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New decontamination protocol permits reuse of N95 respirators
N95 masks in fume hood

A new protocol uses aerosolized hydrogen peroxide to decontaminate N95 respirators for reuse.

Iron deficiency in corals?
symbiodinium cells under microscope

When iron is limited, the microalgae that live within coral cells change how they take in other trace metals.

Joyce Jose awarded funding to search for antiviral and vaccine targets in SARS-Cov-2
Joyce Jose
Seed grants jump-start 47 interdisciplinary teams to conduct COVID-19 research
illustration of SARS-CoV-2 virus

The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has awarded $2.25 million to 47 teams of researchers to study COVID-19.

Connecting the dots
The INSIGHT team—including (clockwise from bottom left) Matthew Reimherr, Francesca Chiaromonte, Sarah Craig, Ana Kenney, and others—meets weekly to discuss exciting results as well as new challenges that their data present. Credit: Nate Follmer.
Making a difference
Sarah Craig.
Students discover the CURE
Students annotate genes collected by earlier CURE cohorts. Here Greg Broussard (right) works with a first-year student to properly annotate a phage sequence.
Two Penn State undergraduates win Goldwater Scholarships
Swope and colleagues with poster

Two undergraduates, including one majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, were named 2020 Goldwater Scholars.

Shaw named recipient of 2020 Eric A. Walker Award
Marlisa Shaw

Marlisa Shaw, a senior double-majoring in biology and psychology, has been named the 2020 recipient of the Eric A. Walker Award.

Bryant honored with Kettering Award for excellence in photosynthesis research
Don Bryant

Donald Bryant has been selected to receive the Kettering Award by the American Society of Plant Biologists.

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