Professor Yue Zhang will present her work, "Distributed 3D Printing of Spare Parts via IP Licensing," as part of the Center for the Business of Sustainability Research Seminar Series. Registration is required. To attend, please contact Tracey Mariner for registration information: tcd119@psu.edu.
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The Penn State Global SAC invites you to join Dr. Esther Obonyo and Dr. Erica Smithwick for their presentation, “Global Education and COP26.” Both participated at the latest UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), which really put front and center the climate change crises, and where world leaders were negotiating, but also innovating, on how to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy Initiative Seminar presents "Leakage in Regional Climate Policy? Implications of Electricity Market Design"
The Department of Geosciences Colloquium Series presents Aaron Velasco, University of Texas El Paso.
Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are getting larger, more destructive and deadly. Both humans and climate are contributing to this trend. The Fall 2021 EESI EarthTalks series, “Fire in the Earth System,” will address humanity’s long relationship with fire, how humans and climate create conditions conducive to megafires, and how policy makers and land managers can address the fire problem.
The seminars, which are free and open to the public, take place from 4 – 5 p.m. on Mondays via Zoom.
The impending end of Moore’s Law has prompted a search for a new computing technology with vastly lower energy consumed per operation than silicon CMOS. The recent discovery of topological phases of matter offers a possible solution: a “topological transistor” in which an electric field tunes a material from a conventional insulator “off” state to a topological insulator “on” state, in which topologically protected edge modes carry dissipationless current.
A panel of energy experts from Penn State and industry will discuss the reasons behind rising oil and gas prices; what it means for heating bills this winter; potential policy responses to keep energy prices in check; and how rising prices might encourage or thwart a transition to alternative sources of energy. The discussion, which is free and open to the public, will be broadcast at 1 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 29, via Zoom.
Join us for this 90-minute webinar on Monday 29th November to hear about two shelter and settlement projects led by Catholic Relief Services in Myanmar and Nepal.
The Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center will host the Lancaster-Lebanon Watershed Forum and Science Symposium Nov. 19 and 20, 2021.
Penn State Graduate Students: The Cornell Biogeochemistry Lecture Series Watch Parties will be held in the Millennium Science Complex Room W203.
Attendees will learn about the earth's biogeochemical cycling by world experts and will hear about some of the most pressing biogeochemical questions across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
The last decade has seen an exponential growth in the science and technology of two-dimensional materials. Beyond graphene, there is a huge variety of layered materials that range in properties from insulating to superconducting that can be grown over large scales for a variety of electronic devices and quantum technologies, such as topological quantum computing, quantum sensing and neuromorphic computing. In this talk, Robinson will discuss recent breakthroughs in synthesis and doping of 2D semiconductors and the realization of unique 2D forms of traditional 3D metals.
The Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center will host the Lancaster-Lebanon Watershed Forum and Science Symposium Nov. 19 and 20, 2021.
Technical Seminar
This presentation will describe the use of three analytical tools - life cycle analysis (LCA) coupled with scenario analysis, social LCA, and material flow analysis – to establish guideposts and guardrails towards reducing fossil energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from energy and material systems.
The National Academies’ Committee to Advise the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) (“the Committee”) is using its convening authority to support USGCRP’s engagement with a wide range of potential users in its work.
Experiential Seminar with Q&A
Discussion and Q&A with Jennifer Dunn, associate director of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering and the associate director of Northwestern’s Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience, about their unique career that has included positions in government, consulting, the national laboratories, and academia.
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics hosts Joanne Emerson, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California - Davis
Join us for the Soundings water film series co-presented by Penn State’s Sustainability Institute, Penn State’s Water Council, and WPSU. This series explores the intersecting issues surrounding water conservation and the innovative research and policy solutions addressing these issues around the world.
Amanda L. Reddy will deliver the 2021 Hankin Distinguished Lecture, hosted by the residential construction program and the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center (PHRC). Her talk, “Florence Nightingale Was Right: The Central Role of Housing for Ensuring Health and Well-Being in a Changing World,” will held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 17 over Zoom. The event is free and open to the public.
Reddy is the executive director of the National Center for Healthy Housing, an organization founded on the premise that better housing can be a powerful platform for better health.
Joanne Emerson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis, where her group studies soil viral communities in natural and managed ecosystems. Joanne received her Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012 and did postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado at Boulder (2012-2015) and at both the University of Arizona and The Ohio State University (2015-2017).
Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy Initiative Speaker Series presents "The Song Remains Not the Same: Correlated Intercept and Slope Uncertainties Matter to Prices vs Quantities" with Rick Horan, Professor, Michigan State University