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Robert Hickey, associate professor of materials science and engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, will receive the American Physical Society’s 2025 John H. Dillon Medal.

The NIH has awarded Zhenlong Li a two-year, $399,391 grant to study how environmental factors contribute to obesity, particularly in racial and ethnic minority communities.

Zuleima Karpyn, Donohue Family Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, and associate dean for graduate education and research in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, was recently named a distinguished member by the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

This fall, the Penn State Mining Engineering program invited engineers worldwide to Pittsburgh for the 7th International Symposium on Mine Safety Science and Engineering.

The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School at Penn State named 110 graduate students as recipients of the 2024-25 University Graduate Fellowships and Distinguished Graduate Fellowships. 

Alan Taylor's career will be honored with a two-part celebration a symposium, “Forests of Change: Looking to the Past to Understand the Future - Reflections on a Career" and a "Celebration of Achievements."

Penn State professor Susan Brantley is one of 11 inductees named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania for 2024. 

A recently developed electronic tongue is capable of identifying differences in similar liquids, such as milk with varying water content.

 With voter registration deadlines fast approaching around the country, Penn State News spoke with Chris Fowler, associate professor of geography and demography at Penn State, about his research into the nation’s voter rolls.

The Penn State Department of Geography will continue its fall 2024 "Coffee Hour" lecture series with a talk by Anne Bonds, professor of geography and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.