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The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ GEMS Showcase will feature an early career panel with recent alumni

College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Early Career Panel scheduled for Oct. 3 09/25/2019

The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ (EMS) 2019 Graduates of Earth and Mineral Sciences (GEMS) Showcase will feature an early career panel with recent alumni.

Research Unplugged, the popular conversation series with Penn State researchers, begins Oct. 3 in in Schlow Library

Fall Research Unplugged speaker series returns to Schlow Library starting Oct. 3 09/24/2019

Research Unplugged, the popular series of stimulating conversations with Penn State researchers, returns to Schlow Centre Region Library in October.

A wind farm in the Tehachapi mountains of California.

Model helps choose wind farm locations, predicts output 09/23/2019

The wind is always blowing somewhere, but deciding where to locate a wind farm is a bit more complicated than holding up a wet finger. Now a team of Penn State researchers have a model that can locate the best place for the wind farm and even help with 24-hour predictions of energy output.

New geography faculty: Luke Trusel, Trevor Birkenholtz, Emily Rosenman, Helen Greatrex, Manzhu Yu, and Panagiotis Giannakis

The new geographers: Six faculty hires are driving the future of the field 09/19/2019

Six new tenure-line geography faculty started this fall in the Department of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

Cores taken from the Chicxulub crater show impact melt rock (left) and shocked granitoid (right)

New research details first days after asteroid strike that killed off dinosaurs 09/19/2019

Researchers have found new evidence that supports the theory that an that an asteroid impact led to the demise of the dinosaurs, painting the clearest picture yet of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.