Two Penn State researchers received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation through the Belmont Forum to study actual and perceived impacts of land abandonment on the sustainability of soil and water resources.
A new study may fill in gaps in understanding public perception toward prescribed burns in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, where these fires are increasingly used, according to scientists.
Linette Boisvert, sea ice scientist in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Cryospheric Sciences Branch, will give the talk “It’s Complicated: The Complex Relationship of Cyclones on Arctic Sea Ice” at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4, in 112 Walker Building.
The Fall 2022 Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research seminar series continues on Thursday, Nov. 3 with two seminars by Maša Prodanović, Frank W. Jessen Professor in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jean Paul Allain, Huck Chair Professor and head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering and an associate professor of materials science and engineering, was appointed to serve on the Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee.
A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars.
Nelson Dzade will discuss advances in thin-film solar cells in his talk titled "The interface is still the device: engineering it for enhanced thin film solar cell performance."
Kaitlyn Spangler, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography at Penn State, will discuss issues with the diversity of crops in her talk "Beyond corn, soy and wheat? Re-imagining a diverse U.S. agricultural landscape.”
Lisa Witzig has been appointed director of Penn State’s Center for Security Research and Education.
Dani Buchheister, a doctoral student in geobiology and astrobiology, is among Penn State’s 21 new National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program recipients — six in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences — for the 2022-23 academic year.