Faculty Meltwater drainage, break-away icebergs linked at shrinking Helheim Glacier 03/31/2022 Dark patches of open sea that appear in the ice-choked water around Helheim Glacier may reveal new clues about how a rapidly changing Greenland glacier loses ice, according to a Penn State-led team of scientists. |
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Faculty Flavored tobacco sales restrictions impact availability, advertising 03/31/2022 Flavored tobacco products play a large role in leading youth into addiction, and it is estimated that three out of four youth smokers will continue to smoke well into adulthood, according to the U.S. surgeon general. |
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Faculty Penn State engineering rises in U.S. News & World Report graduate rankings 03/30/2022 In the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Engineering Programs rankings released March 29, engineering at Penn State University Park ranked No. 32 overall, advancing one place from last year's report, and No. 18 among public institutions. |
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Faculty Panel discussion: 'Climate Change: Our Response as Artists' on April 6 03/29/2022 A panel discussion, "Climate Change: Our Response as Artists," will feature artists from Small Island Big Song to discuss the impacts of climate change and explore how art can influence our relationship with the environment. |
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Faculty Penn State's 'Living Filter' to be the focus of wastewater reuse conference 03/28/2022 More than a half-century of research on the use of treated wastewater for irrigation and groundwater recharge will be the focus of a three-day conference hosted by Penn State April 5-7 at the Wyndham Garden hotel in Boalsburg. |
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Alumni Geoscientist enjoys critical mineral successes at national lab 03/28/2022 Penn State alumna Christina Lopano works at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), which is one of the three applied research labs among the 17 national labs operated under the Department of Energy (DOE). |
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Faculty Coffee Hour to examine green infrastructure solutions for water management 03/25/2022 Lauren McPhillips, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Penn State, will provide insights into the effectiveness of green infrastructure solutions in New York and Pennsylvania during a talk at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 1. |
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Graduate Student Geosciences doctoral student receives Outstanding Student Presentation Award 03/25/2022 Judit Gonzalez-Santana, a doctoral student in geosciences, was awarded an Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for her talk "Contrasting flank instability behaviors and volcanic activity styles at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala." |
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Faculty Reevaluation puts mid-Phanerozoic oxygen levels higher than previously reported 03/23/2022 Oxygen levels in the atmosphere during the mid-Proterozoic -- about 1.4 billion years ago -- were higher than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers who looked at oxygen combined with sulfur to determine that previous numbers were probably lower limits, not maximums. |
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Faculty EarthTalks: Columbia’s Sobel to discuss the responsibility of climate scientists 03/23/2022 Adam Sobel, professor of applied physics and applied mathematics, and of Earth and environmental science at Columbia University, will discuss the responsibility of climate scientists during EarthTalks at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 28. |