Faculty Social Science Research Institute introduces faculty fellows for 2023-24 02/06/2023 Emily T. Rosenman, assistant professor of geography, was one of five Penn State faculty members recently named Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) Mentored Faculty Fellows for 2023-24. |
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Faculty More frequent atmospheric rivers hinder seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice 02/06/2023 The Arctic is rapidly losing sea ice, even during winter months when temperatures are below freezing and ice should be recovering from the summer melt. |
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Faculty Penn State's Center for Critical Minerals to receive $2.1M for pilot program 02/03/2023 Penn State’s Center for Critical Minerals will receive $2.1 million in federal funding to design, build and test a modular pilot-scale research and development unit intended to recover vital rare earth elements and other critical minerals from Pennsylvania streams and other environmental sources. |
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Faculty Women in energy and water research seminar to feature Barbara Kutchko on Feb. 9 02/03/2023 The spring 2023 Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research seminar series continues Thursday, Feb. 9, with two seminars from Barbara Kutchko, a senior research scientist with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). |
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Faculty Study reveals new clues about how 'Earth's thermostat' controls climate 02/03/2023 Rocks, rain and carbon dioxide help control Earth’s climate over thousands of years — like a thermostat — through a process called weathering. |
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Faculty 'Growing Impact' podcast discusses making fuels from waste 02/02/2023 The latest episode of the Growing Impact podcast features a project focused on turning agricultural and municipal wastes into bioproducts, primarily low-carbon biofuels. |
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NASA engineer Moogega Cooper to present Black History Month keynote lecture 02/01/2023 Moogega Cooper, trailblazing engineer of the famed Mars rover Perseverance mission for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will present “Diversity in STEAM from a Real-Life Guardian of the Galaxy” at 5 p.m. on Feb. 23 in Berg Auditorium, 100 Huck Life Sciences Building, Penn State University Park. |
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Alumni EMS Sustainability Council hosting first-ever alumni panel discussion 02/01/2023 The student committee of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Sustainability Council will host its first alumni panel discussion, “Be the Change,” from 5 to 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb 6 in 603 Barron Innovation Hub. |
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Faculty EarthTalks: Alex Hayes to discuss possible life in the outer solar system 01/31/2023 Alex Hayes, associate professor of astronomy and director of the Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility at Cornell University, will review the current understanding and latest developments in the exploration of the ocean worlds Europa, Enceladus and Titan in his talk "Ocean worlds of the outer solar system: life as we know it or life as we don’t?" at 4 p.m., on Monday, Feb. 6. |
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Faculty Coffee Hour talk to discuss humanistic GIS opportunities and challenges 01/31/2023 Bo Zhao, an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, will give a talk at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, via Zoom.discussing his research that looks at GIS from a humanistic perspective, which offers a sincere quest to develop and use GIS in ways that will be more empathetic and better for humanity. |