Graduate Student Doctoral candidate awarded Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship 07/22/2024 Penn State graduate student Erik Schoonover, a doctoral candidate in geosciences in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, was recently awarded the Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship Award. |
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Research Message in a bottle: Combining mixed-color glass an option to boost recycling 07/22/2024 Penn State scientists recently found that mass-produced soda-lime silicate glass from post-consumer bottles of different colors can be safely melted together in the recycling process, which could potentially lead to more bottles being recycled. |
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Alumni Five new members appointed to Earth and Mineral Sciences alumni board 07/18/2024 The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has announced the appointment of five new members to the Graduates of Earth and Mineral Sciences (GEMS) board of directors, effective July 1. |
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Graduate Student Penn State student awarded Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scholarship 07/16/2024 Joy Adul, a graduate student in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State, was one of 20 students selected to receive a scholarship from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scholarship Programme. |
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Faculty Emerging research areas refocus Institute of Energy and the Environment themes 07/11/2024 The Institute of Energy and the Environment has announced an update to its research themes. The change is to better align three of the research themes with the energy and environmental research being done at Penn State, and with efforts to recognize the importance of community and justice. |
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Faculty Cindy Brewer named College of IST’s associate dean for faculty affairs 07/09/2024 Cindy Brewer has been named associate dean for faculty affairs in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), effective Aug. 1. She has served as a faculty member in the Department of Geography in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) since 1994, earning the rank of professor in 2007. |
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Faculty Luis F. Ayala appointed head of Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering 07/09/2024 Luis F. Ayala, professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering and holder of the William A. Fustos Family Professorship in Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State, assumed the head of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State, effective July 1. |
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Sending a 'We Are!' to Kayla Pedmo 07/08/2024 Kayla Pedmo, academic program coordinator in the Ryan Family Student Center, is 1 of13 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University. |
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Research Making rechargeable batteries more sustainable with fully recyclable components 07/08/2024 Enrique Gomez and his research team reconfigured the design of solid-state lithium batteries so that all their components can be easily recycled. |
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Student Storm-chasing trip offers Penn State students classroom lessons on the road 07/08/2024 Early in a 10-day trip to the Midwest, Penn State;s Storm Chase Team had the opportunity to observe and study severe weather events. On the last day of the storm chase, the team targeted Central Texas. They chased two supercells, observed supercell structure and saw a rotating wall cloud. |