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For graduate students, being able to explain and sell your research in a brief, concise manner is a valuable career skill for finding jobs and landing research funding. With this in mind, the Materials Research Institute (MRI) is holding a call for participants involved in graduate materials or engineering research to enter the PPG Elevator Pitch Competition.

A recently approved research center will unite Penn State researchers to explore the use of artificial intelligence as a tool to dramatically accelerate the scientific process, an initiative that the center’s organizers say could rapidly accelerate scientific progress.

Penn State has launched an expanded initiative in artificial intelligence (AI), termed the AI Hub. It will bring together the University’s considerable resources and talent in AI to further advance its position as a global leader in the field. Sh

Each year, Penn State recognizes outstanding faculty and staff with annual awards in teaching and excellence. These awards highlight many of the University's faculty and staff who go above and beyond. 

This month, Penn State's Sustainability Institute (SI) and the Student Sustainability Advisory Council (SSAC) honored six Penn State students for their leadership and commitment to sustainability throughout their time at Penn State.

he 2021 Undergraduate Exhibition, held online between April 14 and 16, showcased the ingenuity of more than 190 Penn State undergraduates from across the commonwealth, who shared their research, creative activity or engagement experience with the Penn State community.

The social cost of methane — a greenhouse gas that is 30 times as potent as carbon dioxide in its ability to trap heat — varies by as much as an order of magnitude between industrialized and developing regions of the world, according to researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley and Penn State.

Solutions for limiting global warming range from the experimental, such as solar geoengineering, to economic incentives like carbon pricing will be discussed at an EESI EarthTalks at 4 p.m. Monday, April 26. 

Mass extinctions are known as times of global upheaval, causing rapid losses in biodiversity that wipe out entire animal groups. Some of the doomed groups linger on before going extinct, and a team of scientists found these “dead clades walking” (DCW) are more common and long-lasting than expected.

Six Penn State faculty members have received 2021 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement, including John Mauro and Joshua Robinson in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.