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Alumni Penn State alumna reflects on how geography influences her filmmaking 10/21/2020 If you have viewed short documentary films about the 19th amendment on The New York Times website or national monuments on The Washington Post website this year, you have seen the work of Penn State alumna Megan Ruffe, a Schreyer Scholar who graduated in 2013, earning degrees in film production and geography. |
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Faculty Michael Mann selected to give Stephen Schneider Lecture at AGU 10/20/2020 Michael E. Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State, has been selected to give the Stephen Schneider Lecture at the American Geophysical Society's fall 2020 meeting, which will be held virtually in December. |
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Faculty EESI EarthTalks: Lessons from decade of mentoring underrepresented groups 10/19/2020 Sonya Legg and Colleen Mouw know what it takes to foster diverse research communities and will share the lessons they have learned with the Penn State community at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26. |
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Faculty Penn State alumna Melissa Hockstad to present R.E. Tressler Lecture 10/19/2020 Melissa Hockstad, president and CEO of the American Cleaning Institute (ACI), will deliver the 2020 Richard E. Tressler Lecture in Materials at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, via Zoom. |
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Faculty Glimpse deep into Earth's crust finds heat source that may stabilize continents 10/16/2020 Rocks from the Rio Grande continental rift have provided a rare snapshot of active geology deep inside Earth's crust, revealing new evidence for how continents remain stable over billions of years, according to a team of scientists. |
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Faculty Virtual EarthTalks seminars to discuss diversity in environmental sciences 10/16/2020 The EESI EarthTalks series "Changemaking made EESI: Fostering inclusive research communities in the Earth and environmental sciences" will explore new perspectives on initiatives that could increase diversity in environmental fields, with a particular slant toward Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS). |
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Faculty Ocean color satellites reveal glacier algae, insights for climate models 10/15/2020 The brownish-grey algae that darken the Greenland ice sheet in summer cause the ice to melt faster, but only recently have scientists measured these blooms in the field, and only at few sites. To measure algal blooms across large regions and understand their effects on melting over time, scientists are now turning to space. |
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Faculty To boldly go: Penn State launches planetary science consortium 10/13/2020 A new interdisciplinary planetary science initiative will focus efforts at Penn State on exploring and seeking out life in the solar system and far into the cosmos. |
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Faculty Penn State announces 2020 Faculty Fellows 10/13/2020 The 2020 cohort of Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) Faculty Fellows -- formerly known as faculty co-hires -- includes an interdisciplinary group of researchers who will use the University's computational resources to probe the world's biggest societal and social challenges. |
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Faculty Deep learning artificial intelligence keeps an eye on volcano movements 10/12/2020 Penn State researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to clear up noise in RADAR satellite data that can can help detect ground movements at volcanoes in near real time. |