“We have a 10-year window, as we’ve been saying at the Club of Rome… If we do not actually meet a great deal of our targets already in the next 10 years, we will be committing collective suicide," said Sandrine Dixson-Declève, but assured the researchers gathered at the first international conference on the science of drawdown that this goal was indeed feasible and achievable.
Undergraduate students from across the country are returning to Penn State next week for the first international conference on the science of drawdown, the point at which greenhouse gases in the atmosphere begin to decline. The students, participants in this past summer’s Penn State Drawdown Scholars Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, will present results from their summer research projects from Sept. 16-18.
This fall, Penn State Berks welcomed 110 international students to the campus community. Of that number, 40 are new students. To help these students succeed, the college has implemented a variety of programs and events.
Spencer Szczesny, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Aman Dhawan, sports medicine orthopedic surgeon and associate professor with the Penn State College of Medicine, have been awarded one of two annual Grace Woodward Grants for Collaborative Research in Engineering and Medicine.
In mid-August, Penn State welcomed more than 1,200 new international students to the University. They join nearly 10,000 international students already studying at Penn State campuses around the commonwealth. One of the top destination schools for international students, the University has placed in the top 10 every year for the past decade, according to the Institute of International Education’s "Open Doors" report.
Hurricane Dorian's unusual evolution represented a worst-case scenario for the Bahamas, according to experts at Penn State.
Almost 80 years to the day since its outbreak, top scholars from around the world will gather at Penn State's University Park campus to explore new ways of thinking about World War II. “World War II and the Middle East,” will take place Sept. 9 and 10 at various locations on campus. All events are free and open to the public.
David Baker, professor of sociology, education, and demography in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts and College of Education, has been appointed as a guest professor of educational science at the University of Luxembourg for the next three years.
More than 20 Penn State researchers are participating in the upcoming climate solutions conference Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown. Overall, more than 70 speakers will be presenting at the event, which will take place Sept. 16-18 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.
Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown, the conference focused on climate solutions being hosted at Penn State from Sept. 16-18, will be livestreamed online for free. Interested viewers can see the conference agenda for what is planned during the three-day event, which is sold out.
Three Penn State researchers — Rachel Brennan, in the College of Engineering, and Mike Jacobson and Brian Thiede, in the College of Agricultural Sciences — recently received $250,000 in University Strategic Plan seed funding to address global Water-Energy-Food challenges.
What can Pennsylvanians do to reverse global warming? That’s the question Penn State Brandywine student Anna Nguyen is tackling through her podcast series, Drawing Down in Pennsylvania.
Travel grants available through Penn State Global Programs provide some of the resources to support faculty travel related to developing global awareness, global literacy and global competency among Penn State's undergraduate population and to promote global leadership in scholarship and international engagements for graduate students.
In 2018, Penn State and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia launched the Joint Collaboration Development Program, a jointly financed seed-fund program with the aim to collaborate on research projects. The first round of seed funding saw 23 projects funded. The two institutions have committed these seed funds for a second year, around the intersection of health and the environment.
More than half of people in the world, including in the United States, live alongside Aedes aegypti — the mosquito that transmits dengue, Zika and other often deadly viruses. Dengue virus, alone, infects nearly 400 million people worldwide each year. To reduce transmission of dengue to humans, scientists have introduced Wolbachia bacteria to A. aegypti mosquitoes. Now a team of international researchers has found that Wolbachia’s ability to block virus transmission may be maintained by natural selection, alleviating concern that this benefit could diminish over time.
