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Faculty California’s Dixie Fire shows impact of legacy effects, prescribed burns 06/27/2022 Fire history largely determined how severely the 2021 Dixie Fire burned, and low-severity fire treatments had the largest impact on reducing the worst effects of the fire, according to a Penn State-led research team. |
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Graduate Student Army Corps of Engineers officer is the 2022 Murphy Award recipient 06/22/2022 A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who is a Penn State World Campus student has received this year’s Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the geospatial intelligence community. |
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Popular Traditional American Indian Powwow to return in person June 25-26 06/22/2022 The popular Penn State Traditional American Indian Powwow — considered one of the finest traditional American Indian powwows in or outside of Indian Country — returns as an in-person, two-day event this weekend, June 25-26. |
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Student Energy 'crisis' brings engineering students face-to-face leadership experience 06/15/2022 One recent evening, three student teams shuffled into the Steidle Building and were swiftly handed a detailed corporate briefing on Blue Vector Gas, a fictitious national pipeline company. For this capstone course experience, students spent the next 21 hours assuming the role of company leaders. |
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Faculty Institutes partner on seed grants to promote computational climate research 06/15/2022 The Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) and the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences’ (ICDS) Research Innovations with Scientists and Engineers (RISE) team are working together to use computational power and human expertise to support research projects that can help create solutions affecting the climate and environment. |
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Faculty Geosciences professor named director of Penn State planetary science consortium 06/14/2022 Christopher House, professor of geosciences, will serve as director of the Consortium for Planetary and Exoplanetary Sciences and Technology (CPEST) at Penn State, effective July 1. |
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Faculty Rubbery camouflage skin exhibits smart and stretchy behaviors 06/13/2022 A Penn State-led collaboration has harnessed special properties to create an artificial skin that mimics both the elasticity and the neurologic functions of cephalopod skin, with potential applications for neurorobotics, skin prosthetics, artificial organs and more. |
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Student Many Penn State summer camps back in person for first time since 2019 06/13/2022 Some popular Penn State youth camps that moved online or were canceled altogether over the past two years will be back in traditional in-person camp mode this summer. |
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Faculty Materials Science and Engineering professor receives MRS Impact Award 06/07/2022 Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, distinguished professor of materials science and engineering and energy and geo-environmental engineering, has received the Materials Research Society’s 2022 MRS Impact Award. |
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Faculty Promising new materials mimic muscle structure and function 06/02/2022 Inspired by the structure of muscles, an innovative new strategy for creating fiber actuators could lead to advances in robotics, prosthetics, and smart clothing, according to a Penn State led team of scientists who discovered the process. |