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Faculty Connection of sea level and groundwater missing link in climate response 04/02/2018 About 250 million years ago, when the Earth had no ice caps and the water around the equator was too hot for reptiles, sea level still rose and fell over time. Now, an international team of researchers has developed a way to track sea-level rise and fall and to tease out what caused the changes in the absence of ice sheets. |
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Faculty Wang, Zhang among six to receive Faculty Scholar Medals 04/02/2018 Six University faculty members have received 2018 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement -- John M. Carroll, distinguished professor of information sciences and technology; Neil Christensen, professor of pathology, and microbiology and immunology; Bernhard Luscher, professor of biology, biochemistry and molecular biology; Sandra Spanier, liberal arts professor of English; Qing Wang, professor of materials science and engineering; and Fuqing Zhang, professor of meteorology and atmospheric sciences. |
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Faculty Beese honored for early contributions to materials research at TMS conference 04/02/2018 Allison Beese, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, received the 2018 Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award for exceptional promise in the field of mechanics of metallic materials and in particular, the advancement of mechanical metallurgy understanding in additive manufacturing. |
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Home Page Kuhn, Robinson receive 2018 Excellence in Advising Award 04/02/2018 Rebekka Kuhn, academic adviser in the Division of Undergraduate Studies, and Brandi Robinson, faculty adviser for the Energy and Sustainability Policy program in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, have been selected to receive the 2018 Penn State Excellence in Advising Award. |
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Faculty Award recognizes Liu's leadership in materials, alloy science 04/01/2018 Zi-Kui Liu, distinguished professor of materials science and engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, received the 2018 William Hume-Rothery Award for his exceptional contributions to the science of alloys during the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society's (TMS) Annual Meeting and Exhibition, held March 11-15 in Phoenix. |
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Home Page Passion for rocks takes student from Trinidad to Penn State to South Africa 03/28/2018 When she was 7 years old, Trinidad and Tobago native Safiya Alpheus searched for fossils in her backyard, starting her passion for geology, which solidified in high school. Her love of rocks led her to Penn State to study geosciences in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. |
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Faculty Wider coverage of satellite data better detects magma supply to volcanoes 03/28/2018 Using satellite imaging, Penn State researchers for the first time identified a major magma supply into a reservoir extending almost 2 miles from the crater of a volcano in Nicaragua. |
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Graduate Student EMS graduate programs among nation’s best in recent U.S. News rankings 03/27/2018 In the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate schools, Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) has highly ranked programs in the both the engineering and sciences categories. |
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Graduate Student 41 graduate students earn awards at 33rd annual Graduate Exhibition 03/27/2018 Forty-one graduate students received awards for their research and creative scholarship in the 33rd annual Graduate Exhibition, held March 23 and 25 on Penn State's University Park campus. A complete list of winners is available below. |
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VP of bipartisan think tank to discuss 'The Kremlin Playbook' on March 29 03/25/2018 Heather A. Conley, senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic and director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., will deliver a lecture titled "The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russia's New Generation Warfare" at 4 p.m. March 29 in Room 116 of the Lewis Katz Building on Penn State's University Park campus. |