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Penn State Professor Wins $587K NSF Award for Innovative Design

2/21/2025

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Nathan Brown, an assistant professor at Penn State, has been awarded a prestigious $587,000 NSF CAREER Award for his innovative project on data-driven building design. This groundbreaking research will create computational tools to improve early design choices, merging architecture with engineering. Students will engage in hands-on data curation and design analysis, tackling real-world challenges together.

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Nathan Brown, an assistant professor at Penn State, has been awarded a prestigious $587,000 NSF CAREER Award for his innovative project on data-driven building design. This groundbreaking research will create computational tools to improve early design choices, merging architecture with engineering. Students will engage in hands-on data curation and design analysis, tackling real-world challenges together.