphilis, a professor of biology at Penn State University and the lead author of the study, two major upheavals in the plant genome occurred hundreds of millions of years ago -- nearly 200 million years earlier than the events that other research groups had described. (12 May 2011)
- Video: Charles Fisher on the Discovery Channel
- 20 April 2011 — Penn State biologist Charles Fisher talks with the Daily Planet's Ziya Tong about his research in the Gulf of Mexico. His interview begins at the 1:30 time marker.
- Radio interview: Invasion of the zombie ants (CBC News, Canada)
- 12 March 2011 — Penn State biologist and entomologist David Hughes discusses his research on how infection by a parasitic fungus dramatically changes the behavior of tropical carpenter ants on a CBC/Radio Canada show.
- What’s So Invasive About Honeysuckle? (WPSU)
- 4 March 2011 — Listen to a radio interview with Penn State biologist Tomas Carlo, in which he talks about his research on invasive honeysuckle (3 March 2011).