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EEEPI Seminar: Lucy Page to discuss large-scale carbon labeling on Feb. 26
Lucy Page, assistant professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, will give the talk, “Got Beef with Beef? Evidence from a Large-Scale Carbon Labeling Experiment,” at noon. on Wednesday, Feb. 26, in 157 Hosler Building at Penn State University Park.
Feb. 24 EarthTalks: Cross-disciplinary collaboration employing stakeholder input
Camelia Kantor, associate director of strategic initiatives at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and associate research professor at Penn State, will give the talk, “Bridging Worlds: How Geography and Nematology Research Converge Through Stakeholder Input,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24, in 112 Walker Building at Penn State University Park. Talk will also be available via Zoom.
Coffee Hour lecture to examine COVID-19’s impact on Black women on probation
Felicia Henry, assistant professor of sociology at American University, will give the talk, "I Knew It Was COVID, I Knew I Was on Probation: Black Women Navigating Community Supervision During COVID-19," at the Department of Geography's spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series. Her talk will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 14, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus and via Zoom.
Feb. 17 EarthTalks: Translating STEM research to improve K-12 education
Kathleen Hill, director of the Center for Science and the Schools, and teaching professor of science education, will give the talk, “Center for Science and the Schools: Translating STEM Research to Improve K-12 Education,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. The talk also will be available via Zoom.
Seminar on flood insurance policies to be held Feb. 19
Steven Koller, postdoctoral fellow in climate and housing at Harvard University, will give the talk, “The Willingness to Pay for Vehicle Flood Insurance,” at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 19, in 157 Hosler Building on the University Park campus.
Feb. 12 EEEPI seminar: Effect of policies on groundwater resources in India
Shweta Bhogale, postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will give the talk, “Run on the Reservoir: Evidence on Administrative Competition for Groundwater in India,” at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 12, in 157 Hosler Building at Penn State University Park.
Energy and mineral engineering students attend South Africa Mining Conference
Three Penn State energy and mineral engineering doctoral students traveled 8,176 miles from University Park to South Africa to attend the Mintek@90 Conference last fall. Hosted by Mintek, one of South Africa's leading mineral research organizations, the group presented research and introduced Penn State as a strategic research partner to South African academic and industrial leaders.
Laifang Li to discuss North Atlantic cooling at Geography Coffee Hour
The Penn State Department of Geography will host Laifang Li, assistant professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Penn State, as part of its spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series. Li’s talk, "Changing Atmosphere Cools the Subpolar North Atlantic Throughout the Past Century," will explore why a region of the North Atlantic has been cooling for decades despite global warming.
New method for sustainable lithium extraction could reduce emissions by 75%
With an electric current and hydrogen peroxide, researchers at Penn State have developed a more efficient way to extract lithium, a key component in the batteries used in electric vehicles and portable electric devices, directly from ore found in the common mineral spodumene. The process could facilitate a 35.6% reduction in cost and a 75.3% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to traditional, less sustainable extraction methods, according to the team, led by Feifei Shi, assistant professor of energy engineering at Penn State.
EEEPI talk: Sustainable energy strategies for sub-Saharan Africa households
Pamela Jagger, an applied political economist whose research focuses on the dynamics of poverty and environment interactions in low-income countries, will give the talk, “Pathways to Household Energy Transitions in Africa,” at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 5, in 157 Hosler Building on Penn State's University Park campus. Her talk is part of the spring Initiative for Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (EEEPI) seminar series and is free and open to the public.