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Faculty Penn State announces 2020 University-wide faculty and staff awards 03/27/2020 Each year, Penn State recognizes outstanding faculty and staff with annual awards in teaching and excellence. These awards highlight many of the University's faculty and staff who go above and beyond. |
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Faculty Six faculty members receive 2020 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching 03/27/2020 Six Penn State faculty members have received the 2020 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, including Timothy Bralower, professor of geosciences in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. |
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Faculty EarthTalks looks to past geology, climate to predict landscape response 03/24/2020 Roman DiBiase, assistant professor of geosciences, will discuss how geologic history influenced landscape response to climate change during the last ice age, and how it influences the resilience of watersheds to human land use changes at the next EarthTalks seminar. |
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Alumni American Meteorological Society names award after meteorology pioneer and leader 03/23/2020 The American Meteorological Society (AMS) recently created a national award in honor of Penn State meteorology alumnus and weather pioneer Warren Washington. |
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Faculty EarthTalks embraces uncertainty in Earth system modeling projections 03/16/2020 Chris Forest, professor of climate dynamics, will look at uncertainty in Earth system model projections and its effects on assessing climate risk and proposing solutions at the next EarthTalks seminar at 4 p.m. Monday, March 23. |
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Faculty 3M and Penn State strike three-year deal to drive research 03/13/2020 As Penn State Materials Research Institute prepared for its 2019 Materials Day event - held Oct. 29-30 - 3M was busy reinforcing its relationship with Penn State to advance research activities with a new $900,000 commitment over the next three years. |
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Research Knowing why bacteria are great upstream swimmers may prevent serious infections 03/12/2020 New findings on how bacteria can maintain persistent and fast upstream swimming motion over distances comparable with many human organs, may help prevent life-threatening infections, according to a team of international researchers. |
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Faculty Miller Lecture to feature Rivers of Power author Laurence Smith 03/12/2020 Laurence Smith, the John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environment and Society and professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown University, will give the annual Miller Lecture at 2:30 p.m., April 24, at Robb Hall in the Hintz Family Alumni Center, on Penn State's University Park campus. |
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Faculty Two-dimensional metals open pathways to new science 03/09/2020 An atomically thin materials platform developed by Penn State researchers in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab will open a wide range of new applications in biomolecular sensing, quantum phenomena, catalysis and nonlinear optics. |
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Faculty Geospatial intelligence helps emergency management teams make better maps 03/06/2020 As Hurricane Dorian made landfall on Grand Bahama Island in 2019 and bushfires engulfed Australia in 2020, emergency teams were busy creating plans to best respond and provide relief to those affected by the disasters. |