News
Congratulations August Kohls for being awarded the William J. Happel Fellowship in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This award is given to support the education and research of Electrical and Computer Engineering students (Spring 2024).
Congratulations August Kohls for being awarded the Neil and Jo Bushnell Fellowship in Engineering. This award recognizes outstanding work in nanotechnology and electronic materials (Spring 2024).
Welcome Postdoctoral Research Associate Ravikumar Krishnamurthy (Fall 2023).
Welcome research-based Master Students Jiaqi Chen, Jiahui Dai, and Matteo Sanchez-Dahl Gonzalez (Fall 2023).
Welcome Ph.D. Student Huy Nguyen to the Zheng MINIBio Lab and congratulations on the Carnegie Mellon-Vingroup Fellowship (Fall 2023).
Congratulations again August Kohls for being a Student Innovation Competition - Promoting and Access (SICPEA) Finalist. This competition recognizes research methods to improve underrepresented groups’ retention in engineering by evaluating and attenuating factors that push and pull these students from engineering (Spring 2023).
Congratulations August Kohls for being awarded the Benjamin Graver Lamme/Westinghouse Graduate Fellowship. This award recognizes excellence in teaching, contributions to research and technical literature, and achievements that advance the profession of engineering college administration (Spring 2023).
Welcome Ph.D. student Abba Jalili to the Zheng MINIBio Lab (Spring 2023).
Welcome Ph.D. students Jaewon Choi and Belle Wongsuwan and Master Students Qinyu Ni and Vaishnavi Umalkar to the Zheng MINIBio Lab (Fall 2022).
Congratulations to August Kohls winning best qualifying exam in ECE (Spring 2022) .
Congratulations to Jeongyun (Marie) Kim for completing her M.S. of Biomedical Engineering (Spring 2022) .
Congratulations to Keng-Jung (KJ) Lee and Fahimeh Dehghandehnavi, both of whom won Outstanding Poster Award of the 4th Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering (2021).
Welcome Masters students Mingxi (Marshall) Chen and Allen Wang to the Zheng MINIBio Lab (Fall 2021).
Congratulations to Dr. Mackenzie Maurer Ditty for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation. (2021)
Congratulations to Sheng Zhang, who won the CMU Center for Machine Learning and Health's Fellowship in Digital Health (2021). Announcement Link
Congratulations to Mackenzie Maurer Ditty, who won the 2nd place for Poster Presentation of the 47 th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (2021). Announcement Link
Welcome Ph.D. students August Kohls, Harrison Lawson, and Keng-Jung (KJ) Lee and Masters Students Jaewon Choi and Jeongyun (Marie) Kim to the Zheng MINIBio Lab (Fall 2020).
Congratulations to Sheng Zhang for completing her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2020). She will be continue as a Ph.D. student in the Zheng MINIBio Lab.
Congratulations to Dr. Wenlong Zheng for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation (2019).
Congratulations to Mackenzie Maurer Ditty, who won the Outstanding Poster Award of the 2nd Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering (2019).
Welcome Ph.D. students Fahimeh Deghandehnavi and Mengrou (Lucia) Lu and Masters student Sheng Zhang to the Zheng MINIBio Lab (Fall 2019).
Outreach
Penn State Center for Nanotechnology Education & Utilization (CNEU)
CNEU is a member of the NSF Center for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) Network. The center offers the Capstone semester, which is required for all 34 Pennsylvania Nanofabrication Manufacturing Technology Partnership programs (NMTP, Bachelor or Associate degrees).
Dr. Zheng gives a half day lecture on micro/nanotechnology for biomedical applications and demonstrated some devices from his previous research.
Discovery Space Children’s Science Museum of Central Pennsylvania
Discovery Space Children’s Science Museum opened in State College in 2011 with a mission “To provide engaging science experiences which spark creativity, curiosity and imagination”. It is a non-profit organization that provides the opportunity for hands on learning through interactive exhibits for children aged 2-12.
The lab presents an exhibit on cancer and what makes it bad.
Penn State's Millennium Science Complex (MSC)
The Millennium Science Complex is a 275,600 square-foot science building housing two of the University's premier research organizations - the Materials Research Institute and The Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences. It is a new facility to encourage the convergence of engineering, physical science, and life sciences. As one of the research labs resides in the building, we frequently provide tours for the public visitors.
We hosted a group of high school students from the Northern Bedford High School of Loysburg, PA, which is 66 miles from Penn State.
Ramdane led a group of industrial visitors to the MSC building.Penn State's Bennett Family Center
The Bennett Family Center is the daycare center on campus. It provides daycare for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years.
Dr. Zheng explains blood circulation to preschoolers.
Corl Street Elementary School
Corl Street Elementary is a local member of the State College Area School District serving Grades K-5. Suzie and Ramdane visited Mrs. Hooper’s 5th grade class to present some of the concepts involved with their research. Activities included making models of blood in tests tubes and a demonstration of phase contrast microscopy.
