Civil engineering student receives Department of Defense fellowship
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As a Peace Corp volunteer in Paraguay, Sarah Torhan witnessed the reality of living with food, energy and water insecurity, as well as the impacts of environmental degradation on local populations.
Penn State faculty suggest solutions for climate change, Earth sustainability
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Penn State Evan Pugh University Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering Bruce Logan and Assistant Director of Penn State’s Sustainability Institute Michele Halsell suggest solutions for climate change.
Take Note: Environmentalist Hunter Lovins on how businesses can reverse climate change
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Award winning author, environmentalist, and business consultant Hunter Lovins joins Take Note to discuss ways businesses are finding climate change solutions with inspiration from nature.
Venture & IP Conference to showcase Penn State research innovations
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The Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference, one of the largest tech startup conferences in the Mid-Atlantic, will take place April 28-29 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. The conference will highlight innovations from high-growth and emerging markets, showcase disruptive technologies and early-stage companies born from Penn State research, and feature two special keynote events.
How Penn Staters participated in the first Earth Day in 1970
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Today, Nittany Lions across Pennsylvania celebrate Earth Day. But did you know Penn Staters participated in the first Earth Day? The first Earth Day took place 52 years ago, on April 22, 1970, marking the birth of the contemporary environmental movement.
IST academic search engine awarded ‘Best Open Source Project’ by BCS
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CiteSeerX, one of the world’s earliest open source academic search engines and co-created by C. Lee Giles, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, has been recognized by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society as the Best Open Source Project, as part of its 2021 Search Industry Awards.
Strong tides, vanishing lakes may prove beneficial to Antarctic ice shelf
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Strong tidal activity may facilitate water-induced fracturing and the rapid draining of a meltwater lake at the grounding line of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. The phenomenon may temporarily stabilize the ice shelf despite increased warming, according to researchers.
Green infrastructure helps cities with climate change. So why isn't there more of it?
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The U.S. is making the largest investment in history in the country's water system. In the rush to spend, some worry green projects will be overlooked. This National Public Radio article quotes Lauren McPhillips, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
Winners honored at Startup Week powered by PNC student competition
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Penn State Startup Week powered by PNC culminated with a celebration of student innovation and entrepreneurship at the Student Recognition and Networking Reception, which took place on April 7 at the Penn State Innovation Hub.
2022 Undergraduate Exhibition returns to HUB-Robeson Center
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The 2022 Undergraduate Exhibition for Research, Inquiry, and Creative Activity earlier this month featured the hard work of 282 undergraduate researchers from across Penn State.
Ten student teams awarded combined $15,000 to build MVPs in Nittany AI Challenge
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Ten student teams have been selected to receive funding to develop a minimum viable product in the 2022 Nittany AI Challenge. The teams are using artificial intelligence for good to solve real-world problems in the areas of health, environment, education and humanitarianism as part of the yearlong competition.
Data Science Community ‘deep dives’ to highlight storytelling, reproducibility
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The Data Science Community is hosting two upcoming “deep dive” training sessions for the Penn State community focused on different aspects of data science — storytelling with data on April 15; and reproducibility and open science on May 13.