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Faculty Six receive Faculty Scholar Medals 04/11/2022 Six University faculty members have received 2022 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement. |
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Faculty Geography professors Suárez, Gaertner named TRELIS Fellows 04/11/2022 Two assistant teaching professors in Penn State's Department of Geography have received fellowships to a highly sought-after leadership development workshop for women educators in STEM and geospatial science. |
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Faculty Coffee Hour to discuss spatial data collection in challenging environments 04/06/2022 Andrew Curtis, professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, will discuss his work responding to the pandemic and how his earlier work during Hurricane Katrina informed his approach to COVID-19, during a talk at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 15. |
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Faculty Carbon flow through inland and coastal waterways, implications for climate 04/05/2022 A recent study found that the flows of carbon through the complex network of water bodies that connect land and ocean has often been overlooked and that ignoring these flows overestimates the carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems and underestimates sedimentary and oceanic carbon storage. |
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Interdisciplinary Penn State team awarded SOM Foundation Research Prize 03/31/2022 An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers was awarded $40,000 as a recipient of the Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) Foundation 2021 Research Prize for a project that explores mycelium-based and knitted textiles to form a sustainable building material. |
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Faculty Flavored tobacco sales restrictions impact availability, advertising 03/31/2022 Flavored tobacco products play a large role in leading youth into addiction, and it is estimated that three out of four youth smokers will continue to smoke well into adulthood, according to the U.S. surgeon general. |
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Faculty Meltwater drainage, break-away icebergs linked at shrinking Helheim Glacier 03/31/2022 Dark patches of open sea that appear in the ice-choked water around Helheim Glacier may reveal new clues about how a rapidly changing Greenland glacier loses ice, according to a Penn State-led team of scientists. |
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Faculty Penn State engineering rises in U.S. News & World Report graduate rankings 03/30/2022 In the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Engineering Programs rankings released March 29, engineering at Penn State University Park ranked No. 32 overall, advancing one place from last year's report, and No. 18 among public institutions. |
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Faculty Panel discussion: 'Climate Change: Our Response as Artists' on April 6 03/29/2022 A panel discussion, "Climate Change: Our Response as Artists," will feature artists from Small Island Big Song to discuss the impacts of climate change and explore how art can influence our relationship with the environment. |
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Faculty Penn State's 'Living Filter' to be the focus of wastewater reuse conference 03/28/2022 More than a half-century of research on the use of treated wastewater for irrigation and groundwater recharge will be the focus of a three-day conference hosted by Penn State April 5-7 at the Wyndham Garden hotel in Boalsburg. |