After 11 years, struggles pay off for energy engineering graduate
At Penn State's spring commencement ceremony, when Avery Taylor fulfilled a long, often difficult journey to earning an energy engineering degree and began setting her sights on her next chapter, she cried seven times.
Penn State announces non-tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2022
Several faculty members in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences received non-tenure-line faculty promotions at Penn State, effective July 1, 2022.
NSF CAREER award to improve understanding on how porous materials fail
Yashar Mehmani, assistant professor in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, received a $629,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue an integrated modeling, experimental and educational plan to improve the basic understanding of failures in porous materials and develop a more accurate computational framework to predict them.
Graduate students awarded 2022 NASA Space Grant Fellowships
Seventeen Penn State graduate students have received 2022 NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant awards and been named graduate fellows.
Graduate students awarded 2022 NASA Space Grant Fellowships
Seventeen Penn State graduate students have received 2022 NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant awards and been named graduate fellows.
Laser writing may enable ‘electronic nose’ for multi-gas sensor
Environmental sensors are a step closer to simultaneously sniffing out multiple gases that could indicate disease or pollution, thanks to a Penn State collaboration.
Cervone named to inaugural cohort of AGU Local Science Partners program
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has named Guido Cervone, professor of geography, meteorology and atmospheric science and associate director of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State, to the inaugural cohort of the organization’s Local Science Partners program.
California’s Dixie Fire shows impact of legacy effects, prescribed burns
Fire history largely determined how severely the 2021 Dixie Fire burned, and low-severity fire treatments had the largest impact on reducing the worst effects of the fire, according to a Penn State-led research team.
Army Corps of Engineers officer is the 2022 Murphy Award recipient
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who is a Penn State World Campus student has received this year’s Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the geospatial intelligence community.
Popular Traditional American Indian Powwow to return in person June 25-26
The popular Penn State Traditional American Indian Powwow — considered one of the finest traditional American Indian powwows in or outside of Indian Country — returns as an in-person, two-day event this weekend, June 25-26.