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Jean Paul Allain, Huck Chair Professor and head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering in the College of Engineering at Penn State, was appointed to serve on the Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee. 

A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars. 

Kaitlyn Spangler, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography at Penn State, will discuss issues relating to crop diversity in her talk "Beyond corn, soy and wheat? Re-imagining a diverse U.S. agricultural landscape.”

Nelson Dzade, assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering at Penn State, will provide a snapshot of the status and future direction of the field of computational materials science, and will illustrate developments from his most recent work in using first-principles calculations to unravel the microscopic fabric of surface and interfacial phenomena in thin-film solar cells. 

Lisa Witzig has been appointed director of Penn State’s Center for Security Research and Education. 

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 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.

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.

Luis Ayala, professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering and holder of the William A. Fustos Family Professor in Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State, has been honored as a distinguished member by the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Jenn Baka, associate professor of geography at Penn State, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to examine a new cracker plant’s impact on humans’ relationship to the environment and environmental policymaking.