Graduate Student 'Dead clades walking': Fossil record provides new insights into mass extinctions 04/20/2021 Mass extinctions are known as times of global upheaval, causing rapid losses in biodiversity that wipe out entire animal groups. Some of the doomed groups linger on before going extinct, and a team of scientists found these "dead clades walking" (DCW) are more common and long-lasting than expected. |
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Faculty EESI EarthTalks panel to discuss how to avoid a global hothouse 04/20/2021 Solutions for limiting global warming range from the experimental, such as solar geoengineering, to economic incentives like carbon pricing will be discussed at an EESI EarthTalks at 4 p.m. Monday, April 26. |
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Faculty Six receive Faculty Scholar Medals 04/19/2021 Six Penn State faculty members have received 2021 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement, including John Mauro and Joshua Robinson in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. |
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Faculty Associate Vice Provost for Global Programs Rob Crane to retire July 2021 04/14/2021 Penn State Global Programs has announced that Associate Vice Provost Rob Crane will retire in July 2021 from the University after 36 years as a faculty member and an administrator. |
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Faculty Penn State undergraduate digs into the past through fossil leaves 04/14/2021 As a child, Edward Spagnuolo dreamed of dinosaurs and hunting for fossils buried in the ground. He never outgrew the phase, and he eventually chased his dream to Penn State. Now a junior majoring in geobiology, Spagnuolo has found a new avenue for pursuing his passion - fossil leaves. |
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Faculty Four projects receive research computing support through institute's seed grants 04/14/2021 The Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) has awarded the first round of RISE seed grants, made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation. |
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Student Wind Energy Club prepares to compete in Collegiate Wind Competition 04/14/2021 Each year since 2014, the Penn State Wind Energy Club has competed in the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Collegiate Wind Competition, taking home more first place wins than any other team. With hard work, flexibility and new, creative designs, they plan to do the same this year. |
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Climate dynamics seminar to discuss university role in combating climate change 04/14/2021 Erica Smithwick, distinguished professor of geography at Penn State, will discuss a vision for a university-wide climate consortium and Penn State's role in combating climate change during a seminar at 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday, April 21. |
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Alumni Penn State grad used meteorology, technology to drive multi-pronged career 04/13/2021 Penn State alumnus Joe Gofus remembers precisely when he knew that he wasn't going to become a weather forecaster. |
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Alumni Couple establishes fund to support student research in interdisciplinary science 04/13/2021 Marilyn Fogel, who graduated in 1973 with a degree in biology, may have come to Penn State for the football games, but she left with an appreciation for the interdisciplinary research that would define her career. |