In Pennsylvania, Ukraine invasion and urgent climate report drive new interest in renewables, efficiency
| stateimpact.npr.org
With natural gas prices rising and amid another report stressing the urgency of cutting carbon emissions, it’s a ‘reasonable reaction’ that people would look to renewables and efficiency measures, one analyst said.
Winners honored at Startup Week powered by PNC student competition
| psu.edu
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
| psu.edu
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.
Michael J. and Aimee Rusinko Kakos endow Arts and Architecture dean’s chair
| psu.edu
Michael J. and Aimee Rusinko Kakos, longtime donors to Penn State, have made a leadership commitment to endow the Michael J. and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Dean’s Chair in the College of Arts and Architecture. Their generous support will provide financial resources to the current dean and future deans of the college, generating opportunities for students and faculty to engage and advance the arts.
Materials Research Institute announces 2022 seed grant recipients
| psu.edu
The Penn State Materials Research Institute has announced the 2022 recipients of seed grants that will enable University faculty to establish new collaborations with partners outside their own units for the exploration of transformative ideas for high-impact materials science and engineering.
Data Science Community ‘deep dives’ to highlight storytelling, reproducibility
| psu.edu
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.
Coastal Studio Penn State earns Community Engagement and Scholarship Award
| psu.edu
The Coastal Studio Penn State – Portsmouth Rhode Island Resilience Planning project has received the 2022 Penn State Award for Community Engagement and Scholarship. The effort is led by Peter Stempel, associate professor of landscape architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture.
Architectural engineering professor honored by global society
| news.engr.psu.edu
John Messner, Charles and Elinor Matts Professor of Architectural Engineering received the 2022 Computing in Civil Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, the nation’s oldest engineering society.
What the latest U.N. climate report says about transportation
| stateimpact.npr.org
The UN’s latest report on climate change issued this week finds there are still things we can do about climate change, including changes to one of our biggest sources of climate polluting emissions: transportation.
Redressing a flood of historic injustices
| by Peter Stempel
Penn State’s recent entry into the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) design competition demonstrates how students may play a significant role in identifying ways to redress historic injustices and as importantly, not perpetuate past racist policies as communities adapt to changing sea levels.
The electric vehicle revolution is coming for trains
| msn.com
The United States has the largest railway network in the world. Today, almost 2 billion tons of goods travel on American trains every year and millions of Americans use Amtrak to get around the country. All of that railway activity is a massive yet underrated contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. This article quotes Chris Rahn, professor of mechanical engineering.
International engineering collaboration makes the world their classroom
| psu.edu
Penn State students from the Center for Global Engineering Engagement and an Engineering Leadership Development course hosted a delegation of 25 students and faculty from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland’s Medrisio and Lugano campuses for a week of events and workshops to kick off semester-long collaborative projects with Penn State students.
Smallholder farmers, despite facing enormous challenges, produce a significant portion of the world's food, especially in regions like Africa and Asia. PlantVillage, a project aimed at empowering these farmers through smartphone technology and machine learning, has grown into a global initiative with ambitious plans to expand its impact and address the growing threat of climate change. Listen to the podcast.
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