Grant to reduce, eliminate toxicity of coal mine dust 02/15/2022 Increases in lung diseases have been related to respirable coal mine dust. Penn State has been awarded $327,849 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to fund research targeting ways to reduce or eliminate the toxicity of respirable coal mine dust. |
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Women in energy and water research seminar series continues Feb. 24 02/14/2022 The spring 2022 Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research seminar series will launch on Thursday, Feb. 24 with two talks by Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte, distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue University. The free seminars are open to Penn State faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students. |
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Associate professor recognized as rising star in energy research 02/07/2022 Shimin Liu, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering at Penn State, is one of 29 researchers recognized as a rising star by Energy & Fuel, an international scholarly journal focused on fundamental and applied research within the energy and fuels fields, for his significant contributions in the field of energy research. |
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Sanjay Srinivasan named distinguished member by Society of Petroleum Engineers 02/01/2022 Sanjay Srinivasan, department head of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State, has been honored as a distinguished member by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). One of 22 recipients selected for 2021, he joins only 696 other members honored since the establishment of the award in 1983. |
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Research Penn State awarded $3.4 million contract to target plastic waste 01/18/2022 Penn State has been awarded a $3.4 million contract from the REMADE Institute, a public-private partnership established by the United States Department of Energy, to fund research targeting the inefficient methods currently used to process and upcycle mixed plastic waste. |
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Seminar series focusing on the future of energy starts Sept. 30 09/30/2021 The Energy of the Future seminar series, which aims to further the discussion on important energy topics and inspire collaboration across institutions, begins on Thursday, September 30. |
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Seminar series featuring women in energy research to launch on Sept. 16 09/20/2021 The first two seminars in the new Celebrating Women in Energy and Water Research lecture series, one experimental and the other technical, are scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 16, featuring Joan B. Rose, Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research at Michigan State University. |
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Seed grant to explore using AI to model subsurface rock formations 08/17/2021 Yashar Mehmani, assistant professor in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, has recently received a seed grant from the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) to investigate using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a new method to model the Earth’s subsurface. |
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Engineering professor receives rock mechanics dissertation award 06/29/2021 Brandon Schwartz, assistant research professor in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, recently received the Dr. N.G.W. Cook Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA). The award recognizes an outstanding doctoral dissertation in rock mechanics or rock engineering. |
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Student Energy 'crisis' provides engineering students leadership experience 06/25/2021 The subpoena arrived at 9:45 p.m. on Friday, ordering the fictitious Wolfhelm Mining Ltd. executive team to appear in court. Their presence was requested to testify on an unfolding crisis that began a few hours earlier when a dam containing mining waste was breached on a remote Asian-Pacific island, flooding several villages, claiming the lives of hundreds and contaminating the region's drinking water supply. It wasn't until 11 p.m. that the students got any good news — that a Penn State research team rumored to be in the area had been found unharmed. |