IEE faculty, staff, and projects in the news
'Right' cover-crop mix good for both Chesapeake and bottom lines
| psu.edu
Planting and growing a strategic mix of cover crops not only reduces the loss of nitrogen from farm fields, protecting water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, but the practice also contributes nitrogen to subsequent cash crops, improving yields, according to researchers.
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New publication stresses importance of collaboration in landscape design
| news.psu.edu
A new publication based on the proceedings of the E+D: Ecology Plus Design Symposium stresses the importance of a true partnership between designers and ecologists from the start of a landscape architecture project, through the design process, and to completion.
Interdisciplinary research project on water and agriculture launches website
| news.psu.edu
Water for Agriculture, a Penn State-led interdisciplinary research project funded by the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute on Food and Agriculture, has announced the launching of its website. The project aims to address the water and agriculture issues that matter most to communities through effective stakeholder engagement.
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'Materials from First Principles' theme for 2019 Nelson W. Taylor Lecture Series
| psu.edu
The 2019 Nelson W. Taylor Lecture Series in Materials Science and Engineering will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Thursday, April 11 in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Freeman Auditorium on Penn State’s University Park campus. The theme of this year’s lecture series is “Materials from First Principles.”
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Michael Janik
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Ismaila Dabo
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Vincent Crespi
Researchers look for successful end to power grid failures
| psu.edu
Anyone who has experienced an extended power outage knows that the effects can go well beyond inconvenient and become outright dangerous. Luckily, with the help of a $999,000 NSF Cyber Physical Systems grant, Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, assistant professor in electrical engineering, is working on research to prevent failures in the power grid and enable a quick recovery when they do occur.
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Manure injection offers hope, challenge for restoring Chesapeake water quality
| news.psu.edu
Widespread adoption by dairy farmers of injecting manure into the soil instead of spreading it on the surface could be crucial to restoring Chesapeake Bay water quality, according to researchers who compared phosphorus runoff from fields treated by both methods. However, they predict it will be difficult to persuade farmers to change practices.
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Kathryn Brasier
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Peter Kleinman
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Tamie L. Veith
Agricultural Engineer, USDA-ARS-Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit
Penn State chosen by Department of Energy to help modernize the power grid
| psu.edu
In an effort to modernize and reimagine the United States' power grid, Penn State researchers have qualified for a highly selective, innovative competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Uday V. Shanbhag
Gary and Sheila Bello Chair Professor, Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering -
Mort Webster
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Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri
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Chiara Lo Prete
Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME) -
Minghui Zhu
LaJeunesse and colleagues receive 2017 Tyge Christiansen Prize
| psu.edu
Three Penn Staters, including Associate Professor of Biology Todd LaJeunesse, his former graduate student Drew Wham, and Director of the Microscopy Facility Gang Ning, have been awarded the 2017 Tyge Christiansen Prize by the International Phycological Society, an organization dedicated to the study of algae.
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At Penn State, researchers push for answers on carbon capture
| whyy.org
Between Penn State, other universities and a federal lab near Pittsburgh, a lot of research on carbon capture and sequestration takes place in Pennsylvania.
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Sanjay Srinivasan
Department Head and Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME) -
Tieyuan Zhu
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Eugene Morgan
Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Re-Imagining Energy: Generating Energy
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Penn State researchers are developing a range of innovative technologies to harvest the sustainable energy of natural processes to power our future. Part one of a five-part series.
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Bruce Logan
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Noel Chris Giebink
Noel Chris GiebinkFormer Charles K. Etner Professor of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering -
Susan Trolier-McKinstry
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Christopher Gorski
Fracking wastewater accumulation found in freshwater mussels' shells
| psu.edu
Elevated concentrations of strontium, an element associated with oil and gas wastewaters, have accumulated in the shells of freshwater mussels downstream from fracking wastewater disposal sites, according to researchers from Penn State and Union College.
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Lab Bench to Commercialization 2018–19 grant recipients announced
| psu.edu
The Eberly College of Science's Office for Innovation has awarded three faculty members $75,000 each toward commercializing intellectual property from their research.
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