The Graduate School at Penn State welcomes 20 new National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recipients for the 2023-24 academic year.
Long-Qing Chen, Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected as a foreign member of the Academia Europaea for his “pioneering contributions to the development and applications of phase-field method to understanding and predicting materials microstructure and property evolution.”
Cynthia Brewer, professor of geography at Penn State, has been awarded the 2023 Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal by the International Cartographic Association (ICA).
A recent collaborative event by two groups on campus netted roughly 5,700 items for incoming students while saving 471 pounds of food and supplies from the landfill.
A team of Penn State researchers has received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to spearhead a new initiative to create novel monitoring systems for insect populations, many of which are experiencing dramatic changes across the globe due to changes in land use, pollution and climate change.
When the ground rumbles in Antarctica, it may be an icequake — like an earthquake but caused by the movement of ice, not rock. A new study by Penn State researchers found that these seismic events are driven by ocean tides at a major ice stream in West Antarctica.
Three communications students learned valuable career and life skills during their internships with the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE) at Penn State.
Geosciences student Halina Dingo represented the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences as the student marshal for Penn State's summer commencement.
"Weather World," the Penn State Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science’s weekday 15-minute weather broadcast, is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Julie Michelle Klinger, assistant professor of geography and spatial science at the University of Delaware, will kick off the Penn State Department of Geography’ fall 2023 "Coffee Hour" lecture series with the talk, “Wasting and wanting: an extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies.”