Allison Beese named senior associate director of National Security Institute

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Allison Beese, professor of materials science and engineering and of mechanical engineering at Penn State, has been named the senior associate director of Penn State’s new National Security Institute. She will begin her appointment on May 15. The National Security Institute will enhance research outside the scope of Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), a Department of Defense-designated University Affiliate Research Center that supports all the U.S. Armed...