Office decor for the University’s new provost includes work by Benay Gürsoy and students in her Stuckeman School lab that explores the use of mycelium as building components.

Penn State’s Climate Consortium announced the awarded workshops from its Climate Solutions Accelerator program.

Stephen Chmely, an agricultural engineer in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences is embarking on research to explore using plant-based materials for 3D printing, thanks to support from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Penn State researchers have aided the state’s important mushroom industry for nearly 100 years, and they’re still going strong. But mushrooms aren’t just for eating anymore.

This summer, four undergraduate students from four different departments and two colleges at Penn State investigated new engineered living materials — materials that exhibit life-like features — for eight weeks in Germany.

Penn State’s Living Materials team is working across departments and continents to engineer adaptive, self-powering, living materials that respond to their environment.

A Penn State-designed window screen system that automatically changes its shape based on indoor and outdoor environmental conditions is part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal through Dec. 5.

Working together across disciplines, researchers from Penn State and the University of Freiburg are applying materials that adapt, respond to the environment, self-power, and regenerate to meet the challenges of adaptive architecture.

The Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems (LiMC2), in partnership with the University of Freiburg’s Cluster of Excellence for Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) recently hosted a graduate student-focused interactive workshop and poster session on June 21 to 22.

The Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems (LiMC2), in partnership with the University of Freiburg’s Cluster of Excellence for Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS), has announced the recipients of the inaugural Living Multifunctional Materials Collaborative Research Seed Grant Program. Three joint faculty teams from Penn State and University of Freiburg were selected for the program.

The June 9 webinar will focus on adaptive architecture research, a critical component in the pursuit of the sustainable, equitable and resource-efficient future of the built environment.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the winners of this year’s Upjohn Research Initiative, providing up to $30,000 to four research projects advancing sustainable architecture and design.

New paper on smart materials that can sense environmental changes and respond accordingly — without externally transferring data.

Elena Vazquez, an architecture doctoral candidate, and José Duarte, director of the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, were recently awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Upjohn Research Initiative grant for $25,000 to help further their research.

The meeting, focused on the convergence of materials and life, will take place Nov. 10-11

Award-winning doctoral student Xiaoyue Zhao explores how smart materials can harness triboelectricity to power small electronics

More than 100 registered participants met July 22-23 for a virtual webinar organized by the Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems (LiMC2). The webinar brought together researchers from Penn State and the University of Freiburg, and focused on three emerging topics in living materials, namely materials for sensing and diagnostics, smart buildings and adaptive architecture, and advanced manufacturing.

International Cooperation in Science and Research during COVID-19: The new normal in the U.S. and Germany

The universities signed an agreement for a joint center late last summer.