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NSF graduate fellow looks deep within caves for answers to origin of life
Dani Buchheister, a doctoral student in geobiology and astrobiology, is among Penn State’s 21 new National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program recipients — six in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences — for the 2022-23 academic year.
Penn State GIS Day celebrates a world of possibilities, Nov. 14-15
Penn State University Libraries will observe GIS Day — an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS) — with a two-day event Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 14 and 15.
EarthTalks: Lexie Hain to discuss agricultural integration and solar facilities
Lexie Hain, director of agrivoltaics and land management at Lightsource bp, will introduce solar grazing as an agrivoltaic practice, and discuss ecosystem service considerations, as well as aspects of performance, professionalism, and potential implementation in her talk "Agricultural integration and solar facilities: Agrivoltaics in context" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24.
EarthTalks lecture to discuss large-scale solar trends, impacts and implications
Tom Murphy, director of the Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research at Penn State, will answer questions around solar development in his talk "Utility Scale Solar and Pennsylvania – Trends, Impacts, and Implications."
Museum exhibit honors science life of Penn State’s first president, Evan Pugh
To coincide with the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ (EMS) 125th anniversary celebration, the EMS Museum & Art Gallery is unveiling a new exhibit on Friday, Oct. 14, dedicated to Evan Pugh, a science pioneer and Penn State's first president.
Author Robin Wall Kimmerer to present 2022 Lattman Lecture
Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the New York Times’ best-selling “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants,” will give the 2022 Lattman Visiting Scholar of Science and Society Lecture.
Women in energy and water research seminar to feature Susan Altman on Oct. 13
The fall 2022 Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research seminar series continues on Thursday, Oct. 13, with two seminars by Susan Altman, deputy to the Energy and Homeland Security Portfolio at Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy national lab.
EarthTalks lecture to discuss solar and agriculture land use competition
Kaitlyn Spangler, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography at Penn State, will deliver the talk "Towards solar justice in Pennsylvania: tensions of land, farming, and power" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 10.
Student art exhibit draws from beauty found in Earth’s mantle
While examining thin sections of rocks in a microscope, Angelina Santamaria saw both research and art.
EarthTalks: Rob Altenburg to discuss solar policy and politics in Pa.
Rob Altenburg, director of the PennFuture Energy Center, will deliver the talk "Solar Policy and Politics in Pennsylvania" at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 3.