Associate Vice Provost for Global Programs Rob Crane to retire July 2021
Penn State Global Programs has announced that Associate Vice Provost Rob Crane will retire in July 2021 from the University after 36 years as a faculty member and an administrator.
Penn State grad used meteorology, technology to drive multi-pronged career
Penn State alumnus Joe Gofus remembers precisely when he knew that he wasn’t going to become a weather forecaster.
Couple establishes fund to support student research in interdisciplinary science
Marilyn Fogel, who graduated in 1973 with a degree in biology, may have come to Penn State for the football games, but she left with an appreciation for the interdisciplinary research that would define her career.
Seminar to discuss role of social memory in climate change adaptation
Kristina Douglass, Joyce and Doug Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and assistant professor of anthropology and African studies at Penn State, will discuss the importance of local, Indigenous and descendant knowledge to climate change adaptation and sustainable practices during a seminar at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, April 14. The talk will be broadcast via Zoom.
EarthTalks: Sir Dieter Helm to discuss carbon pricing as tool to reach net zero
Sir Dieter Helm, professor of economic policy at the University of Oxford and fellow in economics at New College, Oxford, will discuss the need for a carbon price as a means of lowering emissions at a talk at noon on Monday, April 19.