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Faculty Seminar series featuring women in energy research to launch on Sept. 16 09/13/2021 A new seminar series has been established by the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences to celebrate women conducting energy and water research, to highlight their successes, to engage women students and to provide an opportunity for faculty to establish and expand their professional network and mentoring relationships. |
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Faculty EESI EarthTalks to discuss climate-human-fire interactions and feedbacks 09/13/2021 David McWethy, assistant research professor at Montana State University, will discuss climate-human-fire interactions and feedbacks in temperate ecosystems during a talk at 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 20. |
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Alumni Career in teaching, business development earns EMS grad Alumni Achievement Award 09/10/2021 When David Donohue was a young man, fresh out of graduate school at Penn State and working for a major oil and gas corporation, he believed he found a way to improve a production process for his employer. |
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Faculty Past fires may hold key to reducing severity of future wildfires in western US 09/09/2021 Previous fires may hold the key to predicting and reducing the severity of future wildfires in the western United States as fire activity continues to increase, according to researchers from Penn State and the U.S. Forest Service. |
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Faculty Penn State partners with two universities for diversity in materials research 09/08/2021 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Penn State the lead partner to both Florida International University (FIU) and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) as part of the Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program. |
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Faculty EarthTalks to examine early evolution of fire-human relationships 09/08/2021 Jessica Thompson, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University, will discuss the early evolution of fire-human relationships during a talk at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 13. |
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Faculty Task force created to significantly reduce Penn State's carbon emissions 09/03/2021 President Eric Barron has created the Carbon Emissions Reduction Task Force to reconsider Penn State's greenhouse gas emissions goal of reducing greenhouse gas outputs to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 with a view toward setting a more aggressive target as well as a revised timeframe. |
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Research Dual grants totaling $2.25 million help students take a byte out of data science 09/02/2021 All of the data produced or used in 2020 was estimated to be about 59 zettabytes, each of which equals a billion terabytes. If each terabyte represents a mile, 59 zettabytes would allow for almost 10 full round trips from Earth to Pluto. |
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Research Graphene made with lasers for wearable health devices 09/02/2021 Graphene, hexagonally arranged carbon atoms in a single layer with superior pliability and high conductivity, could advance flexible electronics according to a Penn State-led international research team. |
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Faculty Call for researchers to participate in health, built environment workshop series 09/02/2021 The Institutes of Energy and the Environment, through its Health and the Environment thematic area, is inviting members of the Penn State research community to participate in a series of four workshops on topics related to health and the built environment. |