Lise Nelson, professor in the School of Geography, Development and Environment at the University of Arizona, will deliver a talk titled “Amenity Migration, Gentrification and Illegality in Rural America” at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 17, in 112 Walker Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

Robert Roth, professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and director of the UW Cartography Lab, will deliver a talk at noon on Friday, April 10, in 401 Steidle Building Penn State University Park.

Susanna B. Berkouwer, an assistant professor of business economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, will give the talk, “Green subsidies with demand distortions,” at noon on Wednesday, April 8, in 157 Hosler Building at Penn State University Park.

The Center for Glass Research and the Materials Research Institute’s (MRI) Materials Characterization Lab (MCL) will hold a webinar titled “Optimizing Glass Surfaces for Manufacturing: From Root Causes to Real Solutions” on Wednesday, April 8, from 1 to 2 p.m.

Penn State has named the inaugural Innovation to Impact Awards recipients, recognizing faculty, researchers, entrepreneurs and partners whose work exemplifies the University’s commitment to translating research into real-world impact.

For undergraduate student Amaya Heffelfinger, sustainability is more than a topic in the classroom. She said it is tied to the places where she grew up, the environmental questions she cares about and the kind of work she hopes to do in the future.

Gabriel Agostini, doctoral student in information science at Cornell Tech, will give a talk, “Inferring Fine-Grained Migration Patterns across the United States,” at noon on Wednesday, April 1, in 157 Hosler Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

 Xiaoyong Zheng, professor of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University, will give a talk, “The Unintended Consequences of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Sales and Prices of Beer Beverages,” at noon on Wednesday, March 25.

The inaugural Penn State-Ghana Research Partnerships Seed Grant Program has awarded nine projects including three researchers from EMS.

Accurate air quality forecasts are critical for helping people limit exposure and for guiding regulatory action. However, a new study led by Fan Wu, a doctoral student in meteo, suggests some of the computer models that agencies rely on may not be getting it right.