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 Sunday, April 24.
Camila Van Oost has been named the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' student marshal, the top graduate overall, and Catherine Kohlman has been named the college's science honor marshal, the top graduate in a non-engineering discipline.
Qing Wang and Clive Randall, professors in the Penn State Department of Materials Science and Engineering, were named 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellows.
Energy Days returns this May with a focus on the theme "Mobilizing Energy and Climate Solutions." The conference will occur on May 25 and 26 at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center on the University Park campus of Penn State.
Penn State professors Clive Randall and T.C. Mike Chung have been named 2021 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
The Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) awarded seed grants to 21 groups of interdisciplinary researchers at Penn State for the 2021-22 cycle.
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 in June.
The first study of leaf fossils conducted in the nation of Brunei on the island of Borneo has revealed that the current dominant tree group, the dipterocarps, has dominated the rainforests for at least four million years, according to an international research team led by Penn State in partnership with Universiti Brunei Darussalam.
George Luxbacher, deputy associate director for mining at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) will give the 2022 G. Albert Shoemaker Lecture in Mineral Engineering at Penn State.
Penn State professor Long-Qing Chen recently received the 2022 FMD John Bardeen Award from the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).