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Faculty Penn State joins $72 million NASA consortium to study Earth system science 11/08/2021 Understanding how Earth and its atmosphere behave in their natural settings and under the impact of human influence is the focus of a new $72 million consortium funded by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Faculty AI behind deepfakes may power materials design innovations, scientists say 11/08/2021 The person staring back from the computer screen may not actually exist, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) capable of generating convincing but ultimately fake images of human faces. Now this same technology may power the next wave of innovations in materials design, according to Penn State scientists. |
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Student Energy engineering undergrad participating in Students Teaching Students 11/04/2021 Launched in the spring of 2020 by Liberal Arts student Josie Krieger and alumnus Michael Miller, the Students Teaching Students program at Penn State offers a unique opportunity for students to create, plan and teach official courses. |
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Faculty EarthTalks to discuss drivers of tropical forest decline in Indonesia, Brazil 11/03/2021 Mark Cochrane, professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Appalachian Laboratory, will deliver a talk titled "Changing fire regimes in Indonesia and Brazil: the roles of fire and land use in tropical forest decline" at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8. |
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Alumni Energy, economics, investment expert earns GEMS alumni award 11/02/2021 Peter Rigby, a 1979 Penn State graduate in petroleum and natural gas engineering, was awarded the 2021 Graduates of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (GEMS) Alumni Achievement Award and accepted the award in September at the college's Obelisk Society dinner. |
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Graduate Student Geointelligence work influenced Murphy Award winner’s focus on counterterrorism 11/01/2021 Daniel Selik, a student in the intercollege Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security (iMPS-HLS) degree program at Penn State and a retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer, received the 2021 Michael P. Murphy Award in Geospatial Intelligence. |
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Faculty Geography graduate student wins second place in 2021 ICDS Fall Symposium’s virtual poster presentation 11/01/2021 Harman Singh, a graduate student in geography, won the $200 second-place prize for a study that used a mixed-method approach to examine the nature of complex urban flooding in Kerala, India |
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Faculty Seed-grant recipients to put a human face on materials research 10/29/2021 The Materials Research Institute (MRI) and the College of Engineering have announced the recipients of the Materials Matter at the Human Level seed grants. |
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Faculty EarthTalks to examine history of fire in tropical Asia from ice age to present 10/26/2021 Rebecca Hamilton, postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute, will deliver a talk titled "Fire dynamics in tropical Asia: from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene" at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1. |
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Graduate Student Materials Research Institute names five Roy Award winners 10/26/2021 Yihuang Xiong, graduate research assistant in materials science and engineering, is one of five Penn State people to receive the 2021 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award. |