Impact Magazine 2023

Faculty Notes

• Luis Ayala, William A. Fustos Family Professor in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, was named head of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering. He also received the Regional Service Award from the SPE.
• Allison Beese, associate professor of materials science and engineering, was named co-director of the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition.
• Cynthia Brewer, professor of geography, was awarded the 2023 Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal by the International Cartographic
  Association.
• Guido Cervone, E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Professor of Geography and associate director of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, was elected president of the Natural Hazards section of the American Geophysical Union.
• Long-Qing Chen, Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was elected as a foreign member of the Academia Europaea.
• Hamid Emami-Meybodi, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering, was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty from SPE.
• Christopher Fowler, associate professor of geography and demography, received the 2023 Penn State Award for Faculty Outreach.
• José Fuentes, professor of atmospheric science, was elected as
  a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He also received the AGU Ambassador Award. He also was elected as a Fellow of the AAAS.

• Peter Heaney, professor of geosciences, received a 2023 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching from Penn State.
• Russell Johns, professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering, received the 2023 SPE/AIME Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal from the International Society of Petroleum Engineers for technical leadership.
• Zuleima Karpyn, associate dean for graduate education and
  research in EMS and Donohue Family Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, was awarded the Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award from SPE.
• James Kasting, Evan Pugh University Professor Emeritus of
  Geosciences at Penn State, was named an Atherton Professor by Penn State.
• Brian King, department head and professor of geography, was named a Fellow of the Big Ten Academic Alliance.
• Kimberly Lau, associate professor of geosciences, was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship.
• Wenjie Li, associate research professor of materials science and
  engineering, received a 2023 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award.
• Zi-Kui Liu, Dorothy Pate Enright Professor in MatSE, was recognized by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society for his impact on the fields of computational materials science and
  materials design with an honorary symposium.
• Jon-Paul Maria, professor of materials science and engineering,
  received a 2023 Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement from Penn State.
• Paul Markowski, distinguished professor of meteorology, was
  named head of the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at Penn State.

• Dipanjan Pan, Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine and professor of materials science and engineering, was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
• Emily Rosenman, assistant professor of geography, was named
  a Social Science Research Institute Mentored Faculty Fellow for 2023-24.
• Erica Smithwick, distinguished professor of geography, was
  named director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State.
• Sanjay Srinivasan, professor of petroleum and natural gas
  engineering, was named director of the EMS Energy Institute.
• Ezgi Toraman, assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering and chemical engineering, was one of twelve early-career scientists named to Chemical & Engineering News’ 2023 “Talented 12” list.
• Christelle Wauthier, associate professor of geosciences, was
  elected president president of the Natural Hazards section of the American Geophysical Union.
• Peter Wilf, professor of geosciences, was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.