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Connection of sea level and groundwater missing link in climate response

4/2/18

About 250 million years ago, when the Earth had no ice caps and the water around the equator was too hot for reptiles, sea level still rose and fell over time. Now, an international team of researchers has developed a way to track sea-level rise and fall and to tease out what caused the changes in the absence of ice sheets.

Kuhn, Robinson receive 2018 Excellence in Advising Award

4/2/18

Rebekka Kuhn, academic adviser in the Division of Undergraduate Studies, and Brandi Robinson, faculty adviser for the Energy and Sustainability Policy program in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, have been selected to receive the 2018 Penn State Excellence in Advising Award.

Allison Beese

Beese honored for early contributions to materials research at TMS conference

4/2/18

Allison Beese, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, received the 2018 Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award for exceptional promise in the field of mechanics of metallic materials and in particular, the advancement of mechanical metallurgy understanding in additive manufacturing.

Six receive Faculty Scholar Medals

4/2/18

Six University faculty members have received 2018 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement -- John M. Carroll, distinguished professor of information sciences and technology; Neil Christensen, professor of pathology, and microbiology and immunology; Bernhard Luscher, professor of biology, biochemistry and molecular biology; Sandra Spanier, liberal arts professor of English; Qing Wang, professor of materials science and engineering; and Fuqing Zhang, professor of meteorology and atmospheric sciences.

Zi-Kui Liu receiving the William Hume-Rothery Award from David DeYoung.

Award recognizes Liu's leadership in materials, alloy science

4/1/18

Zi-Kui Liu, distinguished professor of materials science and engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, received the 2018 William Hume-Rothery Award for his exceptional contributions to the science of alloys during the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society’s (TMS) Annual Meeting and Exhibition, held March 11-15 in Phoenix.

Conley talk on March 29, 2018

VP of bipartisan think tank to discuss 'The Kremlin Playbook' on March 29

3/25/18

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.

Image of atoms in piezoelectric material

Designing a new material for improved ultrasound

3/22/18

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — 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.

Jenn Macalady

Geoscientist featured in documentary premiering at international film festival

3/19/18

“The Most Unknown” could not have been a more fitting documentary film title for Jenn Macalady, a Penn State geoscientist who is featured in the film. Macalady had no idea that a series of interviews — some conducted below nearly a mile of earth at Italy’s Gran Sasso research laboratory — would lead to a documentary premiering March 16 at CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. She even didn’t connect that the director, Ian Cheney, was one of the filmmakers responsible for “King Corn,” a documentary that impacted her early in her microbiology career.

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