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Arts Festival Annual Breakfast - RSVP
GEMS, the EMS Alumni Society, is hosting its annual Arts Festival Breakfast. Please stop by and share breakfast with fellow alumni as you reacquaint yourself with the College and visit with the Dean and his staff.
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Penn State meteorology team wins national forecasting competition
Penn State meteorology students recently captured first place in the Weather Challenge, a North American collegiate weather forecasting competition. Penn State's forecasters bested teams from more than 50 other universities. During the 20-week forecasting contest, which spanned both fall and spring semesters, students predicted high and low ...
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Research project aims to improve science learning, science teaching
State College teacher Bryan Brightbill wants his students to be well grounded - so his seventh graders at Park Forest Middle School have drawn geological cross-sections of central Pennsylvania's rock layers, identified rock samples and even made rocks out of sand and aquarium salt....
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Director of National Science Foundation to speak April 5 at Penn State
Subra Suresh, the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will speak on Thursday, April 5, in Heritage Hall at the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus. Part of this year's Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials, Suresh's presentation, titled "Biomechanics and Human Diseases," will begin at 11 a.m. The event will ...
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Underwater photographs and talks examine human effect on ecosystems
The photographic exhibit "Eyes to Sea: Underwater Photography by Jeremy Cohen" and accompanying presentations by Cohen, Raymond Najjar, Tim White and Iliana Baums will take place from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on April 22, in the Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Museum Art Gallery in the Deike Building on Penn State's University Park campus....
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Earth and Mineral Sciences exposition sees large turnout
Holding jet fuel, hand-blown glass, and a piece of Marcellus Shale in his hands as props to illustrate the diverse study opportunities available to students of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS), Dean William Easterling kicked-off the College's annual recruiting event, held on March 16-17 this year. All students who are considering an ...
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Architect appointed for Steidle Building renovation, preservation
Penn State's Board of Trustees Friday (March 16) approved the appointment of EYP Architecture and Engineering PC, of Albany, N.Y., as architects for the renovation of the Steidle Building in the historic core of the University Park campus. The 86,000-square-foot-building, near the intersection of Burrowes and Pollock roads, was built in 1931 and ...
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Environment Canada cuts threaten science, international agreements
Recent cuts to the scientific workforce of Environment Canada, a government agency responsible for meteorological services and environmental research, threaten scientific research related to the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere and pollution in the lower atmosphere, according to environmental scientists in the U.S. These reductions in personnel ...
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Tree rings may underestimate climate response to volcanic eruptions
Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change, because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even absent growing seasons, according to climate researchers who compared tree-ring temperature reconstructions with model simulations of past temperature ...
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Penn State scientists elected to American Geophysical Union
Michael Mann and David Pollard, both scientists in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, have been elected as Fellows of the American Geophysical Union for exceptional contributions in original research in climate change....
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Researchers meet at Virginia Institute of Marine Science to refine coastal ocean carbon budget
On January 23, 2012, a group of 35 researchers from institutions all along the eastern seaboard gathered at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science last week to further integrate and refine field measurements and computer models of carbon cycling in the waters along the U.S. East Coast. <<MORE>>
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Climate balancing: sea-level rise vs. surface temperature change rates
Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy, according to a team of University of Bristol and Penn State climate scientists. Designing the approach to control both sea level rise and rates of surface air temperature changes requires a balancing act to accommodate the diverging ...
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NSF study finds Penn State geoscientists in West Antarctica
This time of year the North Pole is wrapping things up. But in the southern hemisphere, at the WAIS Divide site in West Antarctica, Penn Staters are playing key roles in a major effort funded by the US National Science Foundation to study the history and flow of the great ice sheet. ...
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Rise of atmospheric oxygen more complicated than previously thought
The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock cores from the FAR DEEP project.
The Fennoscandia Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR DEEP) took place during the summer of ...
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Engelder named one of top 100 global thinkers
Terry Engelder, professor of geosciences at Penn State, has been named one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers" for 2011....
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Meteorologists Wyngaard, Thompson receive high honors
The American Meteorological Society has honored two Penn Staterts -- John C. Wyngaard, professor emeritus of meteorology, and Anne M. Thompson, professor of meteorology -- with top awards....
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Benavides honored with Penn State Alumni Fellow Award
Raul G. Benavides, vice president for business development of the Lima, Peru-based Compania de Minas Buenaventura, a socially conscious mining company dedicated to improving the wealth and prosperity of the country and its people, was recently named a Penn State Alumni Fellow....
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