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Research at Penn State

Penn State’s research expenditures in fiscal 2009 reached a record $765 million, a 6.7 percent increase over the previous year and a 74 percent increase since fiscal 2000. Funding from federal agencies accounts for $445 million, and has grown 95 percent since fiscal 2000. Federal dollars came from a wide variety of agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, and National Science Foundation. Despite a small reduction in industry-sponsored research over the last year attributable to the economic downturn, Penn State continues to rank third nationally in this important category. You may download the 2009 Annual Report of Research Activity here.

   
   
   

Examples of Undergraduate Research at Penn State York Over the Years

Students are provided with a wide array of research opportunities with world-class faculty. Opportunities are available within the fields of ecology, biology, chemistry, communication arts and sciences, engineering, physics, information technology, and psychology

Biology: Dr. Robert Farrell

Ryan Rupert, a junior in the science program at Penn State York, has been working with Dr. Farrell this semester exploring variations in microbial communities in a local pond and adjacent feeder stream (Mill Creek). This is particularly interesting and important work because Mill Creek is the site of a former fabric dyeing factory. The expulsion of chemical pollutants from the factory may have had a long-term negative impact on the environment. This on-going research is continuation of a project that was initiated in the summer of 2002. The late Dr. Carol Dorworth has also participated in this investigation.

Chemistry: Dr. Ernest Harrison

A student is working with Dr. Harrison on a chemistry project investigating the effects of light (sun lamp) on a particular class of organic molecules

Engineering: Dr. Charles Gaston

James Mattern is working under Dr. Gaston's supervision to create applications for engineering using LabView. LabView is a graphical programming language that handles real or simulated analog and digital inputs and outputs, and has a very broad range of options for manipulating and displaying data. It is widely used in industry.

Physics: Dr. Abul Hasan

Patrick Walters is taking a special topics class in physics with Dr. Hasan. They are working on Monte Carlo simulation of proton, antiproton annihilation leading to three pions production. This is essentially simulating Fermilab data that was taken from experiment E760 for neutral final products in proton, antiproton annihilation.

Physics: Kip Trout

Amanda Clark has been working with Mr. Trout since the summer investigating the thermal conduction process in an ideal gas in a reference frame moving at relativistic velocities. Ultimately they are trying to determine how the cooking time of food cooked in a relativistic reference frame will differ from the cooking time of the same food in a reference frame that is at rest when both times are measured from the rest frame. The approach to the problem is to model the gas using a revised kinetic theory of gas model that accounts for relativistic effects.

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 


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