Penn State Energy and Environment Calendar

Penn State's AI and the Economy Initiative brings together policymakers, practitioners and researchers from across the United States to exchange knowledge about the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the economy and society. 

Penn State's AI and the Economy Initiative brings together policymakers, practitioners and researchers from across the United States to exchange knowledge about the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the economy and society. 

In the UK, the hospitality sector generates 8% of the country’s total food waste. This has significant social, economic, and environmental costs. While restaurants already adopt a number of practices to reduce kitchen waste, plate waste remains a complex issue driven by service design and diner behaviour. This research draws on the Behaviour Change Wheel framework to develop an online experiment testing three interventions to reduce plate waste: direct server interactions with diners, indirect informational nudges, and a combination of both.

Register to join the industryXchange 2026: Engineering Innovation with AI. This collaborative event, led by the Penn State College of Engineering, will bring together Penn State faculty and graduate students and industry leaders to network, discuss industry needs, and explore artificial intelligence research opportunities.Scheduled concurrent breakouts include:

Register to join the industryXchange 2026: Engineering Innovation with AI. This collaborative event, led by the Penn State College of Engineering, will bring together Penn State faculty and graduate students and industry leaders to network, discuss industry needs, and explore artificial intelligence research opportunities.Scheduled concurrent breakouts include:

The availability and affordability of housing are critical issues in many communities across Pennsylvania. This webinar presents descriptive and economic analyses from a Rural Housing Affordability: 2013-2023 study to examine the variation in severity of these issues across the nation, with a particular focus on rural areas, which have been underrepresented in previous studies on housing livability.

2026 Women Advancing River Research Seminar SeriesCarbon Transport and Processing Across Land-Ocean ContinuumSuzanne Tank, University of Alberta, CanadaNuria Catalan, Centre d’Estudis Avancats de Blanes, SpainAll seminars will be presented online live at 11:00 a.m. ET on the third Thursday of each month. Seminar recordings will be posted later. Please register in advance for all talks. 

The Life Sciences Symposium (LSS) is an annual meeting organized by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Huck Graduate Student Advisory Committee (HGSAC) at Penn State. This year's theme is From Protocols to Pipelines: Connecting Bioinformatics with Experimental Biology. Since 2015, this free, all-day event has brought together hundreds of Penn State researchers from diverse scientific fields, promoting unique research collaborations, funding, and networking opportunities. The LSS features keynote speakers, student research presentations and posters, awards, and more.

Sponsored by PPG Industries, the 12th Annual Elevator Pitch Competition is an opportunity to pitch your research in TWO minutes or less, using no more than four supporting slides. Graduate students will briefly convey their research to a curious and technically diverse audience in hopes of taking home CASH PRIZES and developing new COLLABORATIONS.Competition DateJune 3, 20269:30 a.m. - 12:00 noonTop 5 pitches will present live at 11:30 am.

The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences traces its origins back 130 years, born of an interdisciplinary approach to supporting workforce development for the extractive industries (mining, and then also petroleum engineering). Today, that same interdisciplinary focus is aimed at society’s grand challenges in energy and environment. We’ll look at current research breakthroughs, from LionGlass to severe weather prediction, human origins, volcanic eruptions and ice-sheet collapse, wildfire, the extraction of rare-earth-elements while treating acid mine drainage, and more.

Research ethics shape the quality, credibility, and impact of our work across every discipline. Penn State’s inaugural Research Ethics Conference brings together scholars, practitioners, and institutional leaders to explore emerging challenges and practical strategies for fostering integrity in today’s rapidly changing research environment.The one-day event will also recognize and celebrate individuals who exemplify integrity, accountability, and ethical leadership in research with the presentation of four awards. Registration and award nominations will open this summer.