Esther Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and architectural engineering, will give the talk, “Building SURE (Sustainable and Resilient) Communities,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 22.
David Stensrud, professor of meteorology, has been voted president-elect of the American Meteorological Society and will be inducted on, Jan. 28, during the 104th AMS Annual Meeting.
Chris Widga has been appointed as the new director of the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery, which boasts a vast and varied collection of roughly 20,000 items, from gemstones, to industrial safety equipment, to paintings of industry.
Moore's Law, a fundamental scaling principle for electronic devices, forecasts that the number of transistors on a chip will double every two years, ensuring more computing power — but a limit exists.
If you train your eyes on the vast rock outcroppings of the Rocky Mountains, you can see the remnants of our planet’s history.
Researchers at the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), together with collaborators at other institutions within Pennsylvania, have been awarded approximately $1.1 million in funding under the U.S. National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure program to develop a commonwealth-wide secure network and related cyberinfrastructure to interconnect Pennsylvania colleges and universities.
Penn State alum Beth Stump boarded a helicopter in Louisiana that buzzed across the Gulf of Mexico and landed on an oil drilling platform in the middle of the sea. There was no turning back — She was now a geoscientist.
Penn State’s One Health Microbiome Center will host the One Health Microbiome Symposium on May 30-31, 2024, at the Huck Life Sciences Building on the University Park campus.
The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) EarthTalks spring 2024 series, “Urban Systems Science,” will explore complex urban systems including interactions between tightly connected human and natural systems both within city boundaries and between cities and the surrounding rural environment. The seminars are scheduled for 4 p.m. on Mondays in 112 Walker Building. Seminars are free and open to the public.
Second- and third-year Penn State undergraduate students who are interested in interning for IBM Consulting through IBM’s Talent Pipeline Program at Innovation Park starting in late spring of 2024 are encouraged to attend an information session at 11 a.m. on Jan. 12 in Room 233AB of the HUB-Robeson Center.