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Faculty High energy Li-Ion battery is safer for electric vehicles 03/04/2020 A lithium-ion battery that is safe, has high power and can last for 1 million miles has been developed by a team in Penn State's Battery and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Center. |
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Research Researchers identify breaking point of conducting material 03/03/2020 An improved method to predict the temperature when plastics change from supple to brittle, which could potentially accelerate future development of flexible electronics, was developed by Penn State College of Engineering researchers. |
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Faculty Inaugural 'Speed Dating with Learning Technologies' a success 03/03/2020 The John A. Dutton e-Education Institute's first "Speed Dating with Learning Technologies" event for College of Earth and Mineral Sciences instructors, held on Feb. 13, was a success. |
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Faculty ‘Materials to Enhance Human Health’ theme for Nelson W. Taylor Lecture Series 03/03/2020 The 2020 Nelson W. Taylor Lecture Series in Materials Science and Engineering will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 5 in the HUB-Robeson Center's Freeman Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus. |
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Faculty The economy as complement, not detriment, to environment 03/03/2020 There can be tensions when a large company makes a multi-million-dollar deal with a community to build facilities. Tensions can be even higher if the company is a fossil fuel company. |
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Faculty Scientists create road map for improving carbon estimates 03/03/2020 Penn State researchers found that a common tool used to understand carbon dioxide fluxes, or how the gas moves between the atmosphere and ecosystems, may be overconfident because of uncertainties in the release of carbon dioxide by the combustion of fossil fuels. |
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Faculty Digging into the past 03/03/2020 High on the craggy cliffs of Oman's rocky desert landscape, Sarah Ivory squeezed into narrow, dark caves in search of a different kind of goldmine. |
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Graduate Student Wei Zhang receives 2020 Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate Fellowship 03/02/2020 Wei Zhang, a doctoral student in energy and mineral engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, has been awarded the Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate Fellowship in petroleum engineering. |
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Faculty EarthTalks explores challenges of adding renewable energy to power grid 03/02/2020 Seth Blumsack, professor of energy policy and economics and international affairs at Penn State, will look at the challenges of adding renewable energy to the power grid at the next EarthTalks seminar at 4 p.m. Monday, March 16, in 112 Walker Building. |
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Faculty Earth and Mineral Sciences student finds bright future in solar energy 02/25/2020 When Zoe Rauscher arrived at Penn State as a first-year student, she "knew nothing about solar," she said. |