To coincide with the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ (EMS) 125th anniversary celebration, the EMS Museum & Art Gallery is unveiling a new exhibit on Friday, Oct. 14, dedicated to Evan Pugh, a science pioneer and Penn State's first president.
While examining thin sections of rocks in a microscope, Angelina Santamaria saw both research and art.
Did you know that there are dozens of museums and collections across the University Park campus?
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.
The Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Museum & Art Gallery has secured the fourth in a series of grants totaling $450,000 from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, which will be used to continue the effort to securely store some of the museum's collections.
A newly discovered fossil deposit near Kunming, China, may hold the keys to understanding howv organisms laid the foundations for life on land and at sea today, according to an international team of researchers.
Penn State University Libraries have recognized seven outstanding faculty and staff, including Aaron Procious, a staff member at the Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library.
For most people, starting a job during a global pandemic can prove difficult. But for museum collections managers, it turns out, things aren't all bad.
Steel towns. Mines. Factories. Places like these, once the lifeblood of the industrial economy in Pennsylvania, have since become artifacts of our state's history.
The Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Museum and Art Gallery on the ground floor of Deike Building at University Park will extend its hours to be open prior to Penn State home football games.
