Graduate Student Geointelligence work influenced Murphy Award winner’s focus on counterterrorism 11/01/2021 Daniel Selik, a student in the intercollege Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security (iMPS-HLS) degree program at Penn State and a retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer, received the 2021 Michael P. Murphy Award in Geospatial Intelligence. |
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Faculty Geography graduate student wins second place in 2021 ICDS Fall Symposium’s virtual poster presentation 11/01/2021 Harman Singh, a graduate student in geography, won the $200 second-place prize for a study that used a mixed-method approach to examine the nature of complex urban flooding in Kerala, India |
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Faculty Seed-grant recipients to put a human face on materials research 10/29/2021 The Materials Research Institute (MRI) and the College of Engineering have announced the recipients of the Materials Matter at the Human Level seed grants. |
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Faculty EarthTalks to examine history of fire in tropical Asia from ice age to present 10/26/2021 Rebecca Hamilton, postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute, will deliver a talk titled "Fire dynamics in tropical Asia: from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene" at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1. |
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Graduate Student Materials Research Institute names five Roy Award winners 10/26/2021 Yihuang Xiong, graduate research assistant in materials science and engineering, is one of five Penn State people to receive the 2021 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award. |
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Faculty Penn State GIS Day virtual event to take place Nov. 16 10/25/2021 Penn State University Libraries will observe GIS Day -- an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS) -- with a virtual event from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 16. |
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Research Study explores how climate change may affect rain in U.S. Corn Belt 10/25/2021 Air humidity is more important than soil moisture in influencing whether it rains in the United States Corn Belt, an agricultural area in the Midwest, stretching from Indiana to Nebraska and responsible for more than 35% of the world's most important grain crop, according to a new study by Penn State researchers. |
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Faculty Elsworth's endowed professorship funds research on energy, environment 10/25/2021 Derek Elsworth, professor of energy and mineral engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, has been selected as the inaugural G. Albert Shoemaker Chair in Mineral Engineering. |
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Alumni Retirement of Colleen Swetland on Oct. 29 10/25/2021 Message from Sue Powell: Colleen Swetland will be retiring from Penn State at the end of this month, Oct. 29, 2021. |
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Faculty Hubert and Mary Barnes professorship established in Department of Geosciences 10/23/2021 A new endowed professorship in the Department of Geosciences in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences honors the legacy of husband-and-wife Penn State researchers, one a distinguished professor emeritus in the department. |