Faculty Professor selected as Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer 11/16/2022 Arash Dahi Taleghani, professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering, will serve as a 2022-23 Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer. |
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Faculty Fossil fuel past, green future: Abandoned wells may offer geothermal power 11/15/2022 Tapping into abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania, products of the state’s long history of energy extraction — could provide a future source of affordable geothermal energy, according to Penn State scientists. |
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Faculty EarthTalks: Cornell researcher to discuss co-locating solar arrays on farmland 11/09/2022 Niko Kochendoerfer, a postdoctoral fellow in animal sciences at Cornell University, will deliver the talk "Effect of sheep stocking rate on ecosystem parameters in ground-mounted solar arrays " at 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 14. |
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Penn State employees and staff share ‘Profiles of Service’ 11/09/2022 Penn State’s 11th annual Military Appreciation Week honors all active-duty and veteran service members and this year highlights University faculty and staff members who serve or have served in the U.S. armed forces. |
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Faculty Penn State to hold second annual Solar Symposium 11/07/2022 The second annual Penn State Solar Law Symposium will be held via webinar from noon to 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 16. |
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Faculty $1.5 million grant awarded to team studying impacts of land abandonment 11/02/2022 Two Penn State researchers received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation through the Belmont Forum to study actual and perceived impacts of land abandonment on the sustainability of soil and water resources. |
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Faculty Fighting fire with fire: Study gauges public perception of prescribed burns 11/01/2022 A new study may fill in gaps in understanding public perception toward prescribed burns in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, where these fires are increasingly used, according to scientists. |
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Faculty Coffee Hour talk to discuss the impact of Arctic cyclones on sea ice 11/01/2022 Linette Boisvert, sea ice scientist in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Cryospheric Sciences Branch, will give the talk “It’s Complicated: The Complex Relationship of Cyclones on Arctic Sea Ice” at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4, in 112 Walker Building. |
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Faculty Women in energy and water research seminar to feature Maša Prodanović on Nov. 3 10/31/2022 The Fall 2022 Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research seminar series continues on Thursday, Nov. 3 with two seminars by Maša Prodanović, Frank W. Jessen Professor in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. |
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Faculty Nuclear engineer appointed to national fusion energy advisory committee 10/27/2022 Jean Paul Allain, Huck Chair Professor and head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering and an associate professor of materials science and engineering, was appointed to serve on the Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee. |