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The 17th annual Materials Visualization Competition, an annual scientific and artistic visual competition sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute, is now accepting submissions through March 7.
Lucy Page, assistant professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, will give the talk, “Got Beef with Beef? Evidence from a Large-Scale Carbon Labeling Experiment,” at noon. on Wednesday, Feb. 26, in 157 Hosler Building at Penn State University Park.
Camelia Kantor, associate director of strategic initiatives at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and associate research professor at Penn State, will give the talk, “Bridging Worlds: How Geography and Nematology Research Converge Through Stakeholder Input,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24, in 112 Walker Building at Penn State University Park. Talk will also be available via Zoom.
Felicia Henry, assistant professor of sociology at American University, will give the talk, "I Knew It Was COVID, I Knew I Was on Probation: Black Women Navigating Community Supervision During COVID-19," at the Department of Geography's spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series. Her talk will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 14, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus and via Zoom.
Kathleen Hill, director of the Center for Science and the Schools, and teaching professor of science education, will give the talk, “Center for Science and the Schools: Translating STEM Research to Improve K-12 Education,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. The talk also will be available via Zoom.
Steven Koller, postdoctoral fellow in climate and housing at Harvard University, will give the talk, “The Willingness to Pay for Vehicle Flood Insurance,” at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 19, in 157 Hosler Building on the University Park campus.
Shweta Bhogale, postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will give the talk, “Run on the Reservoir: Evidence on Administrative Competition for Groundwater in India,” at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 12, in 157 Hosler Building at Penn State University Park.
The Penn State Department of Geography will host Laifang Li, assistant professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Penn State, as part of its spring 2025 Coffee Hour lecture series. Li’s talk, "Changing Atmosphere Cools the Subpolar North Atlantic Throughout the Past Century," will explore why a region of the North Atlantic has been cooling for decades despite global warming.
If Luke Snyder could look back on themself just a few years ago, what they see would be unrecognizable.
Pamela Jagger, an applied political economist whose research focuses on the dynamics of poverty and environment interactions in low-income countries, will give the talk, “Pathways to Household Energy Transitions in Africa,” at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 5, in 157 Hosler Building on Penn State's University Park campus. Her talk is part of the spring Initiative for Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (EEEPI) seminar series and is free and open to the public.