Co-founders of acclaimed architectural studio to visit the Stuckeman School
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Katie McDonald and Kyle Schumann, co-founders of the award-winning After Architecture studio and assistant professors at the University of Virginia, will visit the Stuckeman School to deliver a lecture titled “On Logs and Lumber” at 4 p.m. on April 9 in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space and via Zoom. The event is co-sponsored by the Penn State Center for Biorenewables.
Harrisburg to showcase research with events April 9
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Penn State Harrisburg’s Office of Research and Outreach will host the third annual Research and Discovery Day and the Research Impact Challenge on April 9 to showcase research and scholarly activities at the college. The event is free and open to public. Registration is not required.
Page Center announces ethics of generative AI research grants
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The Arthur W. Page Center announced the recipients of its 2025 Page/Johnson Legacy Scholar grants. Nine projects were chosen from a record number of proposal submissions, with each one examining a unique area of generative artificial intelligence, its industry standards and its ethical use.
Thirty-one students receive awards at 2025 Graduate Exhibition
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Thirty-one graduate students received awards at the 2025 Graduate Exhibition, a professional development event designed to help graduate students hone their skills with communicating research and creative scholarship to a general audience.
Over 400 students gather to race canoes, build bridges and network
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More than 400 students from 20 universities attended the symposium on March 27-29, which this year was hosted by Penn State’s student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The event offered a variety of civil engineering competitions, presentations and professional development opportunities to student engineers.
April 9 lecture will explore use of machine learning in weather prediction
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The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence will host Romit Maulik, assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, as part of its AI for Social Impact series. Maulik’s talk, titled “Weather and Climate Emulation with State-of-the-Art Physics-Informed AI Algorithms,” will discuss the rise of machine learning-based modeling for weather and climate prediction. The talk will take place from 3 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9 in E202 Westgate Building at Penn State University Park.
Forty-two graduate students recognized with University awards
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Forty-two graduate students received Penn State's annual recognition awards that celebrate students' impact in research, scholarship, teaching, outreach, mentoring and more.
Yost receives earthquake institute award, elected to geotechnical faculty board
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Kaleigh Yost, the L. Robert and Mary L. Kimball Early Career Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, recently received the Younger Member Award from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). She also was elected to serve on a board representing geotechnical faculty across the U.S.
Suat Irmak named fellow by leading world science society
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Suat Irmak, professor and head of agricultural and biological engineering in the College of Agricultural Sciences, has been elected to the latest cohort of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
Giant sloths’ hairy truth revealed by scientists
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New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct. This article quotes Michael Deak, adjunct professor of anatomy at Penn State Shenango.
Investigating the environmental impact of post-consumer plastic in asphalt
Researchers collaborated with the Environmental Contaminants Analytical Laboratory to investigate if asphalt made with recycled plastic posed an environmental threat.
Indigenous Amazonian leader featured as keynote at Climate Solutions Symposium
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The keynote speaker for the 2025 Climate Solutions Symposium will be Nemonte Nenquimo, an Indigenous activist and leader of the Waorani Nation from Ecuador's Amazon region.