Faculty Supercomputer cluster donation helps turn high school class into research lab 05/08/2019 A single NASA weather satellite can produce more than 30 megabytes of information per second. Put another way, that satellite can produce about the same amount of data every ten seconds that an average person consumes in a day. |
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Faculty Institutes of Energy and the Environment announces seed grant recipients 05/07/2019 The 2018-19 Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) seed grant recipients have been awarded to 18 groups of interdisciplinary researchers at Penn State. |
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Alumni Alumnus' research on 2D materials published in Springer Theses book series 05/06/2019 A Penn State graduate's doctoral research on two-dimensional (2D) materials soon may help students build a better understanding of the field. |
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Student Students display projects at the Capstone Design Project Showcase 05/06/2019 Students, including two teams advised by Allen Kimel, associate teaching professor of materials science and engineering, displayed their capstone design projects at the College of Engineering's spring 2019 Capstone Design Project Showcase. |
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Penn State graduate students visit Capitol Hill, discuss science-based policy 05/06/2019 Members of the Penn State Science Policy Societyrecently visited Washington, D.C., where they met with officials from several congressional offices and nongovernmental organizations to discuss the promotion of science and evidence-based policy. |
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Faculty Michael Mann awarded the 2019 Praxis Award in Professional Ethics 4061 05/02/2019 Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State, received the 2019 Praxis Award in Professional Ethics during a ceremony at Villanova University on April 11. |
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Faculty White House official to deliver EMS 2019 spring commencement address 04/30/2019 Kelvin K. Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will deliver the 2019 spring commencement address for the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) undergraduate graduation ceremony. |
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Faculty Federal research significant in environmental rule-making 16 04/30/2019 Federally sponsored science plays a more significant role in bringing together stakeholders and facilitating environmental governance debates than all other types of research, according to an international team of researchers. |
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Student Past, present and future of Online Geospatial Education at Penn State celebrated 04/30/2019 Here is something to think about: Some of Penn State's current Department of Geography students weren't even born when Online Geospatial Education at Penn State offered its first class. |
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Student New club, Women in Materials Science, strengthens ties among women in STEM 04/29/2019 When Penn State student Ana Isabel de la Fuente Duran's fellowship led her to tackle materials science research problems at another university last summer, she stumbled upon an entirely different problem to solve. |