The Tour of Winterthur of Du Point

The Commission for Women at Penn State Lehigh Valley organized a bus tour to Winterthur for a day trip on Saturday on Nov. 8. It was a beautiful day. Surrounded by the beautiful scenery of the gardens and houses, my colleague and I felt like we were the ladies taken back in time, as we jokingly addressed each other as ladies when we were waiting to embark on the tram tour.

Then there was the Costumes of Downton Abbey exhibit at Winterthur. I was quite surprised to learn of people's immense interest in the Downton Abbey TV series.

The tour was finished with a high tea at the DuPont Country Club. It was a great outing, I'd say.

Faculty News Dated Aug 19 2014

Dr. Tai-Yin Huang, associate professor of physics, presented a paper in the United Kingdom entitled "Modeling Airglow Variations Induced by CO2 Concentration Change and F10.7 Variations" at the 8th Annual Workshop on Long-Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere. The workshop was organized by the British Antarctica Survey and was held in Clare College of Cambridge University, United Kingdom from July 27 - August 1.

Cambridge is awesome! Loved the place.

Physics students presented at International CEDAR Workshop

Faculty News dated July 15, 2014

Two Penn State students presented their posters at the 2014 CEDAR Workshop held at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA from June 22-26, 2014. The students started their research at the Lehigh Valley campus and worked with Dr.Tai-Yin Huang, associate professor of physics, as undergraduate research assistants sponsored by NSF grants. Richard George presented a poster titled "The Effects of Gravity Waves on Airglow Temperatures in the MLT Region", with Dr. Huang. Chris Dimenichi presented "The Influence of CO2 Concentration and F10.7 Variations on Mesospheric Airglow Emissions", with Dr. Huang. Their travel was sponsored in part by NSF and Penn State Undergraduate Travel Grants.

Huang's COWA Presentations

Faculty News dated May 19, 2014

Penn State to host Center on Optical Wireless Applications meeting

Penn State is hosting an industrial advisory board meeting of the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Optical Wireless Applications (COWA) on May 21 - 23, 2014, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. Click here for the link to the full news coverage (please see the previous blog post on this news release by COWA).

Dr. Tai-Yin Huang, associate professor of physics, is scheduled to give an invited talk entitled "Lighting the Future with LEDs" and present a poster entitled "COB RGB LEDs for Lighting and Wireless Applications" with co-presenter Dr. T.-B. Sun. In addition to sharing research progress and findings among COWA faculty and industrial members, the meeting also intends to draw attention from engineers, leaders, and executives in visionary companies interested in optical wireless applications.

COWA Meeting

Sharing a link Penn State to host COWA Meeting

Patent Granted

Faculty News dated May 12, 2014

Dr. Tai-Yin Huang, associate professor of physics, was granted a patent titled "Energy Storage Device" from Taiwan Intellectual Property Office. The patented invention is about harvesting, storing, and utilizing electrical energy from lightning discharge. A patent application to be submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office has been in preparation.

Faculty News dated April 21, 2014

Faculty News dated April 21, 2014

Dr. Tai-Yin Huang, associate professor of physics, was at the Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada from April 9 - 11, 2014. She served as a Ph.D. thesis external examiner at a Ph. D. candidate's oral defense. She also gave an invited talk entitled "Atmospheric Research on Gravity Waves, Airglow, Lightning, and Climate Change" at a private Graduate Seminar at the School of Mathematics and Statistic, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Chinese New Year Celebration

News Article published in World Journal about Chinese New Year Celebration organized by Lehigh Valley Chinese School and Lehigh Valley Taiwanese Women Association. Here is the link News Article

COWA Faculty

Faculty New dated 3.24.2014 Dr. Tai-Yin Huang, associate professor of physics, has accepted the invitation to join the Center on Optical Wireless Applications (COWA) to become their 14th faculty member (http://cowa.psu.edu/Faculty_Members.html). Under the auspices of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) are collaborating in an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Optical Wireless Applications (http://cowa.psu.edu/Home.html). COWA has 14 faculty members from PSU and GT and 11 industry members. Notably, Dr. Huang is the only female faculty from PSU at the Center. Dr. Huang currently owns 17 patents (5 pending) on LED lighting technology and an LED lighting company Andromeda LED Lighting. Collaborations are anticipated in the research area of wireless communication via visible spectrum of LED lighting in lighting applications.

Professor receives National Science Foundation funding for physics research

Forgot to post it. The news was published on July 30, 2013.

7/30/2013 —

Tai-Yin Huang, associate professor of physics at Penn State Lehigh Valley, has recently been awarded supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the amount of $19,998 under the AGS-1202019 award "Micrometeoroid Mass Flux Influences on Space Weather and Middle Atmosphere Aeronomy Studied Using the Six NSF Radars and Modeling" (PI: John Mathews, Electrical Engineering Department, Penn State University).

The chemistry models developed by Huang can be used to study if there is any airglow variation induced by the passage of meteors either through the atmospheric compositional changes or by chemical reactions. It is essential to investigate the chemical reactions in the models for normal conditions so that they can be used as a baseline for comparisons when there are meteors.

Professor receives National Science Foundation funding for physics research