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Faculty Top weather society honors Mann for children's book on climate change 01/21/2020 Climate expert Michael Mann was honored for his book "The Tantrum that Saved the World," by the American Meteorological Society. |
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Student Two Penn State EMS undergrads serve as GREEN ambassadors 01/21/2020 On a hike up a glacier in Iceland, Penn State junior Gabriel Schaefer saw the bare, rocky ground once covered by ice. |
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Faculty Liu elected president of materials science and engineering society 01/21/2020 Zi-Kui Liu, distinguished professor of materials science and engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, was recently named president of ASM International. |
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Faculty Spring speakers for Coffee Hour lecture series announced 01/20/2020 The Department of Geography Coffee Hour lecture series resumes on Friday afternoons beginning Jan. 31 through April 24 for the spring 2020 semester on Penn State's University Park campus. |
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Faculty Institute for Computational and Data Sciences accepting seed grant applications 01/17/2020 The Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) is accepting applications for its 2020-21 seed grant program that will help fund projects that leverage Penn State expertise to help advance computation- and data-enabled research. |
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Student Penn State to host Study Abroad Week from Jan. 20 to 24 01/16/2020 Penn State will host Study Abroad Week 2020 during the week of Jan. 20-24 on the University Park campus. |
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Faculty A wearable gas sensor for health and environmental monitoring 01/15/2020 A highly sensitive, wearable gas sensor for environmental and human health monitoring may soon become commercially available, according to researchers at Penn State and Northeastern University. |
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Faculty Transparency discovered in crystals with ultrahigh piezoelectricity 01/15/2020 Use of an AC rather than a DC electric field can improve the piezoelectric response of a crystal. Now, an international team of researchers say that cycles of AC fields also make the internal crystal domains in some materials bigger and the crystal transparent. |
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Faculty Spring 2020 EarthTalks series presents science toward solutions 01/10/2020 The spring 2020 EarthTalks series, "Societal Problems, EESI Science towards Solutions," features scientists from Penn State's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) and explores the human impacts on the global environment and how to apply this knowledge to decision-making. |
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Faculty Visiting South African scholar wants to rehabilitate old mines 01/07/2020 Is there a way to turn waste into a useful resource and at the same time reduce environmental degradation from closed mines? That's what visiting South African scholar Nemapate Ndivhuwo wants to find out. |