By discovering a way to combine lithium salts with ceramics, researchers in the Penn State College of Engineering and the Penn State Materials Research Institute may have created a new class of materials for longer-lasting batteries. According to researchers, the composite nature of the batteries could make recycling easier, reducing landfill waste.
Farms — and particularly dairy farms — can play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, by adopting beneficial management practices, according to a team of researchers.
Dana Aunkst, armed with his Penn State chemical engineering degree, has taken on the biggest challenge of his career so far: restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
A lack of research on how news media from around the world covers climate change inspired Penn State scholar Juliet Pinto to join colleagues in studying environmental coverage from Latin America and the Caribbean. “News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean,” published by Palgrave Macmillan, won the 2019 AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize.
Penn State's Institutes of Energy and the Environment, in collaboration with the Center for Security Research and Education, will host a meeting on March 21 to discuss PFAS, synthetic chemicals that have been used in numerous industrial and consumer products and now are thought to be connected to health problems.
A new seed grant program titled “Materials for Enhancing Energy and Environmental Stewardship" offers at least $500,000 in funding. The deadline for applying is 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22.
Students in CHE 497: Chemical Engineering and the Environment produced engaging and creative videos that highlight various environmental issues and how chemical engineering can solve them.
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit proposals for seed grant funding that will support energy and environmental research conducted in Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories (EESL) facilities.
The Institutes of Energy and the Environment announced the availability of seed grant funds focused on energy and the environment. The deadline for proposals is Nov. 7. An informational webinar is scheduled for Oct. 10.
Mary Ellen and Tom Litzinger have established the $1.2 million Mary Ellen and Thomas A. Litzinger Endowment at Shaver’s Creek through a bequest to ensure educational opportunities and a sustainable future for Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center at Penn State.
Online exchanges, like Craigslist, may make it easier for people to give away rather than throw away items, keeping them out of landfills and easing the burden on municipal solid waste facilities. This is one way industry and government can work together for a more sustainable economy, according to the researcher.
A screening of the independent film “Plastic Paradise” will be held at 7 p.m. on April 19 in the Flex Theatre of the HUB-Robeson Center at University Park. The event is free and open to the public.
Students are now able to sign up to compete for prizes in a poster session on financial literacy and sustainability on April 19.
“Bag It,” an award-winning feature-length film that takes a closer look at America’s dependence on plastic, will be shown at 7 p.m. on March 20 in the Flex Theatre of the HUB-Robeson Center at University Park.
For Timothy Farrell, who graduated from Penn State with a degree in recreation, park and tourism management, there is something special about seeing someone truly experience nature for the first time. As interpretive park ranger with the National Park Service at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, a unit of Gateway National Recreation Area just outside of New York City, Farrell interacts with visitors to help facilitate their understanding of the wildlife refuge through interpretive walks, group programs and other public programming.
