Read the latest news about research conducted by investigators in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. Our faculty and students are continually advancing technology, creating solutions and expanding knowledge with new and innovative research.
04/03/2024
Penn State recently launched the Silicon Carbide Innovation Alliance (SCIA), a coalition of industry leaders, academic institutions and government support with a focus on becoming the nation's central hub for research, development and workforce training in silicon SiC crystal technology.
04/03/2024
Penn State researchers were recently awarded funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a new coupled watershed-estuary model that simulates the transport and fate of major salt ions.
03/25/2024
Kirsten Koehler, associate professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, will give the talk, “Low-cost sensors for environmental health applications,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, April 1, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus.
03/21/2024
In 2020, a line of severe thunderstorms unleashed powerful winds that caused billions in damages across the Midwest United States. A technique developed by Penn State scientists that incorporates satellite data could improve forecasts for similar severe weather events
03/20/2024
Jennifer Lalli, president at NanoSonic Inc., will deliver the lecture “A Penn State polymer chemist’s role in the commercialization of green nanotechnology” at 3:05 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in 111 Wartik Laboratory on the Penn State University Park campus
03/18/2024
Rachel Weber, professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will present "Seizing the Means of Prediction: Why the Future Belongs to Property Speculators," at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, March 22, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus.
03/18/2024
A workshop focusing on the rise of cross-border electricity interconnections — and the high stake challenges they introduce — will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m on Monday, April 15, in 603 Barron Innovation Hub. The workshop will also be available online via Zoom.
03/18/2024
Michael Bader, associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, will give the talk, “The negative space of neighborhood change: the dynamics of neighborhood integration and segregation in the past four decades,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 25 in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus.
03/18/2024
Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, A Penn State team precisely replicated the complex geometry of these particles, called brochosomes, and elucidated a better understanding of how they absorb both visible and ultraviolet light.
03/13/2024
Benjamin Hobbs, the Theodore M. and Kay W. Schad Professor of Environmental Management; Rui Shi, doctoral student; and Ali Eyni, doctoral student, all at Johns Hopkins University, will give the talk, “City-HEAT (Heat Equity Adaptation Tool): A multi-objective, uncertainty-based planning framework for urban heat adaptation and management,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 18.