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Faculty Evan Pugh Professor Susan Brantley to retire after 40 years at Penn State 12/02/2024 This summer, a group of Penn State professor Susan Brantley’s former graduate students organized a special session at the prestigious Goldschmidt Conference in Chicago to honor their mentor. |
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Faculty Penn State, Tohoku University eye further research partnership activities 12/02/2024 Tohoku University, one of Penn State's strategic partners, recently invited Lee Kump, dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and professor of geosciences at Penn State, to visit the university in Sendai, Japan. |
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Faculty Q&A: What fossils reveal about ancient Australian forests and fire 12/02/2024 Australia's forest ecosystems, renowned for their extraordinary diversity of rare plants and animals, also play a vital role in mitigating climate change by absorbing and storing carbon. |
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Faculty First Opportunity Grants awarded to faculty 11/26/2024 The new Opportunity Grant Professional Development Program awarded its first grants to 51 teaching and clinical non-tenure-line faculty, including one to Sekhar Bhattacharyya, associate teaching professor in EME. |
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Research Session proposals for 2025 Climate Solutions Symposium now being accepted 11/21/2024 The Penn State Climate Consortium has announced a call for breakout sessions for the 2025 Climate Solutions Symposium, taking place May 19-20, 2025, at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. |
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Development Alumni support puts Earth and Mineral Sciences closer to GivingTuesday goal 11/19/2024 EMS will be raising money to support the Millennium Scholars Program on GivingTuesday, slated to begin at 6:55 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 2, and lasting through 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3. |
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Graduate Student New approach improves models of atmosphere on early Earth, exo-planets 11/18/2024 A new approach for modeling solar radiation may improve our understanding of the atmosphere on early Earth and help in the search for habitable conditions on planets beyond our solar system. |
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Alumni Penn State mourns the loss of climate science pioneer, Warren M. Washington 11/18/2024 Warren M. Washington, acclaimed climate science pioneer and Penn State alumnus, died on Oct. 18 at the age of 88. He graduated with his doctorate in meteorology from Penn State in 1964 and was the second African American to earn a doctorate in meteorology nationwide. |
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Jack Kaye, NASA associate director, research, to give meteorology colloquium talk 11/12/2024 Jack Kaye, associate director for research at NASA, is the speaker for the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science’s colloquium scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. |
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Sustainability EarthTalks: Chief sustainability officer to discuss decarbonizing the University 11/11/2024 Lara Fowler, chief sustainability officer at Penn State, director of Penn State Sustainability, will give the talk, “Decarbonizing Penn State: How Does Law, Policy, and Financing Fit In?” |
