John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering | Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Two faculty members in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences have been awarded the prestigious U.S.-Africa Frontiers Fellowships by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

Ten interdisciplinary research teams have received funding through the Institute of Energy and the Environment’s (IEE) 2025 Seed Grant Program.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Department Executive Officers (DEO) program has gained five additional fellows from the Penn State ranks, including Luis Ayala, head of the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering.

Eight research projects have been selected for support from the Penn State Commercialization GAP Fund, including two by faculty in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering.

As part of the Mining Rocks! Summer Camp, high school students toured a local quarry with faculty and graduate students.

MINING ROCKS! Mining Summer Camp, the five-day camp hosted by EME, teaches high schoolers the fundamentals of mining.

Levent Taylan Ozgur Yildirim, Rosemary Tosanwumi, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, Nicolas Bueno and Nathan Sutton

Thirteen students from EME took home several awards and scholarships from the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Association of Drilling Engineers .

Gabriel Schaefer, who earned his degree in energy engineering at Penn State, helps build solar plants from the Eastern to the Midwestern United States

The Penn State team, “Sunny Valley,” which included Vaughn Kutish, Sophia Warnock, Michael Gurnee, Jaclyn Rawa, Kurt Phillips, and Maria Amalia Abreu

Six Penn State students recently won a first-place award in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solar District Cup division, the second consecutive first-place division win for the University.

Penn State is offering two new graduate certificates in its energy and sustainability portfolio that can help professionals seeking to play a role in the global shift towards sustainable energy solutions.

Mining engineering students from the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering

The Leone Family Foundation recently awarded grants to support three Penn State priorities: the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, the Willie Leone Scholarship Fund in Music and Penn State Centre Stage. Offering a total of $300,000 in support, the grants will fill critical funding gaps for experiential learning opportunities in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and the College of Arts and Architecture.