Faculty Weather-triggered asthma topic of Department of Geography 'Coffee Hour' talk 09/29/2023 Luke Smith, assistant research professor and environmental epidemiologist at Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute, will discuss "Thunderstorms, Pollen and Severe Asthma in Minnesota 2007-18: Combining Data," at the Department of Geography's Coffee Hour lecture series. |
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Faculty Registration open for 2023 Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium 09/29/2023 Registration for the fall 2023 Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) Symposium is now underway. |
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Faculty Q&A: Searching for life where it shouldn’t exist 09/26/2023 A team of Penn State scientists is working to solve one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries: how life originated on Earth — and how it might have evolved on other planets. |
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Student Club fosters diversity, community, professionalism in Earth and Mineral Sciences 09/26/2023 Khaleah Jackson arrived at Penn State three years ago as a shy, quiet student. Once on campus, she found a new club — Minorities in Earth and Mineral Sciences (MEMS) — that helped her come out of her shell socially and in developing her professional skill set, she said. |
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Graduate Student EMS doctoral alum receives national 2023 Rong Yu Wan Ph.D. Dissertation Award 09/26/2023 Behzad Vaziri Hassas received the 2023 Rong Yu Wan Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Metallurgical Engineering from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME). |
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Faculty Fossils show widespread plant extinctions after asteroid wiped out dinosaurs 09/26/2023 Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of San Francisco crashed into a shallow sea off the coast of modern-day Mexico and plunged the world into an extinction event that killed off as much as 75% of life, including the dinosaurs. |
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Faculty Penn State honored for 130-year commitment to weather data 09/26/2023 There’s no certainty in predicting the weather. But one thing is certain: Penn State’s commitment to gathering historic weather data. |
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New LionPATH option indicates courses with free or low-cost required texts 09/21/2023 A new search option added to LionPATH, Penn State’s student information system, for Spring 2024 indicates that a course section’s required texts costs are free or low-cost, or under $50. |
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Faculty Earth’s crust, tectonic plates gradually formed, geoscientists find 09/21/2023 The Earth’s crust continued a slow process of reworking for billions of years, rather than rapidly slowing its growth some 3 billion years ago, according to a Penn State-led research team. |
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Faculty Fall ‘Night at the Museums’ event scheduled for evening of Sept. 28 09/20/2023 The Penn State Museum Consortium will hold the fall 2023 "Night at the Museums" event on Thursday, Sept. 28. |