Passion for rocks takes student from Trinidad to Penn State to South Africa
When she was 7 years old, Trinidad and Tobago native Safiya Alpheus searched for fossils in her backyard, starting her passion for geology, which solidified in high school. Her love of rocks led her to Penn State to study geosciences in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
EMS graduate programs among nation’s best in recent U.S. News rankings
In the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate schools, Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) has highly ranked programs in the both the engineering and sciences categories.
41 graduate students earn awards at 33rd annual Graduate Exhibition
Forty-one graduate students received awards for their research and creative scholarship in the 33rd annual Graduate Exhibition, held March 23 and 25 on Penn State's University Park campus. A complete list of winners is available below.
VP of bipartisan think tank to discuss 'The Kremlin Playbook' on March 29
Heather A. Conley, senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic and director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., will deliver a lecture titled “The Kremlin Playbook: Understanding Russia’s New Generation Warfare” at 4 p.m. March 29 in Room 116 of the Lewis Katz Building on Penn State's University Park campus.
Designing a new material for improved ultrasound
Development of a theoretical basis for ultrahigh piezoelectricity in ferroelectric materials led to a new material with twice the piezo response of any existing commercial ferroelectric ceramics, according to an international team of researchers from Penn State, China and Australia.