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February 9, 2010
Geography grad students announce 2010 No Boundaries Student Conference and call for papers
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Graduates and undergraduates are invited to present their research at the Penn State Department of Geography’s 2010 No Boundaries graduate student conference on March 20.

February 8, 2010
Penn State climatologist Michael Mann is next geography coffee hour speaker
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State meteorology professor and climatologist Michael Mann will discuss evidence of climate change in past centuries during a talk at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, in Room 112 Walker.

February 5, 2010
Penn State Parners with Volvo as Academic Partner
The Volvo Group has chosen Penn State as its first academic preferred partnership in North America to explore and resolve some of the serious issues in commercial transportation markets around the world.

February 2, 2010
Geography grad student doing fieldwork in Tanzania
Maureen Biermann, a doctorial candidate in geography, is far from the cold winter of central Pennsylvania. She recently arrived in the East African country of Tanzania, where she'll work on a project called "Anticipatory Learning for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience."

Febuary 2010
Seeing Growth in Green:  the 2009 Solar Decathlon
The U.S. government, through the Department of Energy (DOE), hosted the biannual Solar Dethalon in October 2009.  Twenty teams competed in 10 contests to determine which team designed, constructed, and operated the most attractive, energy-efficient solar-powered house. - by Kimberly Del Bright

The Good Traveler
Tom Rauch's Blog - Welcome to the geo-blog of a traveler, a young man in search of world citizenship.  Tom's curiosity and wanderlust lead him to many places both physically and mentally and for the spring of 2010 these will lead him to Eastern Asia.  You can now follow Tom on Twitter! 

January 18, 2010
Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery Accepted Into Museum Assessment Program (MAP)
The Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery has been accepted into the Museum Assessment Program (MAP) for a 2010 Institutional Assessment by the American Association of Museums (AAM). Acceptance into MAP is acknowledgment by AAM of the EMS Museum's continued work towards recognition as an institution which employs standards and best practices of the museum field to its entire operation. The Institutional Assessment is a step toward AAM Accreditation for the EMS Museum.

Penn State Administrator to Address Challenge of Students Sustaining Democracy - Geography
Penn State administrator Jeremy Cohen says students need more tools to sustain a democratic republic, and he'll address that challenge during a lecture at 4 p.m. Friday in 112 Walker.

January 11, 2010
Weekly Earth and Environmental Film Series Begins January 20, 2010
The Earth and Mineral Sciences Library Spring 2010 Film Series kicks off on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, with a documentary on geologic changes in the Great Lakes.  All films are screened at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesdays in room 105 Deike Building.  The films feature a diverse mix of topics related to Earth and the environment.

January 7, 2010
Penn State Professor Wins Rare International Research Award
As an undergraduate at Williams College in Massachusetts, Demian Saffer had no idea just how far his interest in geology would take him.  Recently, the Penn State associate professor in geosciences was named a Humboldtian - recipient of a 2009 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Homboldt Foundation.

January 6, 2010
Undergrad to Blog While on Semester at Sea - Geography
Last year, Drew Lehnerd studied theories on sustainability. This spring, he will apply those theories he learned at Penn State in places like Vietnam, South Africa and Brazil.

January 2010
Two Meteorology faculty named AMS Fellows
Fellows are selected for their outstanding contributions to the atmospheric sciences and/or their application during a substantial period of years.

Connection Newsletter
Fall/Winter 2009 - Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering - College of Earth and Mineral Sciences - Penn State

January 4, 2010
Mobile Homes Provide Satisfaction, Drawbacks for Rural Pennsylvania
A majority of Pennsylvania's mobile home residents say they are overwhelmingly satisfied with their homes depsite the problems like construction quality, social stigma and financing associates with them, according to Penn State geographers.

December 18, 2009
Faculty Named Fellows of AAAS
William Ewart Easterling, III, Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science today.  Easterling is honored for distinguished contributions to the field of plant biology as realized through a holistic approach to understanding the response of plant cells to environmental stimuli.

December 18, 2009
Report from Antarctia
The U.N’s Climate Change Conference is wrapping up in Copenhagen--a good time for a report from literally the front lines of climate research. Local researcher Sridhar Anandakrishnan spoke to WPSU’s Cynthia Berger by phone from his camp on a fast-flowing glacier in Antarctica.

December 16, 2009
Fault Weaknesses, The Center Canno Hold for Geologic Faults
Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now an international team of researchers has laboratory evidence showing why some faults that "should not" slip are weaker than previously thought.

December 15, 2009
Rare-Earth Metal Enhances Phosphate Glass
Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colorless, according to Penn State researchers.

December 10, 2009
EMS Shop Purchases New Equipment
The new Haas SL-20 Turning Center is more than just a CNC lathe. Fitted with "live" tooling, it can perform complex computer-controlled milling operations as well. In either capacity the greatest advantage is repeatable close-tolerance production of parts in a fraction of the time required by manually moving from one point to another. We expect this piece of equipment will reduce costs for our customers and produce the high-quality, precision products our customers expect.

December 7, 2009
Penn State SBDC Give Engineering Class Tools to Help Small Businesses
A partnership between the Penn State Small Business Development Center and a Penn State engineering professor has translated into an invaluable learning experience for Penn State students and free environmental assistance for a few local businesses.

University Policy Addresses Climate Research Allegations
During the past two weeks, allegations have been made of research misconduct by several scientists engaged in global climate research - including a Penn State faculty member.

December 3, 2009
Michael Mann and 'Climategate'
The Penn Stater Magazine - The news last week that e-mail exchanges between prominent climate scientists had been hacked and made public - news that probably not coincidentially, came a couple of weeks before the upcoming international climate conference in Copenhagen.

December 1, 2009
Collaboration is Key to Sustainability
Ph.D. candidate Seth Baum, Department of Geography, taught GEOG 30, Geographic perspectives on Sustainability and Human-Environment Systems, during FA09.  The course featured a semester-long group project in which student worked with the Borough of State College on sustainability initiatives.

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