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News
Archive -- 2003
Pasta Provides Glimpse of Earthquake Fault Friction
Forces
January 3, 2003
University Park, Pa. - A popular brand of angel hair
pasta is helping researchers experimentally to understand
the friction forces that occur in an earthquake fault
and providing better information than current numerical
models, according to a Penn State geoscientist.
[MORE]
Early Mars: Warm Enough to Melt Water?
February 14, 2003
Denver - While some researchers believe that only asteroid
collisions made Mars warm enough to have running rivers,
a Penn State researcher believes the planet had to be
continuously warmer to form Mars' deep valleys, but
he does not know how the planet warmed up.
[MORE]
Color Key to Presentation of Understandable Scientific
Data
February 14, 2003
Denver – The scientific establishment is drowning
in data, but whether it is census data or the vast amounts
of satellite and computer-generated information created
every day, visual representation and the use of color
can help scientists understand and extract important
patterns from this deluge, according to a Penn State
cartographer. [MORE]
e-Education Institute Renamed In Honor Of John A.
Dutton, Dean Emeritus
March 21, 2003
Hershey, Pa. – The Penn State Board of Trustees
voted today (March 21) to rename the College of Earth
and Mineral Sciences' e-Education
Institute: The John A. Dutton e-Education Institute,
to honor the man instrumental in creating the institute's
vision. Dutton, dean emeritus of the College of Earth
and Mineral Sciences and professor emeritus of meteorology,
served as dean for 16 years before his retirement in
2002. [MORE]
Fred Gadomski and Paul Knight of WPSX-TV's Weather
World Named Television Broadcasters of the Year April
9, 2003
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA - The Pennsylvania Association
of Broadcasters (PAB) has recognized several PENN STATE
PUBLIC BROADCASTING staffers for this year's PAB Awards.
Fred Gadomski and Paul Knight, hosts of WPSX-TV's WEATHER
WORLD, have been named Television Broadcasters of the
Year. The awards will be distributed May 5 at the PAB
convention in Hershey, PA. [MORE]
2003/2004 Administrative Calendar
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August 14, 2003
GLACIERS STRIVE FOR STEADY-STATE IN BED EROSION
Glaciers erode the mountain landscape, creating piles
of boulders, rocks and gravel, and leaving scooped-out
tarns and cirques; but until recently, geologists were
unsure how to model this erosion because the feedback
mechanisms controlling it were unknown. Now a team of
geologists using a variety of data suggests that a strict
regime controls glacial erosion and tends toward steady-state
equilibrium. [MORE]
August 14, 2003
Nitrous Oxide Record Sheds Light on Glacial Carbon
Dioxide
University Park, PA ---- A 106,000-year-long record
of nitrous oxide concentrations and a shorter record
of nitrogen and oxygen isotopes show that both marine
and terrestrial nitrous oxide production increased in
unison and effectively by the same proportional amount
during the end of the last glacial period, according
to Penn State researchers. [MORE]
September 9, 2003
Printing Plastic Circuits Stamps Patterns in Place
New York – When Benjamin in “The Graduate”
was told to go into plastics, computers were in their
infancy and silicon technology ruled. Now, conducting
organic polymers are infiltrating the electronics sphere
and the watchword is once again plastics, according
to Penn State researchers. [MORE]
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