Sustainability Feb. 19 EarthTalks: Carbon emissions trading, incentives in building retrofits 02/14/2024 Wangda Zuo, Rahman Azari and Jiazhen Ling will give the talk, “The Economic Impacts of Carbon Emission Trading Scheme on Building Retrofits,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 19, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. |
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Research Stable profits, land preservation matter to farmers debating solar leases 02/12/2024 To solar or not to solar? While a stable and predictable profit is an important factor to Pennsylvania farmers considering leasing out their land for solar energy development, it’s not enough on its own, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers |
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Graduate Student Geography Coffee Hour lecture to explore Ghana's food system shift 02/09/2024 Halie Kampman, a postdoctoral scholar in Penn State’s Department of Geography, will present "Health in Transition: The Politics of Nutrition and Food Systems Change in Ghana" at the next Department of Geography's Coffee Hour lecture. The talk will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16. |
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Sustainability Urban development's effects on stormwater management topic of Feb. 12 EarthTalks 02/09/2024 Shirley Clark and James Hunter will give the talk, “Challenges of Historic Urban Land Development and Soil Water Disturbance on Urban Stormwater Management,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 12. |
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Sending a 'We Are!' to these Penn Staters 02/07/2024 Amy Hasan, administrative support coordinator in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, was recognized with a “We Are!” for going above and beyond for the University. |
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Graduate Student Research to better understand early Earth diversity supported by Ford Foundation 02/06/2024 Kayla Irizarry, doctoral candidate in geosciences at Penn State, is using her Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship to better understand what controlled diversity in Earth’s earliest complex ecosystems. |
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Faculty Submissions now open for 2024 annual Materials Visualization Competition 02/05/2024 The 16th annual Materials Visualization Competition (MVC16), an annual scientific and artistic visual competition sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State, is now accepting submissions. Deadline for submissions is March 18. |
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Faculty Guha Manogharan named co-director of Penn State’s additive manufacturing center 02/02/2024 Guha Manogharan, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, was named co-director of the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D). |
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Faculty Toraman receives recognition from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 02/01/2024 Hilal Ezgi Toraman, assistant professor of energy engineering and chemical engineering at Penn State, was selected as a “Pioneer of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE)” by the CRE division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). |
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Faculty Ancient rocks improve understanding of tectonic activity between earthquakes 02/01/2024 Rocks once buried deep in ancient subduction zones — where tectonic plates collide — could help scientists make better predictions of how these zones behave during the years between major earthquakes, according to a research team from Penn State and Brown University. |