Penn State Energy and Environment News

Search launched for new dean of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences

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Penn State is seeking nominations and candidates for the next dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences.

Penn State Global announces faculty and staff Travel Awards Program for 2024

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Penn State Global is announcing Faculty and Staff Travel Awards for 2024. These awards are given on a rolling basis and are meant to support faculty and staff travel related to developing or expanding collaboration with select Penn State global partner universities and organizations.

Series to raise awareness of characterization resources available at Penn State

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Event series offers Penn State researchers a look at characterization resources available to them. 

DEIB agile teams move student support, faculty and staff hiring efforts forward

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Four DEIB agile service teams continue to move forward on efforts to bring greater equity to Penn State’s faculty, staff and students.

Penn State’s Materials Research Institute Open House will showcase space and equipment to potential partners

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Penn State’s Materials Research Institute and the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE) are hosting a free happy-hour-style industry open house for corporate, academic and government prospective partners.

Advance your company through intrapreneurship: Learn how, at the Penn State Conference on Intrapreneurship

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Through initiatives, events, and organizations like Happy Valley LaunchBox and Startup Week, the university is encouraging students and community members alike to solve the world’s problems via entrepreneurialism. That said, not everyone’s cut out for the entrepreneurial life, which is where intrapreneurship comes in. Intrapreneurship poses the idea that smart, innovative changemakers don’t need to launch their own businesses in order to make a difference.

Research to better understand early Earth diversity supported by Ford Foundation

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Kayla Irizarry, doctoral candidate in geosciences at Penn State, is using her Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship to better understand what controlled diversity in Earth’s earliest complex ecosystems.

Forum to highlight the power of connection, collaboration with HBCUs

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Penn State faculty and staff seeking to discover ways to build and improve partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), as well as community members seeking to learn the importance of HBCUs, are invited to attend “The Power of HBCUs: Establishing and Strengthening Partnerships,” on Feb. 26.

Microplastics have been found in breast milk. Will that hurt my baby?

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As a breastfeeding mom of two, I wondered: Should I be worried? Is breast milk still really best? This article quotes Sherri Mason, associate research professor and director of sustainability at Penn State Behrend.

Libraries to offer spring workshops on maps, GIS, GPS and data visualization

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Beginning Feb. 15, the Research Informatics and Publishing department and the Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps and Geospatial Information at Penn State University Libraries will offer three workshops on maps, GIS, GPS and data visualization. Workshops are free and open to Penn State undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, staff and faculty.

Annual Global Gallery highlighting international ag research slated for Feb. 23

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The annual Global Gallery symposium, hosted by the international agriculture and development dual-title graduate program in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and its student association, will feature the international research efforts of faculty and graduate students.

Penn State student, faculty attend UN Climate Change Conference

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Among the heads of state and world leaders that met in Dubai from Nov. 30 to Dec. 13 of last year was a select delegation of Penn State community members.