Our graduate students are integral to the research we conduct, and they also are dedicated to making a difference in communities. Learn more about their research, outreach efforts, and other projects below.
Materials Research Institute names 2024 Roy Award winners
12/03/2024
12/03/2024
Six Penn State materials researchers have received the 2024 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award, recognizing a wide range of research with societal impact.
New approach improves models of atmosphere on early Earth, exo-planets
11/18/2024
11/18/2024
A new approach for modeling solar radiation may improve our understanding of the atmosphere on early Earth and help in the search for habitable conditions on planets beyond our solar system.
EMS graduate student network continues to improve experiences for peers
10/21/2024
10/21/2024
An effort that began three years ago in the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) is helping to elevate the experiences of graduate students within the college.
University fellowships awarded to 110 graduate students
10/10/2024
10/10/2024
The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State named 110 graduate students as recipients of the 2024-25 University Graduate Fellowships and Distinguished Graduate Fellowships.
Revamping an old technique to see battery design in a new way
10/04/2024
10/04/2024
Batteries power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles. Penn State and industry researchers have developed a method, which could potentially reveal new ways to improve battery efficiency and lifespan.
NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant announces fellowship, scholarship winners for 2024
09/03/2024
09/03/2024
Seventeen graduate students from Penn State have been awarded research fellowships and six undergraduate students from the commonwealth have been awarded scholarships for 2024 from the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC).
Geography student secures $150K NASA grant for ice sheet meltwater research
08/26/2024
08/26/2024
Mahsa Bahrami, a doctoral student in Penn State’s Department of Geography, has been awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grant to fund her research on meltwater lakes at the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet.
Grad students hone field, lab geobiology skills in global course
08/26/2024
08/26/2024
Department of Geosciences hosted International Geobiology Course, an immersive and interdisciplinary course that explores how microbial life and the Earth have shaped each other.
Doctoral candidate awarded Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship
07/22/2024
07/22/2024
Penn State graduate student Erik Schoonover, a doctoral candidate in geosciences in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, was recently awarded the Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship Award.
Penn State student awarded Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scholarship
07/16/2024
07/16/2024
Joy Adul, a graduate student in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State, was one of 20 students selected to receive a scholarship from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scholarship Programme.