Faculty Urbanization not always bad for food and land use diversity 11/19/2021 Widely accepted myths that urbanization negatively impacts food and land use biodiversity are incorrect, according to a team of researchers who developed a framework for evaluating this intersection. Their results could also affect nutrition and food insecurity in urban areas. |
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Faculty Can defects turn inert materials into useful, active ones? 11/18/2021 Demonstrating that a material thought to be always chemically inert, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), can be turned chemically active holds potential for a new class of catalysts with a wide range of applications, according to an international team of researchers. |
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Faculty Climate uncertainty colors flood risk assessment 11/18/2021 Understanding how climate change will affect the flooding of rivers may become easier with a new framework for assessing flood risk that's been developed by an interdisciplinary team from Penn State. |
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Research Penn State Breazeale Reactor expands in size and in opportunities 11/18/2021 Penn State's Radiation Science & Engineering Center and the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering broke ground on a 10,000-square-foot, $9.5 million expansion of the Breazeale Reactor on Oct. 21. |
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Faculty Webinar: What’s behind rising oil and gas prices? 11/18/2021 A panel of energy experts from Penn State and industry will discuss the reasons behind rising oil and gas prices; what it means for heating bills this winter; potential policy responses to keep energy prices in check; and how rising prices might encourage or thwart a transition to alternative sources of energy. |
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Faculty Study challenges standard ideas about piezoelectricity in ferroelectric crystals 11/17/2021 For years, researchers believed that the smaller the domain size in a ferroelectric crystal, the greater the piezoelectric properties of the material. However, recent findings by Penn State researchers have raised questions about this standard rule. |
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Faculty Penn State researchers look to build on Deines legacy in lab named in his honor 11/16/2021 A recently dedicated lab at Penn State bears the name of a longtime geosciences faculty member who used isotope geochemistry to better understand processes deep within the Earth. |
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Faculty Women in energy and water research seminars to feature Jennifer Dunn on Nov. 18 11/16/2021 The Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research lecture series will host two talks by Jennifer Dunn, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University, on Thursday, Nov. 18. |
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Faculty EarthTalks seminar to examine drivers of rapid increase in US wildfire activity 11/16/2021 Park Williams, associate professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, will discuss the drivers of the increased fire activity during a talk titled "Understanding the rapid recent increase in western U.S. wildfire activity." The talk, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29, via Zoom. |
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Last date to participate in the EMS Centre County United Way raffle is Nov. 19 11/15/2021 The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences is hosting an online 50/50 raffle to benefit the Centre County United Way as part of the 2020-21 Penn State United Way campaign. |