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Water event to promote collaboration, networking among researchers, staff 09/21/2020

Penn State’s Water Council will hold an online event for individuals who are interested in learning about water events and meeting other water faculty and professional staff.

Rebecca Welch was one of two students to organize a virtual glass conference for young researchers across the globe

Student-led glass conference spotlights work of young researchers 09/15/2020

For students, losing the opportunity to attend summer conferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic meant even fewer chances to advance their academic careers.

Julien Kimmig and Rhiannon LaVine investigate exposed Spence Shale sediments in Spence Gulch, Indiana

New EMS museum collections manager to improve data, research, outreach 09/15/2020

For most people, starting a job during a global pandemic can prove difficult. But for museum collections managers, it turns out, things aren’t all bad.

Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of the Earth System Science Center, Penn State.

Michael Mann receives World Sustainability Award 09/14/2020

Michael E. Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State, will share the 2020 World Sustainability Award with Antonella Santuccione Chadha, co-founder and the CEO of the Women’s Brain Project and global medical manager for Alzheimer’s disease at Roche Diagnostics.

Five Penn State researchers have become cofunded faculty in the Institutes of Energy and the Environment

Five researchers join the Institutes of Energy and the Environment 09/14/2020

Five Penn State researchers have joined the Institutes of Energy and the Environment. This includes faculty members from the colleges of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Architecture, the Liberal Arts and Penn State Law.