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Faculty Michael Mann awarded the 2019 Praxis Award in Professional Ethics 4061 05/02/2019 Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State, received the 2019 Praxis Award in Professional Ethics during a ceremony at Villanova University on April 11. |
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Faculty White House official to deliver EMS 2019 spring commencement address 04/30/2019 Kelvin K. Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will deliver the 2019 spring commencement address for the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) undergraduate graduation ceremony. |
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Faculty Federal research significant in environmental rule-making 16 04/30/2019 Federally sponsored science plays a more significant role in bringing together stakeholders and facilitating environmental governance debates than all other types of research, according to an international team of researchers. |
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Student Past, present and future of Online Geospatial Education at Penn State celebrated 04/30/2019 Here is something to think about: Some of Penn State's current Department of Geography students weren't even born when Online Geospatial Education at Penn State offered its first class. |
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Student New club, Women in Materials Science, strengthens ties among women in STEM 04/29/2019 When Penn State student Ana Isabel de la Fuente Duran's fellowship led her to tackle materials science research problems at another university last summer, she stumbled upon an entirely different problem to solve. |
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Faculty Meteorology and atmospheric science students raise money for storm victims 04/29/2019 Penn State student Kristina Salvatore spends much of her time thinking about weather events, including severe storms that impact people around the world. After hurricane season this year, Salvatore, a senior in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, wondered what she could do to help those affected by these storms. |
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Faculty Developing an engineering design simulator for risk-related decision making 04/29/2019 Jeremy Gernand, Penn State assistant professor of environmental health and safety engineering in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, recently received a Gladys Snyder Education Grant from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences to develop a computer-based simulator to give undergraduate engineering students experience with the risk-related implications of system design decisions. |
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Faculty Human encroachment alters air quality over Amazon rainforest 04/25/2019 Plumes of air pollution generated from a rapidly expanding city within the Amazon rainforest are wafting hundreds of miles and degrading air quality in the pristine rainforest, according to a team of scientists. |
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Student New research shows promise for success of underrepresented scholars in STEM 04/25/2019 With the goal of preparing scholars from underrepresented groups to succeed in graduate and professional programs, Penn State, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) partnered to develop undergraduate programs aimed at increasing retention and academic performance of historically racially underrepresented undergraduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. |
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Student Murdzek, Hakimi named marshals for College of Earth and Mineral Sciences 04/24/2019 Shawn Murdzek is the spring 2019 College of Earth and Mineral Sciences student marshal, the top graduate overall, and Muhamad S. Hakimi is the college's engineering honor marshal, the top graduate from an engineering discipline. |