Faculty Seed grants to fund projects that tackle huge scientific, societal challenges 07/21/2022 Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences awarded this year’s seed grant program, offering funds to Penn State scientists to help them start research projects. |
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Graduate Student Geography graduate receives NSF fellowship to study trust in thematic maps 07/20/2022 Tim Prestby, an incoming doctoral student in the Department of Geography, received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study trust in thematic maps. |
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Faculty Smart chip senses, stores, computes and secures data in one low-power platform 07/19/2022 Securing digital data on handheld devices requires massive amounts of energy, according to an interdisciplinary group of Penn State researchers, who warn that securing these devices from bad actors is becoming a greater concern than ever before. |
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Faculty Water community introduces new council members, director of research 07/18/2022 The emerging Penn State Water Consortium announced personnel updates to the Penn State Water Council and the addition of a director of research. |
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New EMS museum collections manager brings exhibit experience as space reopens 07/14/2022 For the past few months, Patti Wood Finkle, the new collections manager, has been busy sifting through the EMS Museum & Art Gallery’s vast collection of roughly 20,000 items. |
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Graduate Student 21 graduate students receive National Science Foundation Grad Fellowship 07/12/2022 Students from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences were among the 21 new National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recipients for the 2022-23 academic year. |
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Faculty Thermally regenerative battery produces ample energy using low-grade waste heat 07/11/2022 A new process for creating thermally regenerative ammonia batteries improves their stability and affordability and may help address the country’s growing grid-scale energy storage problem, according to a team led by Penn State researchers. |
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Faculty Kimberly Lau to receive Young Scientist Award from Geological Society of America 07/06/2022 Kimberly Lau, an assistant professor in Penn State’s Department of Geosciences and an associate in the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, is being honored by the Geological Society of America (GSA) with its 2022 Donath Medal, or Young Scientist Award. |
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Student After 11 years, struggles pay off for energy engineering graduate 07/05/2022 At Penn State's spring commencement ceremony, when Avery Taylor fulfilled a long, often difficult journey to earning an energy engineering degree and began setting her sights on her next chapter, she cried seven times. |
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Faculty NSF CAREER award to improve understanding on how porous materials fail 06/30/2022 Yashar Mehmani, assistant professor in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, received a $629,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue an integrated modeling, experimental and educational plan to improve the basic understanding of failures in porous materials and develop a more accurate computational framework to predict them. |