Bestselling author Heather McGhee to give free ethics lecture at Penn State 03/22/2024 Policy advocate and New York Times bestselling author Heather McGhee will deliver the Rock Ethics Institute’s 2024 Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics on March 28. Her book is the 2024 EMS Reads book selection. |
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Research Satellite data assimilation improves forecasts of severe weather 03/21/2024 In 2020, a line of severe thunderstorms unleashed powerful winds that caused billions in damages across the Midwest United States. A technique developed by Penn State scientists that incorporates satellite data could improve forecasts for similar severe weather events |
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Research Jennifer Lalli to present 2024 Richard E. Tressler Lecture on March 28 03/20/2024 Jennifer Lalli, president at NanoSonic Inc., will deliver the lecture “A Penn State polymer chemist’s role in the commercialization of green nanotechnology” at 3:05 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in 111 Wartik Laboratory on the Penn State University Park campus |
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Research Urban planning professor to speak on property speculation at next 'Coffee Hour' 03/18/2024 Rachel Weber, professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will present "Seizing the Means of Prediction: Why the Future Belongs to Property Speculators," at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, March 22, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. |
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Research Benefits, risks of a more electrified world to be discussed at April 15 workshop 03/18/2024 A workshop focusing on the rise of cross-border electricity interconnections — and the high stake challenges they introduce — will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m on Monday, April 15, in 603 Barron Innovation Hub. The workshop will also be available online via Zoom. |
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Research EarthTalks: Bader to discuss neighborhood integration, segregation on March 25 03/18/2024 Michael Bader, associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, will give the talk, “The negative space of neighborhood change: the dynamics of neighborhood integration and segregation in the past four decades,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 25 in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. |
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Research Backyard insect inspires invisibility devices, next gen tech 03/18/2024 Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, A Penn State team precisely replicated the complex geometry of these particles, called brochosomes, and elucidated a better understanding of how they absorb both visible and ultraviolet light. |
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Sustainability Energy manager attends Penn State to propel career with NASA 03/14/2024 Wes Norton is using the skills he’s acquiring through Penn State’s energy and sustainability policy program offered in the John A. Dutton Institute for Teaching and Learning Excellence in his careers as in building automation and management for a NASA contractor. |
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Research March 18 EarthTalks: Heat adaptation actions for cities to improve public health 03/13/2024 Benjamin Hobbs, the Theodore M. and Kay W. Schad Professor of Environmental Management; Rui Shi, doctoral student; and Ali Eyni, doctoral student, all at Johns Hopkins University, will give the talk, “City-HEAT (Heat Equity Adaptation Tool): A multi-objective, uncertainty-based planning framework for urban heat adaptation and management,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 18. |
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Research New device positions Penn State at the forefront of university research reactors 03/13/2024 The Penn State Radiation Science and Engineering Center (RSEC) recently received a small angle neutron scattering (SANS) device, a $9.8 million equipment donation from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany. The arrival of the SANS equipment makes Penn State the first and only U.S. university research reactor to have SANS capability, according to RSEC researchers. |