Penn State hosts roundtable on Opportunity Zones, housing affordability
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officials joined representatives from local, state and federal government, nonprofit, and private sectors for a Sept. 9 discussion hosted by the School of Public Policy.
Coffee Hour talk to explore urban expansion in the Amazon
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Roberta Mendonça De Carvalho will discuss how decades of urban growth and the creation of new municipalities have reshaped the Brazilian Amazon and its environment on Sept. 18 at University Park.
Sept. 18 talk to discuss improved models of earthquake-induced soil liquefaction
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Kaleigh Yost, assistant professor of geotechnical engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, will give the talk “Improving liquefaction modeling for partially saturated soils under fluctuating groundwater conditions” at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18, in 117 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building at University Park. The talk will able be available via Zoom.
Materials professor earns international award for ceramics innovation
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Clive Randall, Evan Pugh University Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State, has been named an inaugural recipient of the Inamori-KYOCERA Award, an international honor recognizing individuals whose scholarship, invention, technological innovation and international collaboration have substantially advanced the ceramics industry.
Visits to public points of interest can impact community health measures
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Adding place visitation data — geographical data points collected from millions of anonymous cell phone users with GPS-enabled devices — to a population health model increased the model’s predictive performance by an average of 7.5%, according to a new study. This improvement in predicting public health factors, including the rates of depression and binge drinking, may assist public policymakers and health planners.
Penn State Extension field survey workshop to help build conservation skills
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Those interested in building practical field survey skills can attend an upcoming hands-on workshop from the Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training, administered by Penn State Extension.
‘Using AI in Sustainability Careers’ webinar to be held Sept. 23
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Penn State Sustainability is kicking off its second year of sustainability career webinars with "Using AI in Sustainability Careers" on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Attendees may join in person in HUB 131 with a pizza watch party or synchronously over Zoom.
Pennsylvania’s aging levees are under pressure from scarce funding and severe weather
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Pennsylvania has over 180 levees that span approximately 155 miles (255 kilometers) and keep its rivers from flooding. They protect about 158,000 people and US$26.2 billion in property across the state, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.However, those levees are aging, and funding to maintain and improve them is becoming scarcer.
Opportunity Grant applications open for non-tenure-line faculty
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Non-tenure-line clinical, teaching and research faculty and professors of practice can now apply to the Opportunity Grant Professional Development Program for the 2027-28 academic year.
Penn State dairy experts help farm improve production and profits
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When milk fat levels began slipping at Seven Stars Dairy in Millerstown, the farm began looking for answers. An on-farm visit by Penn State dairy experts helped pinpoint the problem and identify a few small adjustments. Those changes helped reverse the months-long decline without adding labor or increasing feed costs.
Critical minerals and materials workshop fosters collaboration, partnerships
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Penn State showcased its leadership in critical minerals and materials research and workforce development through a recent three-day workshop that brought together nearly 150 representatives from academia, industry and government agencies.
$1.5M NSF grant to support K-12 learning with real-world educational dataset
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The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a research team at Penn State $1.5 million over three years to develop an educational dataset containing real industrial data. The team aims to bring their dataset to math classrooms in Pennsylvania school districts and identify ways to foster productive learning while addressing unproductive confusion.