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Current
News
December 22, 2004
2004 PSU United Way Goal Exceeded by EMS Family
According to the latest report from the PSU United Way Committee, EMS has exceeded its United Way goal for 2004. A special thanks is extended to everyone for their time, commitment and hard work. We especially want to recognize Todd Bacastow, Colleen Swetland, and Bob Watson for their leadership in these efforts. [MORE] Motel Presents EMS with a Flag of Appreciation; Joe Schall Achieves Two Noteworthy Publications; The Dean's Staff Appreciation Luncheon; A Conference Offered on Principles of Acid Pollution Control Along Highways
November 5, 2004
President Spanier Attends EMS Fall Faculty Meeting
Penn State President, Graham Spanier, was invited by Dean Barron to attend the EMS Fall Faculty Meeting on Wednesday, October 27, 2004. Dr. Spanier commended the College on its strategic planning efforts and the future goals we have set for the College. The new Ryan Student Center offers wonderful accessibility for our students, which is important because Penn State is now the most expensive public university in the United States. He praised our student-centered emphases, which complement our high per-capita productivity in research, scholarship, graduate education, and outreach. He was delighted to see a standing-room-only faculty meeting. [MORE] Knight Named Gosnell Senior Faculty Scholar; Recipients of the Miller Professorships in Geography Announced; EMS Faculty Members Named John T. Ryan, Jr. Faculty Fellows; EGEE's Mining Engineering Team Receives Grant from MSHA; Chander Named Recipient of the Gaudin Award; Bise Nominated as Member of Careers in Coal; EMS Recognizes Cahir and Faber with the Hosler Alumni Scholar Medal; EMS Recognizes Ciminelli, Hess and Nese with GEMS Alumni Achievement Awards; Penn State Recognizes Berents and Perry with Alumni Fellow Awards
October 11, 2004
Yaw D. Yeboah Appointed Head of the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
Yaw D. Yeboah currently was appointed as the head of the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering. Dr. Yeboah comes to Penn State from Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia where he served as Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. [MORE] EMS Researchers Receive $6.7 Million from NSF for Environmental Kinetics Center; Gladys Snyder Education Grant Awards; EMS People Featured in Spanier's State of the University Address, September 17, 2004; EMS Faculty Named Director of the Women's Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts
September 16, 2004
K. Osseo-Asare Awarded Title of Distinguished Professor
K. Osseo-Asare recently received the title of distinguished professor of metallurgy. Earlier this year Professor Osse-Asare was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. [MORE]
May 21, 2004
Higher
Educaton
David DiBiase is masterminding a science offering not
just for students at Penn State, but for what he hopes
could be audiences around the country and around the
world. Combining the efforts of Evan Pugh Professor
of Geosciences Dr. Richard Alley with Penn State Public
Broadcasting (PSPB) and Penn State's World Campus, DiBiase
plans for Alley's Geology of the National Parks course
to become a 15-episode television series. [MORE]
May 21, 2004
Michael Adewumi selected as CIC - Academic Leadership
Program Fellow.
The Academic Leadership Program, now in its seventeenth
year, was established by CIC to develop the leadership
and managerial skills of faculty on CIC campuses who
have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative
promise. The program involves the Fellows in a series
of three-day seminars, as well as background readings
and participation in related activities on their home
campuses between seminars.[MORE]
September
25, 2003
State Inventory Shows Fossil Fuels Largest Source
of Carbon Dioxide
University Park, Pa. – Carbon dioxide emissions from
fossil fuels are the most significant greenhouse gas
emissions in Pennsylvania, according to the Greenhouse
Gas Emissions Inventory for Pennsylvania prepared by
Penn State researchers.
[MORE]
September
17, 2003
Synthesis of Cage-Like Silica Structure Easier and
Cheaper
University Park, Pa. -- A tailored, cage-like silica
structure, developed by Penn State researchers, is easier
and less expensive to make than previous materials and
is tunable in size.
[MORE]
September
16, 2003
Hurricane Isabel Poised for Mid-Atlantic Downpour
University Park, Pa. --- Hurricane Isabel, moving up
the Eastern Seaboard has no choice but to turn westward
into the mid Atlantic states.
[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]
September
8, 2003
New Faculty Books Hit the Shelves
Check out the latest titles by EMS faculty.
[MORE]
August
26, 2003
Planetary Tilt Not a Spoiler for Habitation
Erie, Pa. -- In B science fiction movies, a terrible
force often pushes the Earth off its axis and spells
disaster for all life on Earth. In reality, life would
still be possible on Earth and any Earth-like planets
if the axis tilt were greater than it is now, according
to Penn State researchers.
[MORE]
August
26, 2003
Geologists Find That Tides Control Antarctic Ice
Streams
University Park, Pa. -- The moon is often accused of
causing lunacy, bringing on labor and transforming werewolves.
Now it seems that in reality, the moon, through the
tides, is responsible for the pattern of motion exhibited
by ice streams in the Antarctic, according to a team
of geologists.
[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]
August
14, 2003
Glaciers Strive for Steady-State Bed Erosion
University Park, Pa. -- 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]
March
21, 2003
e-Education Institute Renamed In Honor of John A.
Dutton, Dean Emeritus
Hershey, Pa. --- The 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.
[MORE]
March
20, 2003
Sue Brantley Named Director of Environment Institute
Susan Brantley, professor of geosciences and director
of the Center for Environmental Chemistry and Geochemistry,
accepted the position of director of the EMS Environment
Institute on Tuesday morning.
[MORE]
March
18, 2003
Adewumi Appointed Director of New African Alliance
Michael Adewumi, professor and Quentin E. and Louis
L. Wood Faculty Fellow in petroleum and natural gas
engineering, has been appointed by Dean Eric Barron
to direct the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences'
newly formed Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering,
and Development in Africa.
[MORE]
February
16, 2003
Fossil Plant and Insect Communities Key to Understanding
Global Change
Denver ---- Insect damage recorded in fossil plants
and the types of plants present in the fossil record
are helping researchers to understand how ecological
communities recover from climate change and mass extinction
events, according to Peter Wilf, assistant professor
of geosciences and his colleagues.
[MORE]
February
14, 2003
Color Key to Presentation of Understandable Scientific
Data
Denver ----- The scientific establishment is drowning
in data, but whether it is census data or the vast amounts
of satellite or computer-generated information created
every day, visual representation and use of color can
help scientists understand and extract important patterns
from this deluge, according to Cynthia Brewer, associate
professor of geography.
[MORE]
February
14, 2003
Centralia, Pa., Underground Coal Fire Creeping Forward
Denver ---- For those who have forgotten, Centralia,
Pa. is still burning underground and the fire front
is still moving, but for a Penn State psychology undergraduate,
Centralia became the focus of geologic research that
broadened her interest in local history to include geology.
[MORE]
February
14, 2003
Early Mars: Warm Enough to Melt Water?
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]
January
3, 2003
Pasta Provides Glimpse of Earthquake Fault Friction
Forces
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]
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