Faculty DOE-funded project investigates climate change effects on low-income housing 10/13/2022 Coastal cities such as Baltimore expect to see increased impacts of climate change, such as severe flooding, heat stress and increased energy consumption, particularly in low-income communities. |
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Alumni Philanthropy helps Penn State and Penn Staters to impact the world 10/13/2022 Students like Akhdan Mir, an energy engineering major and Millennium Scholar, are among the many taking on important challenges like the global need for safe, secure and abundant resources thanks to philanthropy through the impact of 'A Greater Penn State.' |
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Alumni Museum exhibit honors science life of Penn State’s first president, Evan Pugh 10/12/2022 To coincide with the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ (EMS) 125th anniversary celebration, the EMS Museum & Art Gallery is unveiling a new exhibit on Friday, Oct. 14, dedicated to Evan Pugh, a science pioneer and Penn State's first president. |
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Faculty University Libraries to host virtual Open Access Week panel on climate justice 10/12/2022 Penn State University Libraries will participate in the 14th annual global observation of Open Access Week, Oct. 24–30, by hosting a virtual panel of Penn State faculty at noon Tuesday, Oct. 25. |
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Faculty EarthTalks lecture to discuss large-scale solar trends, impacts and implications 10/12/2022 Tom Murphy, director of the Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research at Penn State, will give the talk "Utility Scale Solar and Pennsylvania – Trends, Impacts, and Implications" at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, in 112 Walker Building at University Park. |
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Faculty Computer games may be a key to ecological learning, study says 10/11/2022 Computer games are an effective way to teach ecological issues and build pro-environment policy support, according to published research by an interdisciplinary group of Penn State scholars. |
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Alumni Women in energy and water research seminar to feature Susan Altman on Oct. 13 10/11/2022 The fall 2022 Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research seminar series continues on Thursday, Oct. 13, with two seminars by Susan Altman, deputy to the Energy and Homeland Security Portfolio at Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy national lab. |
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Faculty Author Robin Wall Kimmerer to present 2022 Lattman Lecture 10/11/2022 Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the New York Times’ best-selling “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants,” will give the 2022 Lattman Visiting Scholar of Science and Society Lecture. |
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Faculty New equipment with air quality capabilities will be focus of webinar on Oct. 25 10/10/2022 The core facilities of the Institutes of Energy and the Environment, EESL (Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories), will host a webinar on a new piece of equipment that was added to EESL’s inventory, a high-resolution time-of-flight soot particle aerosol mass spectrometer. |
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Faculty Saltier sea water may predict heavy summer rains in the U.S. corn belt 10/10/2022 Farmers in the Midwest should care about the saltiness of ocean water thousands of miles from their fields, according to a team of scientists. |