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Research Advanced biofuels show promise for replacing some fossil fuels 08/25/2020 Plant-based biofuels can play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and growing these crops in certain landscapes offers net climate benefits compared to other land use options, according to a team of international scientists. |
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Research Thin layer protects battery, allows cold charging 08/25/2020 In the search for a reliable, quick-charging, cold-weather battery for automobiles, a self-assembling, thin layer of electrochemically active molecules may be the solution, according to a team of researchers. |
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Research Locust swarm could improve collision avoidance 08/24/2020 Plagues of locusts, containing millions of insects, fly across the sky to attack crops, but the individual insects do not collide with each other within these massive swarms. Now a team of engineers is creating a low-power collision detector that mimics the locust avoidance response and could help robots, drones and even self-driving cars avoid collisions. |
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Student Students work to educate Pennsylvanians about benefits of renewable energy 08/24/2020 Penn State students are working virtually on the Pennsylvania Solar Center's Renew PA Works campaign in an effort to educate Pennsylvanians about the benefits of renewable energy, including job creation. |
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Faculty Wauthier awarded NSF CAREER award to investigate volcanic flank instability 08/24/2020 Christelle Wauthier, associate professor of geosciences in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation to develop numerical models to characterize volcanic flank instability processes. |
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Faculty Mineral processing expert joins mining engineering faculty 08/22/2020 Barbara J. Arnold joined the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences as a professor of practice in mining engineering on Aug. 1. |
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Research COVID-19 doesn’t curb field camp 'rite of passage' for geosciences students 08/20/2020 In a field exercise, geosciences student Katie Reilly moved from point to point, analyzing surface geological formations, hoping to gain insight into the environmental conditions that formed portions of the Rocky Mountains. |
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Student Kirchner earns scholars award for glass research from American Ceramic Society 08/18/2020 Katelyn Kirchner, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering at Penn State, recently earned the Alfred R. Cooper Scholars Award from the American Ceramic Society. |
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Faculty Geoscientist's professorship to drive research on landscapes, hazards 08/18/2020 Roman DiBiase won't soon forget the name of an early mentor when he began his career at Penn State in 2014. |
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Faculty Faculty funded to study how people's movement impacts COVID-19 transmission 08/13/2020 Nita Bharti, Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor and assistant professor of biology at Penn State, and her collaborator Anthony Robinson, associate professor of geography at Penn State, have been awarded seed funding from the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State to study how monitoring the movement of people can potentially be used as a predictor or early indicator of COVID-19 transmission and guide health policy decisions. |