On a hike up a glacier in Iceland, Penn State junior Gabriel Schaefer saw the bare, rocky ground once covered by ice.
The spring 2020 EarthTalks series, "Societal Problems, EESI Science towards Solutions," features scientists from Penn State’s Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) and explores the human impacts on the global environment and how to apply this knowledge to decision-making.
Penn State researchers in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering received a $400,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to research coal dust in underground mines and its effect on lung disease in miners.
Andrew Kleit, professor of energy and environmental economics at Penn State recently received a United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE) Senior Fellow Award at the USAEE annual conference in Denver, held in November.
For the first time, the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has Millennium Scholars in all class levels — from graduating seniors to first-year students.
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Michael Cronin, and Russell Johns recently received awards from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) for the best paper published in 2018 in a SPE journal.
Penn State doctoral student Fengyuan Zhang was awarded the Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate Fellowship in petroleum engineering at the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ (SPE) Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 in Calgary, Canada.
The Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) announced the availability of seed grant funds intended to foster basic and applied interdisciplinary energy and environmental research.
The Penn State Alumni Association will honor 16 Penn Staters, including two graduates of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, on Oct. 23 with the Alumni Fellow Award, the highest award given by the Alumni Association.