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Researchers embark on first-ever slow earthquake drilling mission

3/8/18

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — This March and April, an international team of researchers will install monitoring equipment inside an active fault zone off the coast of New Zealand, in the Ring of Fire, in the first-ever scientific drilling mission specifically designed to study slow earthquakes.

tundra flowers

Spring is springing earlier in polar regions than across the rest of Earth

3/2/18

For every 10 degrees north from the equator you move, spring arrives about four days earlier than it did a decade ago, according to researchers from Penn State, U.C. Davis and the University of Minnesota Duluth. This northward increase in the rate of springtime advance is roughly three times greater than what previous studies indicated.

In situ rhenium doping of monolayer MoS2

The fine-tuning of two-dimensional materials

2/28/18

A new understanding of why synthetic 2-D materials often perform orders of magnitude worse than predicted was reached by teams of researchers led by Penn State. They searched for ways to improve these materials' performance in future electronics, photonics, and memory storage applications.

Dan Steiner

Geospatial intelligence students boost careers with online program

2/28/18

Dan Steiner knows a thing or two about assessing terrain, gathering knowledge sources and weighing human interactions — all things required in the field of geospatial intelligence — on the fly. The West Point graduate who served for seven years in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including leading an engineering company in combat during Operation Desert Storm, spent his life using these skills, first in the military, then for a pharmaceutical company, and currently for Orion Mapping, a geospatial intelligence business he founded three years ago.

Upper Red Eyes AMD

Researchers team up to tackle state's acid mine drainage problem

2/21/18

As Penn State researchers stood on the banks of Scalp Level Run, an acid mine drainage-polluted stream in Cambria County, a scientific question formed: How is nature removing toxic metals from the drainage at a rate faster than any other tested waters in the state, under pH conditions deemed too low to do so?

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Fellowship allows meteorology graduate student to advocate for diversity

2/20/18

Meteorology doctoral student Aara'L Yarber is one of three graduate students to receive the inaugural, competitive Next Generation Fellowship offered by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). She will be working with UCAR's Office of Diversity and Inclusion over the next two years to enhance her research and address issues of underrepresentation in STEM fields.

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10 Penn Staters to be honored with Alumni Achievement Award

2/20/18

The Penn State Alumni Association will honor 10 prominent young alumni at the Alumni Achievement Awards on March 23. Alumni Achievement Award recipients are nominated by an academic college or campus and invited by the president of the University to return to Penn State to share their expertise with students and the University community. Honorees demonstrate to students that Penn State alumni succeed in exceptional fashion at an early age.

The elms near Old Main

Interdisciplinary projects awarded seed grants from IEE

2/19/18

The 2017–18 Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) seed grant recipients have recently been awarded to 16 groups of interdisciplinary researchers at Penn State. This year nearly $350,000 have been awarded to more than 40 researchers in five colleges at University Park as well as at four campuses.

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