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Faculty Rapidly rising bedrock may help delay Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse 07/02/2018 The bedrock beneath West Antarctica is rising rapidly in response to the ongoing ice melt of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, according to an international team of researchers, who indicated that their results have important implications for estimating future ice sheet stability and projections of ice mass losses. |
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Research Sintering atomically thin materials with ceramics now possible 06/29/2018 For the first time, researchers have created a nanocomposite of ceramics and a two-dimensional material, opening the door for new designs of nanocomposites with such applications as solid-state batteries, thermoelectrics, varistors, catalysts, chemical sensors and much more. |
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Faculty Three new co-funds join Institutes of Energy and the Environment 06/28/2018 Three faculty members recently joined the Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) in three different areas of expertise. Two are in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, and the other is in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. |
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Research Self-heating, fast-charging battery makes electric vehicles climate-immune 06/28/2018 Californians do not purchase electric vehicles because they are cool, they buy EVs because they live in a warm climate. Conventional lithium-ion batteries cannot be rapidly charged at temperatures below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, but now a team of Penn State engineers has created a battery that can self-heat, allowing rapid charging regardless of the outside chill. |
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Faculty Carbon dioxide-to-methanol process improved by catalyst 06/28/2018 Dramatic improvements have been made to the process of converting carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to methanol, a fuel and building block for a wide range of everyday materials, according to Penn State researchers. |
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Alumni George Middlemas, alumnus and philanthropist, dies 06/25/2018 George M. Middlemas Jr., a Penn State alumnus and generous University donor, particularly to the University Libraries, passed away June 14 in Bachelor Gulch, Colorado, two days after his 72nd birthday. |
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Faculty Penn State announces fixed-term faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2018 06/25/2018 The following is a list of fixed-term faculty promotions at Penn State, effective July 1. |
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Graduate Student Penn State graduate students win award in geospatial intelligence 06/21/2018 A team of Penn State graduate students recently received the 2018 Michael P. Murphy Award in Geospatial Intelligence, a Penn State endowed scholarship award, for work they did during a geospatial intelligence course offered though the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute. |
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Faculty Nuclear power shutdowns won't spike power prices 06/19/2018 Despite economic woes that could shutter two of Pennsylvania's nuclear power plants -- which generate 6 percent of the state's power -- power prices will remain steady due to low natural gas prices, according to Seth Blumsack, associate professor of energy policy and economics, Penn State. |
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Faculty Geosciences students again dominate at Imperial Barrel Award Competition 06/15/2018 Penn State students again finished near the top worldwide in the Imperial Barrel Award Competition, which pits more than 100 teams against one another in an exercise to assess the petroleum potential of a given geographic basin. |