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Faculty Virtual seminars to address the science and values in climate risk management 10/05/2020 The Science and Values in Climate Risk Management virtual seminar series will address the scientific and ethical sides of climate change research, policy analysis and the management of climate risks. |
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Student NASA Pa. Space Grant accepting undergraduate research internship applications 10/02/2020 The NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) is currently accepting applications to its undergraduate research internship programs. |
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Faculty Fossil carbon burned by asteroid impact contributed to dinosaur extinction 10/01/2020 An asteroid impact 66 million years ago may have released trillions of pounds of partially burned fossil carbon into Earth's upper atmosphere as a cloud of black soot, significantly contributing to the ensuing global darkness, cooling and mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to an international team of scientists. |
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Graduate Student Oct. 5 researcher panel to discuss AI for predictive science 09/29/2020 Artificial intelligence is affecting society worldwide, from improving medical diagnostic tools, to bolstering supply chains and refining weather forecasting, along with many more applications. Closer to home, Penn State researchers are also leveraging AI techniques in their work to advance their science. |
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Faculty Seminar to examine initiative’s effects on energy costs, power grid 09/29/2020 Pennsylvania is set to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state compact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power grid. |
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Student Four student teams use AI for good to win 2020 Nittany AI Challenge 09/29/2020 Nyansapo, OpenVessel, AI Guide and Cyclone are the winners of the 2020 Nittany AI Challenge. |
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Faculty Engineers investigate additive manufacturing quality control with grant from 3M 09/29/2020 An interdisciplinary team of researchers in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and College of Engineering was awarded a $180,000 grant to investigate comprehensive quality control methods for additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, of metals. |
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Faculty Fracking bill analysis reveals how states may influence each other's policies 09/29/2020 Even though State governments routinely rely upon interest groups to help them as they craft legislation, researchers found that certain peer-leader states, like Pennsylvania and Colorado, have greater influence in shaping states' fracking policies, in a study led by Penn State Professor of Geography Jennifer Baka. |
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Research Generating renewable hydrogen fuel from the sea 09/29/2020 The power of the sun, wind and sea may soon combine to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel, according to a team of Penn State researchers. |
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Faculty Zi-Kui Liu named inaugural Dorothy Pate Enright Professor 09/28/2020 Zi-Kui Liu, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Phases Research Laboratory, has been named the inaugural Dorothy Pate Enright Professor. |