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Faculty Michael Mann receives World Sustainability Award 09/14/2020 Michael E. Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State, will share the 2020 World Sustainability Award with Antonella Santuccione Chadha, co-founder and the CEO of the Women's Brain Project and global medical manager for Alzheimer's disease at Roche Diagnostics. |
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Faculty Five researchers join the Institutes of Energy and the Environment 09/14/2020 Five Penn State researchers have joined the Institutes of Energy and the Environment. This includes faculty members from the colleges of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Architecture, the Liberal Arts and Penn State Law. |
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Student Artificial intelligence takes center stage at Nittany AI Challenge Celebration 09/10/2020 The Penn State community is invited to virtually attend the Nittany AI Challenge Celebration, where nine student teams will present their minimum viable product for a chance to share in the remaining pool of $25,000 in funding. |
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Faculty Rezaee named outstanding young engineer 09/08/2020 Mohammad Rezaee, assistant professor of mining engineering in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, has been awarded the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration's (SME) Mineral and Metallurgical Processing Division. |
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Graduate Student Grad students explore atmospheric science, community at collaborative workshop 09/08/2020 Over the summer, three Penn State graduate students participated in a workshop focused on the planetary boundary layer (PBL). |
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Faculty Space Grant accepting grant applications for education, research and outreach 09/03/2020 The NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) is accepting applications for its 2020-21 competitive mini-grant program. |
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Faculty To make a better sensor, just add noise 09/03/2020 Adding noise to enhance a weak signal is a sensing phenomenon common in the animal world but unusual in manmade sensors. Now Penn State researchers have added a small amount of background noise to enhance very weak signals in a light source too dim to sense. |
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Faculty Bacastow appointed to US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation board of directors 09/01/2020 Todd Bacastow, teaching professor in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, has been appointed to the board of directors of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) for a three-year term. |
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Student Students learn the power of collective voice while advocating for justice 08/31/2020 Students discovered the power of community voice while working as interns over the summer through a social justice program facilitated by the Penn State Center Philadelphia, a Penn State Outreach service. |
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Graduate Student Wang earns gold graduate student award for work on piezoelectric discovery 08/31/2020 Bo Wang, who earned his doctorate in materials science and engineering from Penn State in August 2020, is the recipient of a Gold Graduate Student Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS). |