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Alumni Meteorologist Greg Forbes among 14 Penn Staters honored with Alumni Fellow Award 09/14/2018 The Penn State Alumni Association will recognize 14 graduates on Oct. 3 with the lifelong title of Alumni Fellow, the highest award given by the Alumni Association. |
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Home Page Public invited to fourth annual International Cultures Night on Sept. 17 09/14/2018 International cultures will be on display from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 17, on the ground floor of Deike Building on Penn State's University Park campus. The fourth annual International Cultures Night celebrates cultures from around the world through food, music, performances and cultural exhibitions. |
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Home Page Sign up for 'Women in Geospatial Sciences, Building Leaders for Tomorrow' workshop 09/13/2018 Penn State and Syracuse University will host two 1-and-a-half-day workshops to identify challenges women currently face in U.S. universities, and provide recommendations to retain women leaders in the geospatial sciences, through active engagement and building of peer-mentorship networks within departments, and also across the university and between universities. |
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Faculty EMS faculty member among seed grant recipients to support opioid research 09/13/2018 Penn State's Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), in collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has awarded over $200,000 in funding to support 10 new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at combating the opioid epidemic. |
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Research Program combines mobile devices and the outdoors in an unlikely pairing 09/12/2018 In the age of digital technology, mobile devices are good for more than just text messaging and playing games. According to Penn State College of Education researchers, the combination of technology and the outdoors is getting children and their families outside to learn more about science and their communities. |
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Home Page College of Earth and Mineral Sciences to partner with Montan University Leoben 09/11/2018 The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) has entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Montan University Leoben, in Leoben, Austria, to develop a student exchange partnership that will link two educational institutions known for their expertise in sustainable approaches to materials sciences, mining and geosciences, with additional partnership opportunities with Penn State's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute. |
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Home Page Showcase discusses College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' strategic vision 09/10/2018 The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' (EMS) 2018 GEMS Showcase, "EMS Strategic Vision: An Evening with the Dean and Special Guests," was held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, in 114 Steidle Building on Penn State's University Park campus. |
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Parallel computing boot camp: hundreds learn together, miles apart 09/10/2018 Once a year students, faculty and staff around the country log in on their computers for the four-day XSEDE Summer Boot Camp. Attendees gather together on their respective campuses to learn about parallel programming and widely used supercomputing tools, such as Message Passing Interface (MPI), Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP), Open Accelerators (OpenACC), while also testing their computing skills. |
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Research NSF funds $3 million graduate training program focused on Food-Energy-Water 09/10/2018 The National Science Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers to create a new graduate program that will train students to find solutions to real-world problems facing Food-Energy-Water (FEW) systems. |
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Faculty $490K grant funds unique Greenland glacier study 09/10/2018 A more comprehensive way to understand the fracturing of Greenland's Helheim Glacier may now be possible thanks to a $489,000 grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to a team of Penn State researchers to launch a feasibility study. |