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Sending a 'We Are!' to Lynn Persing — Week of July 29 07/29/2024 Lynn Persing, administrative support manager in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, was recognized as an employee who has gone above and beyond what’s asked of her in their work at the University. |
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Student Michael Johnson named summer 2024 College of Earth and Mineral Sciences marshal 07/23/2024 Michael Johnson, a Doylestown, Pennsylvania native, has been named the student marshal for the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ summer 2024 commencement ceremony, which will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10, in the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus. |
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Research New NSF-funded center established to lead geologic CO2 storage innovation 07/23/2024 NSF funding to establish a center for CO2 Storage Modeling, Analytics, and Risk Reduction Technologies, whch will be dedicated to innovation in geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide as a technology to enable industrial decarbonization at scale. |
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Research $1.1M ARPA-E award to fund project exploring potential of geologic hydrogen 07/23/2024 Penn State to receive $1.1 million from DOE- ARPA-e to support early-stage research and development to advance low-cost, low-emissions production of geologic hydrogen. |
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Alumni Laughs ring in Earth and Mineral Sciences alumni society 30th anniversary 07/23/2024 The Graduates of Earth and Mineral Sciences (GEMS), the college’s alumni society, recently celebrated its 30th anniversary with a comedy roast at the State Theatre in State College. |
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Faculty Professor Andrew Nyblade steps down as head of geosciences 07/23/2024 Department of Geosciences sustained research success and improved diversity amid pandemic under his leadership. Nyblade stepped down from role effective July 1, 2024. |
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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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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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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. |
