Pennsylvania State University

2025–2026 · grant · PROJECT GRANT (B)

CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS IN DISCRIMINATION OF RARE EARTHS BY LANMODULINS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES

Pennsylvania State University · funded by Office of Science

$636k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Automated Feedback in Undergraduate Computing Theory Courses: A Multi-Institutional Study

Frantisek Marko · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$115.4kTeaching and Learning Programming

2025–2027 · research · Public Impact Projects

Spirits of Sovereignty: The Whiskey Rebellion and the Shaping of a Nation

Mindy Mcmahon · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$200k

2025–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

CIRC: Planning-C: Accelerating LLM Safety Research with Self-Evolving Evaluation Infrastructure

Lu Lin · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$100k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Using Nonlinear Light Scattering to Unravel the Chemical Effects in Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy

Lasse Jensen · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$271.4kGold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications

2025–2026 · training · Predoctoral Fellowship

Molecular Imaging of Traumatic Brain Injury using Dual Ligand K-edge Nanoprobe and Spectral Photon Counting CT

Nivetha Gunaseelan · Pennsylvania State University · funded by American Heart Association

$69.5kAdvanced X-ray and CT Imaging

2025–2029 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: DMREF: NSF-DFG: Atoms-to-Device Closed-Loop Predictive Design of Electro-Optic Materials for Quantum Photonic Circuits

Venkatraman Gopalan · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$1.5M

2025–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Conference: Beyond Uniform Hyperbolicity

Jairo Da Silva Bochi · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$40k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Laboratory Studies of Ice Vapor Growth in Static and Changing Environments

Jerry Harrington · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$798.2kAtmospheric aerosols and clouds

2025–2028 · grant · Continuing Grant

Exploring non-equilibrium Andreev modes in graphene Josephson junctions

Morteza Kayyalha · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$177.8k

2025–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

I-Corps: Translation Potential of Cold Atmospheric Plasma to Accelerate Wound Healing

Sean Knecht · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$50k

2025–2027 · grant · PROJECT GRANT (B)

DISCOVERING A CONTROLLED MECHANISM TO PATTERN ANTISITE DEFECT QUBITS IN CVD-GROWN MONOLAYER TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES

Pennsylvania State University · funded by Office of Science

$800k

2025 · grant · Science

Directed Transformation of an Endosymbiont

Pennsylvania State University · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$1.4M

2025–2028 · grant · Global Development|Global Growth & Opportunity

Penn State - To accelerate bovine tuberculosis control by scaling and commercializing breakthrough diagnostics and vaccination technologies

Pennsylvania State University · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$4.5MTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

2025–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

IUCRC Planning Grant Penn State University: Center for Research in Emerging Sustainable Space Technologies (CRES2T)

Puneet Singla · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$20k

2025–2029 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Securing LLMs against Prompt Injection Attacks

Jinyuan Jia · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$180kWeb Application Security Vulnerabilities

2025–2027 · training · Undergraduate Fellowship

Penn State Hershey Undergraduate Student Fellowship Program in Cardiovascular Disease

Christopher Yengo · Pennsylvania State University · funded by American Heart Association

$165k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Developing kinetic 3D computational models of bipedal walking

Nicholas Holowka · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$126.8k

2025–2029 · grant · Standard Grant

EDGE FGT: Universal viral-based systems to accelerate gene editing research across the taxonomic range of arthropods

Jason Rasgon · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$2.2M

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: EPIIC: Building Relationships in Innovation and Development for Growth in Emerging Technologies (BRIDGE-TECH)

Sharareh Kermanshachi · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$400k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Motion in action: Integrating multisensory inputs for posture stabilization and complex action acquisition

Tarkeshwar Singh · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$489.1kMotor Control and Adaptation

2025 · prize · Blavatnik National Award - Faculty Finalist

2025 Blavatnik National Award Finalist - Faculty - Joseph Cotruvo, Jr.

Joseph Cotruvo, · Pennsylvania State University · funded by Blavatnik Family Foundation

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Causal and Structural Inference for Heterogeneous Network Interference

Yubai Yuan · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$155.6k

2025–2027 · training · Predoctoral Fellowship

Interplay of myocardial infarction, inflammation and clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminant potential in aged female rats

Junyao Yuan · Pennsylvania State University · funded by American Heart Association

$69.5k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Cybersecurity Training and Curriculum Design for Large Language Model Research Workforce

Jinyuan Jia · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$250k

2025–2030 · grant · Standard Grant

CAREER: Intelligent Products for Mass Individualization in Manufacturing Systems

Ilya Kovalenko · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$688.6k

2025–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Travel Support for 28th International European Scientific Association for Material FORMing - ESAFORM 2025 Conference; Paestum, Italy; 7-9 May 2025

Ihab Ragai · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$30k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Teaching the Design of Data Visualization using Artificial Intelligence

Benjamin Lear · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$385.8k

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Engineering spatiotemporal temperature control of solvated noble-metal nanoparticles through the understanding of solid-water nanoscale conduction

Bladimir Ramos Alvarado · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$365.5k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: NSF-SNSF: Tail-robust Analysis of High-dimensional Nonstationary Time Series

Runze Li · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$175k

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Belief Systems Governing Climate Adaptation Behaviors: Inference, Analysis, and Intervention

Bruce Desmarais · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$148.5k

2025–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

SCC-CIVIC-FA Track A: Resilient Arctic Innovations for Sustainable Communities in Extreme Environments (RAISE)

Ming Xiao · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$700k

2025–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Plasmonic Cavity Nanostructures to Boost Single Photon Emission from Multilayered Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Abdelghani Laraoui · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$300k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: FDT-BioTech: Advancing Alzheimer's Disease Understanding and Treatments through Digital Twin Modeling

Wenrui Hao · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$675k

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Advancing Understanding and Prediction of the Entrainment Zone and Convective Boundary Layer Using Dual-Polarization Radar Observations

David Stensrud · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$699.8kMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations

2025–2027 · grant · PROJECT GRANT (B)

INTEGRATION OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTS AND PHYSICS-INFORMED MACHINE LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND IRRADIATION-INDUCED SWELLING IN METALLIC GLASS

Pennsylvania State University · funded by Office of Science

$875k

2025–2029 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: RESEARCH-PGR: Deconstructing Plasticity in Perennial Plants: Genomic and Epigenomic Architecture of Scion and Rootstock Traits in Grafted Grapevines

Misha Kwasniewski · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$606kHorticultural and Viticultural Research

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Modular injectable hydrogel designs based on mixed-shell polymeric micelles with thermosensitive patchy domains

Urara Hasegawa · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$424.4k

2025 · grant · Medical Research

The neural mechanism of nightmares

Patrick Drew · Pennsylvania State University · funded by W. M. Keck Foundation

$1.2M

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Singular and Ill-Posed Problems for Partial Differential Equations in Continuum Mechanics

Anna Mazzucato · Pennsylvania State University · funded by National Science Foundation

$250k