A new Penn State initiative will focus on climate change and how extreme weather events impact human health, especially in underserved populations across the globe.
Penn State has established a consortium focused on meeting the mounting challenges related to climate change.
In celebration of the 40th anniversary for “Weather World,” the Penn State Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science’s weekday television broadcast, the department is calling attention to a fund that helps make the show possible.
Lauren Zarzar, associate professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, has been named one of seven recipients for the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship.
The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and the Penn State community mourn the loss of Charles L. Hosler, for whom the Hosler Building on the University Park campus and the Hosler Oak at the Penn State Arboretum are named. Hosler died on Sunday, Oct. 29. He was 99 years old.
Shimin Liu, professor of energy and mineral engineering and the Thomas V. and Jean C. Falkie Mining Engineering Faculty Fellow at Penn State, received the Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial award from the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) for the best paper published in AIME's fields.
Since 2017, Ana de la Fuente Duran has had her eyes fixed on one goal: Becoming a materials scientist.
Penn State Sustainability and Penn State’s Water Council will relaunch their "Soundings" water film series for 2023-24 at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15, with an online screening of "Flood Bound," a film focused on community resilience in the face of flash flooding in the Appalachian region, followed by a post-film panel featuring Penn State faculty and emergency management experts from Vermont.
Existing fiber optic cables used for high-speed internet and telecommunications, in combination with machine learning, may be able to help scientists track ground hazards in Pittsburgh. Tieyuan Zhu is leading an NSF $937,000 grant to further develop the low-cost monitoring approach.
Microfossils from Western Australia may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, according to an international team of scientists