Water community introduces new council members, director of research
The emerging Penn State Water Consortium announced personnel updates to the Penn State Water Council and the addition of a director of research.
New EMS museum collections manager brings exhibit experience as space reopens
For the past few months, Patti Wood Finkle, the new collections manager, has been busy sifting through the EMS Museum & Art Gallery’s vast collection of roughly 20,000 items.
21 graduate students receive National Science Foundation Grad Fellowship
Students from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences were among the 21 new National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recipients for the 2022-23 academic year.
Thermally regenerative battery produces ample energy using low-grade waste heat
A new process for creating thermally regenerative ammonia batteries improves their stability and affordability and may help address the country’s growing grid-scale energy storage problem, according to a team led by Penn State researchers.
Kimberly Lau to receive Young Scientist Award from Geological Society of America
Kimberly Lau, an assistant professor in Penn State’s Department of Geosciences and an associate in the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, is being honored by the Geological Society of America (GSA) with its 2022 Donath Medal, or Young Scientist Award.
After 11 years, struggles pay off for energy engineering graduate
At Penn State's spring commencement ceremony, when Avery Taylor fulfilled a long, often difficult journey to earning an energy engineering degree and began setting her sights on her next chapter, she cried seven times.
Penn State announces non-tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2022
Several faculty members in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences received non-tenure-line faculty promotions at Penn State, effective July 1, 2022.
NSF CAREER award to improve understanding on how porous materials fail
Yashar Mehmani, assistant professor in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, received a $629,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue an integrated modeling, experimental and educational plan to improve the basic understanding of failures in porous materials and develop a more accurate computational framework to predict them.
Graduate students awarded 2022 NASA Space Grant Fellowships
Seventeen Penn State graduate students have received 2022 NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant awards and been named graduate fellows.
Graduate students awarded 2022 NASA Space Grant Fellowships
Seventeen Penn State graduate students have received 2022 NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant awards and been named graduate fellows.