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New EMS museum collections manager brings exhibit experience as space reopens 07/14/2022 For the past few months, Patti Wood Finkle, the new collections manager, has been busy sifting through the EMS Museum & Art Gallery’s vast collection of roughly 20,000 items. |
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Graduate Student 21 graduate students receive National Science Foundation Grad Fellowship 07/12/2022 Students from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences were among the 21 new National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recipients for the 2022-23 academic year. |
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Faculty Thermally regenerative battery produces ample energy using low-grade waste heat 07/11/2022 A new process for creating thermally regenerative ammonia batteries improves their stability and affordability and may help address the country’s growing grid-scale energy storage problem, according to a team led by Penn State researchers. |
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Faculty Kimberly Lau to receive Young Scientist Award from Geological Society of America 07/06/2022 Kimberly Lau, an assistant professor in Penn State’s Department of Geosciences and an associate in the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, is being honored by the Geological Society of America (GSA) with its 2022 Donath Medal, or Young Scientist Award. |
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Student After 11 years, struggles pay off for energy engineering graduate 07/05/2022 At Penn State's spring commencement ceremony, when Avery Taylor fulfilled a long, often difficult journey to earning an energy engineering degree and began setting her sights on her next chapter, she cried seven times. |
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Faculty Penn State announces non-tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2022 06/30/2022 Several faculty members in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences received non-tenure-line faculty promotions at Penn State, effective July 1, 2022. |
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Faculty Graduate students awarded 2022 NASA Space Grant Fellowships 06/30/2022 Seventeen Penn State graduate students have received 2022 NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant awards and been named graduate fellows. |
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Faculty NSF CAREER award to improve understanding on how porous materials fail 06/30/2022 Yashar Mehmani, assistant professor in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, received a $629,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue an integrated modeling, experimental and educational plan to improve the basic understanding of failures in porous materials and develop a more accurate computational framework to predict them. |
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Research Laser writing may enable ‘electronic nose’ for multi-gas sensor 06/29/2022 Environmental sensors are a step closer to simultaneously sniffing out multiple gases that could indicate disease or pollution, thanks to a Penn State collaboration. |
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Faculty Cervone named to inaugural cohort of AGU Local Science Partners program 06/29/2022 The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has named Guido Cervone, professor of geography, meteorology and atmospheric science and associate director of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State, to the inaugural cohort of the organization’s Local Science Partners program. |