![]() |
Faculty EarthTalks: Panel of ice experts to discuss sea-level rise, melting ice sheets 04/08/2020 Richard Alley, Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences, will lead a discussion with the researchers and graduate students of Penn State's ice group on how much sea-level rise scientists expect from melting ice and answer questions about what this means for citizens and scientists. |
![]() |
Student Undergraduate research takes EMS senior around the world 04/08/2020 From Taiwan to Texas and many places in between, Penn State senior Emily Loucks has spent her academic career traveling the globe and learning as much as she can. |
![]() |
Faculty A forest and its history, threatened 04/06/2020 Recent wildfires in Australia torched more than 48,000 square miles of land (for context, Pennsylvania is about 46,000 square miles). The fires impacted ecologically sensitive regions, including an area called the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Site. |
![]() |
Alumni Online dashboard enables COVID-19 tracking by Pennsylvania county 04/06/2020 Residents of Pennsylvania can monitor the spread of COVID-19 across the commonwealth with an online dashboard created by researchers at Penn State. |
![]() |
Graduate Student Penn State to recognize class of 2020 with virtual commencement ceremony 04/06/2020 In response to the growing coronavirus pandemic, orders from the state government and recommendations from global public health organizations, Penn State will hold its spring 2020 commencement ceremony via livestream on May 9. |
![]() |
Faculty Explore Grants to help researchers search for COVID-19 solutions 04/02/2020 Penn State researchers interested in using computational resources to address the COVID-19 pandemic are encouraged to apply for support through the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences' (ICDS) Explore Grant program. |
![]() |
Graduate Student Students keep learning communities alive virtually 04/02/2020 The halls and classrooms of Walker Building are empty and silent but undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Geography are finding ways to connect and support each other during remote learning. |
![]() |
Faculty Proposals being accepted for ecology research funding 04/01/2020 The Ecology Institute announced a call for proposals for its Flower Grant program to support ecology research focused across the institute's five core themes: resilience and adaptation; provision of ecosystem goods and services; ecology at the interface; rapid evolutionary change; and ecological foundations. |
![]() |
Faculty Scientists tap unused energy source to power smart sensor networks 03/31/2020 Scientists have developed a new mechanism capable of harvesting wasted magnetic field energy and converting it into enough electricity to power next-generation sensor networks for smart buildings and factories. |
![]() |
Faculty EarthTalks seminar to focus on improving science of climate risk management 03/30/2020 Klaus Keller, professor of geosciences, will discuss at the next EarthTalks how engaging with stakeholders and decision-makers can help scientists identify mission-oriented basic science questions, and how scientists can help to improve decisions. |