Geography certificates offer customized degrees for undergraduates
Penn State students who want to customize their bachelor’s degree in geography, add a specific topic in geography to their major, or enhance their career as a non-degree student can now complete undergraduate certificates in geography.
Energy and mineral engineering to host annual research showcase Oct. 3
The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering will host its annual research showcase, “Rising to the Challenge,” from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Graduate State College Regency Ballroom in State College.
Fall Research Unplugged speaker series returns to Schlow Library starting Oct. 3
Research Unplugged, the popular series of stimulating conversations with Penn State researchers, returns to Schlow Centre Region Library in October.
Model helps choose wind farm locations, predicts output
The wind is always blowing somewhere, but deciding where to locate a wind farm is a bit more complicated than holding up a wet finger. Now a team of Penn State researchers have a model that can locate the best place for the wind farm and even help with 24-hour predictions of energy output.
The new geographers: Six faculty hires are driving the future of the field
Six new tenure-line geography faculty started this fall in the Department of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
New research details first days after asteroid strike that killed off dinosaurs
Researchers have found new evidence that supports the theory that an that an asteroid impact led to the demise of the dinosaurs, painting the clearest picture yet of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
Drawdown Scholars returning to Penn State for international conference
Undergraduate students from across the country are returning to Penn State next week for the first international conference on the science of drawdown, the point at which greenhouse gases in the atmosphere begin to decline.
Museum director takes over with eye on expansion
Jane Cook, new director of the Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Museum & Art Gallery, plans a series of updates and advances.
Quantum leap: DOE grant aims to speed software development for quantum materials
Better understanding quantum materials and translating that knowledge to practical technologies is the focus of a new $2.75 million Penn State-led project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
New graduate, undergraduate student groups strive to increase museum involvement
Two new College of Earth and Mineral Science’s (EMS) student groups were recently formed to strengthen the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery’s connection to the college, the University and local communities.