Student College of EMS to participate in State College Pride Parade and Festival 06/04/2024 June is National Pride Month in the United States, and in support on Saturday, June 8, the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) will participate in the State College Pride Parade and Festival, hosted by Centre LGBT+. |
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Student Geography doctoral student receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 06/03/2024 Lily Houtman, a doctoral student in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Department of Geography at Penn State, has been selected as a 2024 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awardee. |
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Research Architecture team receives grant to study 3D-printed sustainable materials 06/03/2024 An interdisciplinary Penn State team is working to decrease emissions by producing new sustainable architectural materials using mycelium, which is the root of fungi. |
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Research 'Growing Impact' discusses the complex underground process of carbon storage 06/03/2024 The latest episode of the "Growing Impact" podcast explores the process of injecting carbon dioxide underground and mineralizing it to permanently sequester the gas, a path toward reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate change. |
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Research Youth perspectives study on sustainability funded by EMS Sustainability Council 05/31/2024 Researchers in Penn State’s Department of Geography have been awarded $12,000 in funding from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Sustainability Council for their project, "Youth Perspectives on Sustainability in the College of EMS." |
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Faculty Paul Markowski named 2024 BTAA Department Executive Officer Fellow 05/30/2024 Paul Markowski named a Big Ten Academic Alliance's (BTAA) Department Executive Officers (DEO) program Fellow. |
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Faculty Trevor Birkenholtz named 2024 BTAA Academic Leadership Fellow 05/30/2024 Trevor Birkenholtz named 2024-25 Big Ten Academic Alliance's (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program Fellow |
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Faculty Penn State professor awarded American Chemical Society grant 05/30/2024 Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey, assistant professor of chemistry and of materials science and engineering at Penn State, has been awarded an American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Doctoral New Investigator Grant. |
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Student Julia Liu named undergraduate National Olmsted Scholar 05/29/2024 Liu is an integrated undergraduate-graduate student who is pursuing both a bachelor of landscape architecture and a bachelor of science in meteorology and atmospheric science. This is the highest award for landscape architecture students. |
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Research Penn State part of $6.6M consortium to improve weather forecasting 05/23/2024 Researchers at Penn State are part of a multi-university team selected to receive $6.6 million in recommended funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The group will establish a new multi-university data assimilation consortium to improve weather forecasts using enhanced numerical weather prediction systems. |