Faculty Celebration held to honor former dean and director, William Ewart Easterling III 11/29/2023 Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and the Department of Geography recently hosted a celebration to honor William Easterling’s legacy of leadership to the University. |
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Student Fund promotes student experiences on award-winning show ‘Weather World’ 11/28/2023 In celebration of the 40th anniversary for “Weather World,” the Penn State Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science’s weekday television broadcast, the department is calling attention to a fund that helps make the show possible. |
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Faculty Professor receives Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship 11/16/2023 Lauren Zarzar, associate professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, has been named one of seven recipients for the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship. |
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Faculty Professor, recent alum win best paper from the Society of Petroleum Engineers 11/15/2023 Shimin Liu, professor of energy and mineral engineering and the Thomas V. and Jean C. Falkie Mining Engineering Faculty Fellow at Penn State, received the Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial award from the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) for the best paper published in AIME's fields. |
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Faculty Penn State mourns the loss of Charles L. Hosler 11/15/2023 The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and the Penn State community mourn the loss of Charles L. Hosler, for whom the Hosler Building on the University Park campus and the Hosler Oak at the Penn State Arboretum are named. Hosler died on Sunday, Oct. 29. He was 99 years old. |
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Alumni Millennium Scholars push closer to goals: Improving diversity in STEM 11/13/2023 Since 2017, Ana de la Fuente Duran has had her eyes fixed on one goal: Becoming a materials scientist. |
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Faculty First 2023-24 'Soundings' film screening to focus on Appalachian region flooding 11/09/2023 Penn State Sustainability and Penn State’s Water Council will relaunch their "Soundings" water film series for 2023-24 at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15, with an online screening of "Flood Bound," a film focused on community resilience in the face of flash flooding in the Appalachian region, followed by a post-film panel featuring Penn State faculty and emergency management experts from Vermont. |
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Faculty Using machine learning, existing fiber optic cables to track Pittsburgh hazards 11/09/2023 Existing fiber optic cables used for high-speed internet and telecommunications, in combination with machine learning, may be able to help scientists track ground hazards in Pittsburgh. Tieyuan Zhu is leading an NSF $937,000 grant to further develop the low-cost monitoring approach. |
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Faculty Window to the past: New microfossils suggest earlier rise in complex life 11/07/2023 Microfossils from Western Australia may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, according to an international team of scientists |
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Faculty Melting ice falling snow: Sea ice declines enhance snowfall over West Antarctica 11/07/2023 As the world continues to warm, Antarctica is losing ice at an increasing pace, but the loss of sea ice may lead to more snowfall over the ice sheets, partially offsetting contributions to sea level rise, according to Penn State scientists. |