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Faculty Three Penn State emeritus faculty members named inaugural Atherton Professors 02/23/2023 Penn State has recognized three faculty members as Atherton Professors, a new distinction created by the University to recognize the continuing high level of scholarly or creative activity Evan Pugh University Professors may pursue after their retirement. |
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Faculty Submissions now open for 15th annual Materials Visualization Competition 02/21/2023 The 15th annual Materials Visualization Competition (MVC15) is now accepting submissions. The deadline for submissions is March 15. |
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Faculty EarthTalks: Chabot to discuss NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) 02/21/2023 Nancy Chabot, planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, will deliver the talk "Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): NASA’s First Planetary Defense Test Mission” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27. |
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Faculty College of EMS faculty member Kimberly Lau named Sloan Research Fellow 02/20/2023 Kimberly Lau, assistant professor in Penn State’s Department of Geosciences and an associate in the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, was recently selected to receive a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship. |
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Faculty EarthTalks: Katherine Freeman will discuss OSIRUS-Rex mission to asteroid Bennu 02/15/2023 Katherine Freeman, Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences, will give an overview of the NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission and the state-of-the-art methods Penn State brings to the mission in her talk "Preparing for the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 20. |
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Student EMS dancer filled with excitement heading into THON 02/15/2023 Luke Winand’s motivation to fight pediatric cancer stems from fourth grade when his classmate lost his battle with leukemia. Participating in Penn State THON was no question when he arrived at Penn State. |
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Faculty Two-dimensional oxides open door for high-speed electronics 02/14/2023 Advances in computing power over the decades have come thanks in part to our ability to make smaller and smaller transistors, a building block of electronic devices, but we are nearing the limit of the silicon materials typically used. |
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Faculty Geography Coffee Hour talk to discuss heath effects of wildfire smoke 02/14/2023 Colleen Reid, assistant professor of geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will discuss how to better assess population exposure to wildfire smoke, how it impacts human health, and which communities are more affected by wildfire smoke during a Penn State Department of Geography Coffee Hour talk. |
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Faculty Coffee Hour talk to discuss how infrastructure shapes regions, influences equity 02/08/2023 Michael Glass, director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, will discuss how infrastructural futures are constructed, experienced and changed by the stakeholders that inhabit the region in a Penn State Department of Geography Coffee Hour talk titled “Seeing Equitable City-Region Futures? Negotiating The Epistemic Dimensions of Infrastructure Change in a Lagging Region.” |
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Faculty Six faculty members join the Institutes of Energy and the Environment 02/08/2023 Three College of Earth and Mineral Sciences faculty are among six new Penn State faculty members who have joined the Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE). |