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Faculty Penn State center to advance AI tools to accelerate scientific progress 04/23/2021 A recently approved research center will unite Penn State researchers to explore the use of artificial intelligence as a tool to dramatically accelerate the scientific process, an initiative that the center's organizers say could rapidly accelerate scientific progress. |
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Faculty Penn State announces 2021 University-wide faculty and staff awards 04/22/2021 Each year, Penn State recognizes outstanding faculty and staff with annual awards in teaching and excellence. These awards highlight many of the University's faculty and staff who go above and beyond. |
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Graduate Student Sustainability awards recognize student leadership, commitment 04/21/2021 This month, Penn State's Sustainability Institute (SI) and the Student Sustainability Advisory Council (SSAC) honored six Penn State students for their leadership and commitment to sustainability throughout their time at Penn State. |
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Student Virtual Undergraduate Exhibition showcases undergraduate ingenuity 04/21/2021 he 2021 Undergraduate Exhibition, held online between April 14 and 16, showcased the ingenuity of more than 190 Penn State undergraduates from across the commonwealth, who shared their research, creative activity or engagement experience with the Penn State community. |
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Faculty When calculating the social cost of methane, equity matters 04/21/2021 The social cost of methane -- a greenhouse gas that is 30 times as potent as carbon dioxide in its ability to trap heat -- varies by as much as an order of magnitude between industrialized and developing regions of the world, according to researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley and Penn State. |
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Graduate Student 'Dead clades walking': Fossil record provides new insights into mass extinctions 04/20/2021 Mass extinctions are known as times of global upheaval, causing rapid losses in biodiversity that wipe out entire animal groups. Some of the doomed groups linger on before going extinct, and a team of scientists found these "dead clades walking" (DCW) are more common and long-lasting than expected. |
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Faculty EESI EarthTalks panel to discuss how to avoid a global hothouse 04/20/2021 Solutions for limiting global warming range from the experimental, such as solar geoengineering, to economic incentives like carbon pricing will be discussed at an EESI EarthTalks at 4 p.m. Monday, April 26. |
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Faculty Six receive Faculty Scholar Medals 04/19/2021 Six Penn State faculty members have received 2021 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement, including John Mauro and Joshua Robinson in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. |
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Faculty Penn State undergraduate digs into the past through fossil leaves 04/14/2021 As a child, Edward Spagnuolo dreamed of dinosaurs and hunting for fossils buried in the ground. He never outgrew the phase, and he eventually chased his dream to Penn State. Now a junior majoring in geobiology, Spagnuolo has found a new avenue for pursuing his passion - fossil leaves. |
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Faculty Four projects receive research computing support through institute's seed grants 04/14/2021 The Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) has awarded the first round of RISE seed grants, made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation. |