Our graduate students are integral to the research we conduct, and they also are dedicated to making a difference in communities. Learn more about their research, outreach efforts, and other projects below.
Underground fiber optic sensors record sounds of COVID lockdown, reopening
06/28/2021
06/28/2021
New research reveals how residents in one community returned to their routines as COVID-19 restrictions lifted, according to a team of Penn State scientists.
University award fuels graduate student's love for teaching
06/10/2021
06/10/2021
Saumya Vaishnava, a doctoral student in the Penn State Department of Geography, has received a 2021 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award, which is sponsored jointly by the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President and Dean for Undergraduate Education.
Graduate student finalists show their work during research pitch competition
06/07/2021
06/07/2021
Six Penn State graduate students involved in materials or engineering research presented a concise rundown of their research, in two minutes or less, for judges from companies including PPG, Corning, Dow and Murata at the finals of the Millennium Cafe PPG Elevator Pitch Competition on May 18.
Climate change a bigger threat to landscape biodiversity than emerald ash borer
06/07/2021
06/07/2021
Despite the devastating impact the emrald ash borer has had on forests in the eastern and midwestern parts of the U.S., climate change will have a much larger and widespread impact on these landscapes through the end of the century, according to researchers.
Researchers awarded grant to advance geothermal energy science
06/02/2021
06/02/2021
Penn State scientists are working to predict possible breaks in massve underground reservoirs that store geothermal energy and how to mitigate the potential fallout.
Five Earth and Mineral Sciences students awarded at Graduate Research Exhibition
04/29/2021
04/29/2021
Amy Farley grew up in a small Texas town around a farming family, and she's seen the increasing presence of technology in the agriculture industry yield a new crop -- data.
Sustainability awards recognize student leadership, commitment
04/21/2021
04/21/2021
This month, Penn State's Sustainability Institute (SI) and the Student Sustainability Advisory Council (SSAC) honored six Penn State students for their leadership and commitment to sustainability throughout their time at Penn State.
'Dead clades walking': Fossil record provides new insights into mass extinctions
04/20/2021
04/20/2021
Mass extinctions are known as times of global upheaval, causing rapid losses in biodiversity that wipe out entire animal groups. Some of the doomed groups linger on before going extinct, and a team of scientists found these "dead clades walking" (DCW) are more common and long-lasting than expected.
EarthTalks seminar discusses human heat stress, politics of climate change
01/26/2021
01/26/2021
James Kasting, Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences at Penn State, will discuss the dangers of human heat stress and the politics of climate change at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1 as part of the EarthTalks series.
Virtual EarthTalks series focuses on policies, technology to slow global warming
01/19/2021
01/19/2021
The spring 2021 EESI EarthTalks series, "Energy and climate policy: How to avoid a global hothouse," will address questions related to carbon taxes, renewable energy subsidies and the feasibility of carbon sequestration, among other topics.