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Faculty Mineral processing expert joins mining engineering faculty 08/22/2020 Barbara J. Arnold joined the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences as a professor of practice in mining engineering on Aug. 1. |
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Research COVID-19 doesn’t curb field camp 'rite of passage' for geosciences students 08/20/2020 In a field exercise, geosciences student Katie Reilly moved from point to point, analyzing surface geological formations, hoping to gain insight into the environmental conditions that formed portions of the Rocky Mountains. |
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Student Kirchner earns scholars award for glass research from American Ceramic Society 08/18/2020 Katelyn Kirchner, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering at Penn State, recently earned the Alfred R. Cooper Scholars Award from the American Ceramic Society. |
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Faculty Geoscientist's professorship to drive research on landscapes, hazards 08/18/2020 Roman DiBiase won't soon forget the name of an early mentor when he began his career at Penn State in 2014. |
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Faculty Faculty funded to study how people's movement impacts COVID-19 transmission 08/13/2020 Nita Bharti, Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor and assistant professor of biology at Penn State, and her collaborator Anthony Robinson, associate professor of geography at Penn State, have been awarded seed funding from the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State to study how monitoring the movement of people can potentially be used as a predictor or early indicator of COVID-19 transmission and guide health policy decisions. |
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Faculty Penn State to lead $30 million university research alliance 08/13/2020 The Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has awarded a combined total of $51.1 million to two university research alliances to counter threats of destruction, with a specific focus on improving current and developing future warfighter technology. |
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Research Highly sensitive dopamine detector uses 2D materials 08/07/2020 A supersensitive dopamine detector can help in the early diagnosis of several disorders that result in too much or too little dopamine, according to a group led by Penn State and including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and universities in China and Japan. |
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Faculty New acid mine drainage treatment turns waste into valuable critical minerals 08/05/2020 A new way to treat acid mine drainage (AMD) could help transform the environmental pollution problem into an important domestic source of the critical rare earth elements needed to produce technology ranging from smart phones to fighter jets, according to Penn State scientists. |
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Student Milan Liu selected Earth and Mineral Sciences 2020 summer student marshal 08/04/2020 Milan Liu was selected to represent the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences as the student marshal for Penn State's summer commencement, which will be held virtually at 2 p.m. Aug. 15. |
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Student Engineering team wins top prize in entrepreneur program for flex heal product 08/04/2020 A team of four College of Engineering students, one College of Earth and Mineral Sciences student and one engineering faculty member recently won the top prize in the Ben Franklin (BF) TechCelerator @ State College program. |