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Sustainability Jan. 29 EarthTalks to discuss urban population effects on urban water quality 01/23/2024 Peter Groffman, professor at City University of New York and senior research fellow at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, will give the talk, “Bio-geo-socio-chemistry of urban watersheds,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 29. |
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3D Earth and Mineral Science Museum exhibit imagines life in time of dinosaurs 01/23/2024 Graduate student Kaitlyn Horisk spearheaded a new exhibit, "Cretaceous Oceans and Climate," in the EMS Museum and Art Gallery. |
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Salas-SantaCruz to discuss 'Trans Identity and Space' in Geography Coffee Talk 01/19/2024 Omi Salas-SantaCruz will give the talk "Wellness-Territorio: A Decolonial Feminist Geographical Method for the Study of Trans* Student World-Making" at Coffee Hour lecture on Friday, Feb. 2. |
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Student Energy and sustainability student participates in UN climate change conference 01/19/2024 Olivia McMahon, a recent energy and sustainability policy graduate, attended the United Nations’ conference on climate change in Dubai late in 2023 and is inspired to do her part to take action in her community. |
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Graduate Student Online geospatial certificate program receives accreditation 01/18/2024 Penn State has received industry accreditation for a certificate in its online geospatial portfolio. USGIF recognized Penn State’s Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence Analytics, |
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Sustainability EarthTalks: Obonyo to discuss sustainable and resilient buildings, Jan. 22 01/17/2024 Esther Obonyo, associate professor of engineering design and architectural engineering, will give the talk, “Building SURE (Sustainable and Resilient) Communities,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 22. |
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Faculty Meteorology professor named president-elect of the American Meteorology Society 01/17/2024 David Stensrud, professor of meteorology, has been voted president-elect of the American Meteorological Society and will be inducted on, Jan. 28, during the 104th AMS Annual Meeting. |
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Faculty New museum director pulls from the past, readies collections for future 01/17/2024 Chris Widga has been appointed as the new director of the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery, which boasts a vast and varied collection of roughly 20,000 items, from gemstones, to industrial safety equipment, to paintings of industry. |
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Faculty Integrating dimensions to get more out of Moore’s Law and advance electronics 01/10/2024 Moore's Law, a fundamental scaling principle for electronic devices, forecasts that the number of transistors on a chip will double every two years, ensuring more computing power — but a limit exists. |
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Faculty $1.1M NSF grant to fund statewide cyberinfrastructure project 01/09/2024 Researchers at the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), together with collaborators at other institutions within Pennsylvania, have been awarded approximately $1.1 million in funding under the U.S. National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure program to develop a commonwealth-wide secure network and related cyberinfrastructure to interconnect Pennsylvania colleges and universities. |
