Science and Technology

Rail Transportation Engineering students and faculty pose with a Penn State-branded locomotive

$6.87M grant to fund railroad research center at Penn State

The funding will establish the Rail Center for Research Enhancing Short-line Transportation (Rail CREST), an initiative aimed at developing and deploying affordable technologies to improve the safety, efficiency, reliability and sustainability of short line and regional railroads. Two Penn State Altoona faculty members will lead the national project.
A spotlight

Penn State Altoona lecture to feature physics professor and student researcher

Penn State Altoona’s Spotlight on Teaching and Research lecture series continues with a presentation by Professor of Physics Kofi Adu and mathematics student Philip Chamberlin. The pair will present their research, "Estimating Bandgap Energy of Nanoarchitectured Nonconforming Heterostructures for Solar Cell Application," at 12:05 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, in the Fireside Lounge of the Slep Student Center.