March 31, 2010
Dr. James Adair's Latest Paper Targets Delivery and Near Infra-red Imagining of Cancer
Dr. James H. Adair, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering latest paper on targeted delivery and near infra-red imaging of cancer has been published on-line in ACS Nano.  This paper is on imaging of breast and pancreatic cancer in an animal model.  The content spans the physical chemistry to the near clinical. This work may lead the way to not only to earlier diagnosis, but quite possibly to targeted delivery of chemotherapeutics to such intractable cancers as those of the pancreas.

March 29, 2010
PSU/WUN Workshop on Climate Change and Adaptation Poster Session
Penn State and the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) will hold a poster session in conjunction with the WUN global challenge workshop "Adapting to Climate Change."  Graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and researchers at Penn State are invited to participate in this poster session on Sunday, May 23, 2010.  Contact:  Jen Shaffer, Postdoctoral Scholar, Econological Anthropoligist, Department of Geography

Materials Characterization Lab Gets State-of-the-Art Mass Spectrometer
A mass spectrometer that will help researchers interpret and understand the history of the Earth system will join other instruments in the Penn State's multi-user Materials Characterization Laboratory, thanks to a $724,000 grant through the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Program.

March 25, 2010
Penn State Students Sweep Top Honors at the 2010 Regional SPE Student Paper/Presentation Contest
Students in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering program placed first in all three divisions of the 2010 Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Rocky Mountain/Mid-Continent/Eastern Region Student Paper/Presentation competition on Saturday, March 20 at University Park, PA.

March 24, 2010
Initiative to Study Pennsylvania Electricity Markets and Economics.
University Park, Pa. -- Producers, distributors and regulators have joined with Penn State to form the Penn State Electricity Economics Initiative, a cooperative project to investigate possibilities and challenges surrounding electricity restructuring in the commonwealth.

March 24, 2010
William Ryan Named '2010 Partner of the Year' by EPA AIRNow Program.
Research Assistant in the Department of Meteorology, William F. Ryan, was recently named '2010 Partner of the Year' by the EPA for sharing his time, knowledge and enthusiasm about air quality forecasting throughout the life of the AIRNow program.  The award was presented at the 2010 National Air Quality Conference in Raleigh, NC on 16 March.

March 22, 2010
Colorado Geography to Give Next Coffee Hour Talk at Penn State Geography
University of Colorado-Boulder geography professor Barbara “Babs” Buttenfield will give a lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, March 26, in 112 Walker as part of the Penn State Geography Department's coffee hour series.

March 19, 2010
Marcellus Shale Expert to Lecture at Penn State on March 28
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa -- Terry Engelder, professor of geosciences at Penn State and leading expert on the Marcellus shale, will present “A Brief History of the Marcellus Shale Gas: A 1940 Blowout, a 1959 Sputnik-era Science Fair, and the Jan. 17, 2008 Penn State Press Release,” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 28, in the auditorium at the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus. Engelder's presentation is open to the public and is among the events planned for the 25th annual Graduate Exhibition.

March 17, 2010
ConocoPhillips, Penn State Launch 2010 ConocoPhillips Energy Prize
HOUSTON and UNIVERSITY PARK -- ConocoPhillips and Penn State launched the 2010 ConocoPhillips Energy Prize, a competition that recognizes original and viable solutions that can help improve the way the United States develops and uses energy.

March 26-27, 2010
The 13th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium will take place in 112 Forest Resources Building & Atrium, Penn State University. Dr. Neil Donahue, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University is the Keynote Speaker. At 4:00 pm Friday, March 26, he will present "Dealing with the Goopy Messy Stuff: The Coupled Oxidation Chemistry and Phase Partioning of Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere" and at 3:30 pm on Saturday, March 27, his talk title is "Aerosols, Chemistry, Climate, and Health: Quantum Chemistry to Global Models." Student poster sessions will begin at 5:00 pm on Friday, March 26 and oral sessions will begin at 9:15 am on Saturday, March 27.

March 15, 2010
Department of Geography Spring 2010 Miller Lecture
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The relationships between humans and animals in India's conservation areas suggest that species define their borders through adaptation and coercion, according to a geographer who'll visit Penn State this week.

March 12, 2010
Gary L. Messing Elected Fellow of Materials Research Society (MRS)
Gary L. Messing, Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected, Fellow of the Materials Research Society. 

March 11, 2010
Raja V. Ramani Receives AIME Honorary Membership Award
On March 3, 2010, Raja V. Ramani, professor emeritus of mining and geo-environmental engineering, was presented with an honorary membership award from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) "in recognition of his contributions to mining engineering education and practice, his research to improve mine health and safety and his more than 40 years distinguished service to SME and AIME."

March 10, 2010
MatSE and MVC09 Featured on LabGrab.com
The Materials Visualization Competition 2009 (MVC09) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering are currently featured on the science new website, LabGrab.com.

March 8, 2010
Science Teachers Join Penn State-Woods Hole Earthquake Team
As the massive earthquakes in Haiti and Chile show, the science of seismology has not advanced far enough for scientists to accurately predict earthquakes, but a new Penn State and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution project aims to add to the scientific understanding of earthquakes by involving secondary school science teachers in a national research effort to study earthquake swarms.

March 5, 2010
Penn State Geography at 2010 Association of American Geographers annual meeting
More than 60 Penn State geography faculty and students will present their research at the 2010 Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Washington, D.C., from April 14-18.

Revisiting Chicxulub
National Science Foundation - A broad look at the evidence for a dinosaur-killing impact.
". . .The impact event triggered tsunami many times the size of the wave that hit the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004, "said marine geologist Tim Bralower of Penn State . . . "

March 3, 2010
MatSE is on YouTube! - Department of Materials Science and Engineering YouTube Channel
See interview videos with MatSE faculty discussing their research in materials science and engineering at Penn State.  The MatSE channel also includes a video that provides and overview of the opportunities available within the Department.  

March 1, 2010
Tiny Shelled Creatures Shed Light on Extinction and Recovery 65 Million Years Ago
An astroid strike may not only account for the dimise of ocean and land life 65 million years ago, but the fireball's path and the resulting dust, darkeness and toxic metal contamination may explain the geographic unevenness of extinctions and recovery, according to Penn State geoscientists.

Geography Undergrad Drew Lehnerd Writes About Culture and Cuisine on His Semester at Sea Blog
Japan has come and gone so quickly that I am still trying to process everything that I experienced. We arrived into the port city of Yokohama only a couple hours behind schedule and rushed off the ship as quickly as possible. ...

February 25, 2010
Hickner Receives PECASE Award
Michael Hickner, Assistant Professor of Materials Science was named by President Obama as one of 100 young researchers to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed on beginning researchers by the United States government.

Materials Visualization Competition 2010 (MVC10)
IT'S HERE!  The second annual Materials Visualization Competition has begun.  MVC10 is a scientific visual and artistic competition sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute.  Created to celebrate the quality of research in Materials at Penn State, this competition promises to increase awareness of materials science through the creativity and visualization of our researchers.

School of International Affairs to Host Steven Mufson, Washington Post Correspondent
Penn State's School of International Affairs will host Steven Mufson, a senior reporter who covers energy issues for the Washington Post, to give a talk on globlization and energy on March 2.  His presentation is part of the School's weekly "Colloquium on Global Issues."  All Penn State students interested in science, business, and journalism are welcome.

Geography Coffee Hour - William E. Easterling
William Easterling, Dean, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, will be the speaker for the Department of Geography's Coffee Hour at 4 p.m. Friday, February 26, in 112 Walker. The title of his talk is:  "Pasteur's Quadrant, Moon Shots and the Death of Distance." Are you unable to attend, watch the talk online at http://bit.ly/cITUqU.

Have you become a fan of GEMS on Facebook?
Keep up-to-date on the latest College news and network with EMS Alums.

February 24, 2010
THON - EMS THON Top 5 Among Independents
Kimberly Del Bright talks about the participation of EMS students at THON 

February 22, 2010
Penn State Law to Host Fire Symposium
Conservation professionals, wildlife enthusiasts, forest managers, and government officials are invited to Penn State Law for "Fire in the Eastern United States," a symposium sponsored by the Penn State Environmental Law Review on April 1, 2010.  Panelists inlcude Erica Smithwick, assistant professor of geography and director of Landscape Ecology, who studies ecosystem-wide impacts of forest fire and other disturbances.

February 15, 2010
Beyond the Edge of the Sea:  Diversity of Life in the Deep Ocean Wilderness
University Park, Pa -- Starting February 28, 2010, the EMS Museum & Art Gallery will host two new exhibits.  Beyond the Edge of the Sea:  Diversity of Life in the Deep-Ocean Wilderness, funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) and National Science Foundation (NSF), explores and investigates hydrothermal vents on the bottom of the ocean, at times many miles down.

February 11, 2010
Geography Professor Derrick Lampkin Receives Grant to Study Supra-Glacial Lakes
University Park, Pa. -- Rising temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet cause the creation of large surface lakes called supra-glacial lakes. Now a Penn State geographer will investigate why these lakes form and their implications.

February 9, 2010
OBITUARY - Paul Simkins, Professor Emeritus, Geography
Paul Simkins, Professor Emeritus, died on February 9, 2010 at age 82.  Paul, whose research and teaching interests included populations, migration, and Latin America, retired from the Department of Geography at Penn State in 1991.  The address for his wife, Mary Jo Simkins is:  Lutheran Village at Wolf Freek, 2001 Perrysburg-Holland Road, #155, Holland, OH  43528

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.

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