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Student Four student teams use AI for good to win 2020 Nittany AI Challenge 09/29/2020 Nyansapo, OpenVessel, AI Guide and Cyclone are the winners of the 2020 Nittany AI Challenge. |
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Faculty Engineers investigate additive manufacturing quality control with grant from 3M 09/29/2020 An interdisciplinary team of researchers in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and College of Engineering was awarded a $180,000 grant to investigate comprehensive quality control methods for additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, of metals. |
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Faculty Fracking bill analysis reveals how states may influence each other's policies 09/29/2020 Even though State governments routinely rely upon interest groups to help them as they craft legislation, researchers found that certain peer-leader states, like Pennsylvania and Colorado, have greater influence in shaping states' fracking policies, in a study led by Penn State Professor of Geography Jennifer Baka. |
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Research Generating renewable hydrogen fuel from the sea 09/29/2020 The power of the sun, wind and sea may soon combine to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel, according to a team of Penn State researchers. |
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Faculty Zi-Kui Liu named inaugural Dorothy Pate Enright Professor 09/28/2020 Zi-Kui Liu, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Phases Research Laboratory, has been named the inaugural Dorothy Pate Enright Professor. |
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Research Increasing stability decreases ocean productivity, reduces carbon burial 09/28/2020 As the globe warms, the atmosphere is becoming more unstable, but the oceans are becoming more stable, according to an international team of climate scientists, who say that the increase in stability is greater than predicted and a stable ocean will absorb less carbon and be less productive. |
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Faculty Simpler models may be better for determining some climate risk 09/24/2020 Typically, computer models of climate become more and more complex as researchers strive to capture more details of our Earth's system, but according to a team of Penn State researchers, to assess risks, less complex models, with their ability to better sample uncertainties, may be a better choice. |
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Faculty Four Penn State researchers join the Social Science Research Institute 09/23/2020 Four Penn State researchers have joined the Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse, part of the Social Science Research Institute, including faculty members from the colleges of Engineering, Earth and Mineral Sciences, and Health and Human Development. |
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Faculty All-Atlantic Summit to focus on inclusive ocean economies in Atlantic region 09/22/2020 The All-Atlantic Summit will include the 6th High-Level Industry-Science-Government Dialogue on Atlantic Interactions (HLD) and technical sessions focusing on innovation to develop inclusive ocean economies in the Atlantic region. |
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Faculty Energy Law and Policy webinars to focus on Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative 09/22/2020 Pennsylvania has taken the first steps towards joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), an agreement among almost a dozen states in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants. |