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RESEARCH
ROBOTICS
24 Call of the wild: Advancing robotics with help from the natural world
BATTERIES
26 Building a better battery
27 Faster recharging batteries
27 New polymer aids lithium ion batteries
HEALTH
28 Decreasing complications of catheter procedures
29 Exploring link between pollution and neurological disease
29 Unlocking the PTSD puzzle ENVIRONMENT
30 Studying the impacts of Alaska’s eroding coastline
31 Optimizing detention basins
31 Expedition explores ocean carbon
dioxide
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MAKING AN IMPACT
32 Find out more ways Penn State engineers are making a positive difference in society
STUDENTS
34 Soundtracks on the side
35 Engineers Without Borders partners with Namutamba community in Uganda
36 Penn State team places first in Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition
36 Architectural engineering students secure historic win
37 Student chapter wins fourth consecutive national industrial engineering award
38 Artificial heart lab demonstrates the impact of undergraduate research
39 Penn State takes first and second place in international image- dehazing challenge
39 Penn State Society of Women Engineers wins top prize for sixth consecutive year
ALUMNI
40 Penn State engineering alumnus, benefactor remembered
40 Nuclear engineering alumnus receives Alumni Fellow Award
41 Isett Professorship to advance civil and environmental engineering
41 Civil engineering alumnus who helped create Nittany Lion Shrine also accomplished WWII veteran
42 Penn State alumnus leads effort to restore the Chesapeake
42 Engineering alumnus’ decades- old work has stood the test of time
43 From your president