Professor to lead Center for Gas Turbine Research, Education, and Outreach
Jacqueline O’Connor, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, will lead the newly created Center for Gas Turbine Research, Education, and Outreach.
Nese instructs scholars to take 90-day weather forecasts with grain of salt
At one time or another, often in the mornings, Google gets asked the common question: “What is today’s weather?”
Penn State tops NSF rankings for breadth of research expertise
The breadth of Penn State’s research expertise surpasses that of any university in the country, according to the latest National Science Foundation rankings of Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) research expenditures by key fields and subfields, released in November 2019.
Talk by blind filmmaker part of Black History Month celebration
Aziza Baccouche, president and CEO of Aziza Productions, will give a talk titled “Seeking vision: The journey of a legally blind physicist and filmmaker,” at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in the Memorial Lounge of the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the University Park campus.
EarthTalks: Richard Alley discusses collapsing ice sheets, coastal communities
Richard Alley, Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences, will discuss how human-caused global warming is affecting ice sheets and impacting coastal communities at the next EarthTalks seminar at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, in 112 Walker Building.