Prior to her internship with Penn State's Office of Investment Management, Morgan Keim, a Dalmatia, Pennsylvania, native and senior at Penn State did not know what her future held. After her remote internship experience this summer, that is no longer the case.
The ways Penn State is addressing global climate change will be discussed during the eighth season premiere of President Eric Barron's monthly WPSU show, "Digging Deeper," on Sunday, Sept. 26.
From the U.S. Constitution to next-generation radio telescopes, and from genomic imaging to knitted textile design, the fall 2021 Data Science Community virtual talk series will showcase the many ways that Penn State researchers and educators are applying data science to advance their work. The series of talks is open to Penn State community members, and advance registration is required.
The Department of Geography Coffee Hour lecture series has resumed on Friday afternoons for the fall 2021 semester on Penn State's University Park campus.
Previous fires may hold the key to predicting and reducing the severity of future wildfires in the western United States as fire activity continues to increase, according to researchers from Penn State and the U.S. Forest Service.
President Eric Barron has created the Carbon Emissions Reduction Task Force to reconsider Penn State's greenhouse gas emissions goal of reducing greenhouse gas outputs to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 with a view toward setting a more aggressive target as well as a revised timeframe.
The Fall 2021 EESI EarthTalks series, "Fire in the Earth System," will address humanity's long relationship with fire, how humans and climate create conditions conducive to megafires, and how policy makers and land managers can address the fire problem.