Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) recognized exceptional students and faculty for their academic excellence, service and leadership during its annual Wilson Awards Celebration, held on March 29. The Wilson Awards are named in honor of Matthew and Anne Wilson, major benefactors of the college.
Sophia White, a sophomore majoring in geosciences, said she was drawn to Penn State because of her interest in the world around her, especially how the field of geosciences could better help scientists understand the interplay between land, water and life.
As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 20 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
Registration is now open for the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering’s annual "MINING ROCKS!" summer camp. The camp will be held on Penn State's University Park Campus on July 12–17. Coordinated by the Mining Engineering program, the five-day camp is designed for 20 high school students between the 10th and 12th grades to provide firsthand lab experience with mining technology and even includes a visit to a local mining company and quarry.
Christina McGranaghan, an assistant professor of applied economics at the University of Delaware, will give the talk, “Taking a Load Off: Experimental Evidence of Preferences for Control with an Application to Residential Electricity Demand,” at noon on Wednesday, April 22, in 157 Hosler Building on the Penn State University Park campus.
In a converted 2013 Toyota Sienna affixed with a hand-built telescopic weather device protruding from the roof, Penn State experts in meteorology and atmospheric science made their way down the nation’s eastern coast in June 2024 in search of Florida’s famed near-daily summer thunderstorms.
As he prepares to graduate in May, James Rowley is completing an honors thesis focused on one of the most remote and rapidly changing places on Earth: Antarctica. A Penn State Schreyer Honors Scholar majoring in geography and economics with a certificate in geographic information science, Rowley is studying uncertainty in satellite estimates of Antarctic surface hydrology as an undergraduate research assistant in Penn State’s Cryosphere and Climate Lab, led by Luke Trusel, associate professor of geography.
Superconductors — materials that can conduct electricity without energy loss — are crucial for next-generation high-efficiency, ultrafast electronics. However, most superconductors share a critical limitation: they lose their superconducting properties in strong magnetic fields.
A wide variety of Penn State museums and special galleries will be open to the public during the spring “Night at the Museums” event, scheduled from 4 to 8 p.m. on April 23.
The Communication, Science & Society Initiative (CSSI), a research partnership between Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences in the College of the Liberal Arts, has announced the grant recipients from its 2025 request for proposals.