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	Faculty Jenni Evans named director of Institute for CyberScience 01/24/2017 Jenni Evans, professor of meteorology at Penn State, has been appointed director of Penn State's Institute for CyberScience (ICS). Evans had served as interim director of ICS since February 2016.
	Research Big Ten’s Geospatial Data Portal connecting access to GIS, historical map data 01/23/2017 The Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Portal Project, of which Penn State University Libraries is a contributor, has launched an online spatial data discovery tool called the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal. The project and geoportal aim to provide discoverability, facilitate access and connect scholars across the Big Ten Academic Alliance to often scattered geospatial data resources.
	Alumni Couple creates graduate research fund in honor of former Penn State professor 01/23/2017 Katherine Faber, a 1978 Penn State alumna, and her husband, Thomas Rosenbaum, have established the Guy Rindone Graduate Research Fund to further graduate education in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The fund was established in honor of Guy E. Rindone, professor emeritus of ceramic science and engineering, who died in 2015 at age 93.
	Climate change effects, solutions to be discussed on WPSU’s 'Conversations LIVE' 01/20/2017 Renowned climate change experts and Penn State professors Richard Alley and Michael Mann will discuss the effects of human-caused climate change and take viewers' questions during the next episode of WPSU Penn State's "Conversations LIVE" at 8 p.m. on Jan. 26.
	Faculty Fulbright takes researcher to Sweden to study new transistor materials 01/19/2017 Joan Redwing, Penn State professor of materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering, spent time at Lund University in Sweden as part of the Fulbright Scholar Program, through which she conducted research into semiconductor materials that could be used to power cell phones, laptops and other electronic devices in the future.
	Alumni Recent EMS alums serve as undergraduate poster exhibition judges 01/18/2017 Annie Tamalavage and Marla Korpar, both 2013 EMS graduates, were among a handful of judges who returned to Penn State's University Park campus to serve as judges for the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' (EMS) Undergraduate Poster Exhibition.
	Student Punxsutawney Phil visits Penn State 01/17/2017 The world-famous weather predictor Punxsutawney Phil made a special appearance at Penn State's Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science on the afternoon of Jan. 17.
	Research The effects of melting glaciers on tropical communities 01/16/2017 A Penn State professor is researching the trickle-down effects that melting tropical glaciers have on food security and biodiversity, and what regional communities, like Cusco and Huaraz in Peru, can do about it.
	Research Conservation practices may leave African indigenous populations behind 01/16/2017 Conservation and logging groups in Central and West Africa are failing to fully incorporate local concerns into management, marginalizing the livelihoods of the local population, according to Nathan Clay, doctoral candidate in geography, Penn State.
	Fifth-graders get hands-on science lessons at annual Shake, Rattle & Rocks event 01/12/2017 The three-day Shake, Rattle & Rocks program gave fifth-graders from the region the chance to experience what it means to be an earth scientist.