Faculty Post-fire forest recovery tools developed 01/18/2022 Restocking forest patches after fires is important but relies on landscape and local factors, making successful tree replacement and forest recovery difficult. Now, a team of geographers analyzed forest recovery to develop aids for managers in maintaining forests. |
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Faculty Newly discovered carbon may yield clues to ancient Mars 01/17/2022 NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and since then has roamed Gale Crater taking samples and sending the results back home for researchers to interpret. |
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Research Penn State awarded $3.4 million contract to target plastic waste 01/17/2022 Penn State has been awarded a $3.4 million contract from the REMADE Institute, a public-private partnership established by the United States Department of Energy, to fund research targeting the inefficient methods currently used to process and upcycle mixed plastic waste. |
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Faculty Integrated modeling of climate impacts on electricity demand and cost 01/17/2022 Around the world, energy systems are increasingly impacted by the effects of a changing climate. |
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Faculty Paper on geovisual analytics wins 'Test of Time' award 01/10/2022 A 2011 paper authored by Penn State researchers outlining a geovisual analytics approach to support geographically grounded situational awareness of crisis events using social media was selected to receive the 2021 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology Test of Time award. |
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Faculty How understanding neighborhoods can help reduce tobacco use 01/03/2022 A Penn State researcher testing a new way to assess tobacco use with a neighborhood mapping platform and in-person interviews has found that community engagement is key to addressing risky health behaviors. |
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Faculty Battery metals from mine waste: Potential economic benefits for the commonwealth 12/17/2021 New findings by a team led by Penn State researchers suggest potential economic opportunities from the domestic production of critial minerals like cobalt and manganese. |
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Research Fossil worm dung shows traces of microscopic ‘miners’ in elemental silver 12/17/2021 When one organism's trash contains traces of human treasure, look for ancient microbial activity, according to researchers who found elemental silver in fossilized worm dung. |
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Alumni Alpha Chi Sigma alumni group creates $1.5 million in new scholarship endowments 12/17/2021 Penn State alumni of the national professional chemistry fraternity Alpha Chi Sigma have committed $1.5 million to endow scholarships in the three colleges where most of their members earned their degrees: the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, the College of Engineering, and the Eberly College of Science. |
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Faculty Professor to receive media achievement award from geography society 12/16/2021 Joshua Inwood, professor of geography and senior research scientist at the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State, has been selected to receive the Media Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers (AAG). |