External investments in research at Penn State Harrisburg help position the college to engage in more groundbreaking research efforts that will have lasting regional, national and global impacts. Here Olivia Lowe, mechanical engineering student, examines a marine sponge, searching for spicules to be evaluated by a scanning electron microscope as part of research conducted by Fariborz Tavangarian, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, on the potential for spicules to be used in human bone tissue engineering and other applications.
