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Student Karl Schneider named College of Earth and Mineral Sciences science honor marshal 05/08/2020 Karl P. Schneider, a Schreyer Scholar, has been selected as the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' science honor marshal for Penn State's spring 2020 Commencement ceremony, which will be held virtually at 2 p.m. on May 9. |
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Student Aloqili named College of Earth and Mineral Sciences 2020 spring student marshal 05/07/2020 Saeed Abbas A. Aloqili has been selected as the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' student marshal for Penn State's spring 2020 Commencement ceremony, which will be held virtually at 2 p.m. on May 9. |
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Student Materials science graduate student earns award for outreach efforts 05/07/2020 Tom Nigl, doctoral candidate in materials science and engineering (MatSE) at Penn State, was awarded the Intercollege Graduate Student Outreach Achievement Award from the Graduate School for outreach efforts that promote science within society.f |
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Student Weather Risk Management Club stays connected, examines pandemic impacts remotely 05/06/2020 Penn State junior Andrew Mardirossian knows severe weather never stops, even during a pandemic. Mardirossian and his fellow members of the Weather Risk Management Club knew they couldn't stop, either. |
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Faculty Institute awards 32 computational and data sciences seed grants 05/06/2020 Understanding polarized political opinions, predicting Arctic Sea ice levels, and accelerating quantum computing with machine learning -- these are just a few focuses of the dozens of new Penn State research projects that have been funded by Institute for Computational and Data Sciences seed grants, in conjunction with supplemental funding from the colleges of Arts and Architecture, Earth and Mineral Sciences; Information Sciences and Technology; Education; and Engineering. |
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Faculty Warming Midwest conditions may result in corn, soybean production moving north 05/04/2020 If warming continues unabated in the Midwest, in 50 years we can expect the best conditions for corn and soybean production to have shifted from Iowa and Illinois to Minnesota and the Dakotas, according to Penn State researchers. |
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Faculty Challenge met: Geography department transitions to remote teaching and learning 05/04/2020 Within days of the University's shift to remote learning, faculty, instructors and teaching assistants in the Department of Geography moved 35 resident instruction courses into remote delivery mode to teach 1,947 students. |
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Faculty 'Gargantuan' hail in Argentina may have smashed world record 04/29/2020 A supercell thunderstorm pelted a city center in Argentina a few years ago with hailstones so large scientists suggested a new category to describe them -- gargantuan hail. |
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Faculty Reducing greenhouse gas emissions using microwave plasma technology 04/29/2020 A multi-disciplinary collaborative relationship, developed between Penn State EMS Energy Institute researchers and a Pittsburgh-based start-up company, may hold the answer to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions while also paving the way to disrupt the chemical and material industries. |
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Alumni World Campus students help Pennsylvania boroughs make climate action plans 04/29/2020 Four Penn State World Campus students have spent the school year working with Pennsylvania boroughs to inventory greenhouse gas emissions and coming up with plans for reducing them. |