Sharon Miller: Inspiring Students for Careers in Science
Getting students excited about science often involves more than showing them the inside of a
textbook or a classroom. Miller knows that affording students the opportunity to participate
in research can make the difference.
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Clark Seipt: Helping farmers, one climate forecast at a time
The times they are a-changin’ — and so is the climate. Luckily, for the farmers in the Pampas region of Argentina, these changing times have also been characterized by advances in climate science and modeling. Read more »
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STATERs encourage Penn Staters
to go green and keep campus clean It's not hard to find members of STATERs -- a new campus-recognized student recycling organization -- in a crowd of thousands who are tailgating at a Penn State football home game. Read more » |
Penn State places first in
Shell Eco-marathon contest A team of engineering students from Penn State snagged a first-place finish recently in the 2008 Shell Eco-marathon. Read more » |
Climate Ethics and Real Climate
Make Time Magazine's Top 15 Green Websites Two websites created by Penn State researchers, Real Climate and ClimateEthics, were named in Time Magazine's list of top 15 green websites. Read more » |
Probing question: Why do whales
beach themselves? Whales are the largest marine mammals in the world — the smallest species weigh in at several tons. What causes these often fatal incidents? Read more » |
ConocoPhillips, Penn State partner on nationwide energy prize program The ConocoPhillips Energy Prize is an awards program that seeks to recognize new ideas and original, actionable solutions that can help improve the way the U.S. develops and uses energy. Read more » |
Penn State engineer named KAUST Investigator Bruce Logan, the Kappe professor of environmental engineering at Penn State, is one of 12 scientists to receive a Global Research Partnership (GRP) Investigator award from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Read more » |
Open Faculty Positions Penn State will be hiring 25 new faculty in energy science, engineering, and policy as part of an initiative to enhance an already vigorous program of environmental and energy research and education. Applications are invited for the first 9 positions. Read more » |