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Suvrat Dhanorkar

Craigslist, other online exchanges, may be good for the environment

4/18/18

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.

Tim Farrell at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Alumnus helps people experience nature for the first time

10/23/17

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.

Young man walking down a sidewalk

Adding grads and going green can brighten economic outlook

3/29/17

Attracting college graduates and improving natural amenities -- parks, hiking trails, cleaner air -- can combine to boost economic growth. Penn State researchers suggest the factors may reinforce each other -- a clean environment attracts college grads who want to improve the environment.

Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology Student Symposium, April 21-22

3/17/17

The Penn State Student Association of Environmental Science and Engineering will hold the 20th annual Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology Student Symposium 5-9 p.m. on April 21 and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on April 22 in the Forest Resources Building. Abstract submission deadline is March 24.

Susan Spear talking to students

U.S. Forest Service leaders discuss agency’s past, future

5/4/16

Susan Spear, director of the U.S. Forest Service's Wilderness and Wild & Scenic Rivers programs in Washington, D.C., recently spoke to Penn State students and faculty members about the 110-year-old agency’s history and future.

Healthy little brown bat hanging from a cave ceiling

Emergency bat signals

10/30/15

Like a dependable flock of third-shift insect-control workers, bats can eat up to 3,000 insects every night. Now the once-plentiful nocturnal master of northeastern summers is threatened by a mysterious fungal disease. Researchers say that during the last decade, white-nose syndrome has decimated much of the region’s cave-dwelling bat populations, and cratered entire bat species.

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