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Student Student prepares for national championship and international internship 06/09/2021 Most college students with summer internships prepare for those opportunities by, at a minimum, packing their bags and securing housing but Melissa Manno rarely settles for the minimum. |
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Graduate Student Graduate student finalists show their work during research pitch competition 06/07/2021 Six Penn State graduate students involved in materials or engineering research presented a concise rundown of their research, in two minutes or less, for judges from companies including PPG, Corning, Dow and Murata at the finals of the Millennium Cafe PPG Elevator Pitch Competition on May 18. |
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Faculty Innovative batteries put flying cars on the horizon 06/07/2021 A team of Penn State researchers are exploring the requirements for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles and designing and testing potential battery power sources. |
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Faculty Climate change a bigger threat to landscape biodiversity than emerald ash borer 06/07/2021 Despite the devastating impact the emrald ash borer has had on forests in the eastern and midwestern parts of the U.S., climate change will have a much larger and widespread impact on these landscapes through the end of the century, according to researchers. |
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University Libraries honors 2021 employee award recipients 06/03/2021 Penn State University Libraries have recognized seven outstanding faculty and staff, including Aaron Procious, a staff member at the Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library. |
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Faculty Passion drives tornado research for distinguished professor of meteorology 06/02/2021 Paul Markowski has dedicated his 20-year career at Penn State to understanding tornadoes, particularly bettering predictors for when they'll occur. |
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Faculty Researchers awarded grant to advance geothermal energy science 06/02/2021 Penn State scientists are working to predict possible breaks in massve underground reservoirs that store geothermal energy and how to mitigate the potential fallout. |
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Faculty Institute awards 14 computational and data sciences seed grants 06/01/2021 From making our roads safer to paving the way to exoplanet discovery, the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) seed grants have funded 14 projects backed by researchers from across the disciplines and around the University. |
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Faculty Scientists develop transparent electrode that boosts solar cell efficiency 05/28/2021 Developing new ultrathin metal electrodes has allowed researchers to create semitransparent perovskite solar cells that are highly efficient and can be coupled with traditional silicon cells to greatly boost the performance of both devices, said an international team of scientists. |
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Faculty New Administrative Fellow will bring ecological approach to her experience 05/28/2021 Erica Smithwick, Penn State distinguished professor of geography and associate director of the Institutes of Energy and the Environment, was selected as an Administrative Fellow for the 2021-22 academic year. |