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. |
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Faculty Graduate students awarded 2022 NASA Space Grant Fellowships 06/30/2022 Seventeen Penn State graduate students have received 2022 NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant awards and been named graduate fellows. |
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Faculty Cervone named to inaugural cohort of AGU Local Science Partners program 06/29/2022 The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has named Guido Cervone, professor of geography, meteorology and atmospheric science and associate director of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State, to the inaugural cohort of the organization’s Local Science Partners program. |
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Research Laser writing may enable ‘electronic nose’ for multi-gas sensor 06/29/2022 Environmental sensors are a step closer to simultaneously sniffing out multiple gases that could indicate disease or pollution, thanks to a Penn State collaboration. |
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Faculty California’s Dixie Fire shows impact of legacy effects, prescribed burns 06/27/2022 Fire history largely determined how severely the 2021 Dixie Fire burned, and low-severity fire treatments had the largest impact on reducing the worst effects of the fire, according to a Penn State-led research team. |
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Graduate Student Army Corps of Engineers officer is the 2022 Murphy Award recipient 06/22/2022 A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who is a Penn State World Campus student has received this year’s Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the geospatial intelligence community. |
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Popular Traditional American Indian Powwow to return in person June 25-26 06/22/2022 The popular Penn State Traditional American Indian Powwow — considered one of the finest traditional American Indian powwows in or outside of Indian Country — returns as an in-person, two-day event this weekend, June 25-26. |
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Student Energy 'crisis' brings engineering students face-to-face leadership experience 06/15/2022 One recent evening, three student teams shuffled into the Steidle Building and were swiftly handed a detailed corporate briefing on Blue Vector Gas, a fictitious national pipeline company. For this capstone course experience, students spent the next 21 hours assuming the role of company leaders. |
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Faculty Institutes partner on seed grants to promote computational climate research 06/15/2022 The Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) and the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences’ (ICDS) Research Innovations with Scientists and Engineers (RISE) team are working together to use computational power and human expertise to support research projects that can help create solutions affecting the climate and environment. |
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Faculty Geosciences professor named director of Penn State planetary science consortium 06/14/2022 Christopher House, professor of geosciences, will serve as director of the Consortium for Planetary and Exoplanetary Sciences and Technology (CPEST) at Penn State, effective July 1. |