Jennifer Baka, associate professor geography, and Hannah Wiseman, professor of law and Wilson Faculty Fellow in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, are part of a team receiving funding from the Sloan Foundation to research the equitable transition to renewable energy.
Lee Kump, John Leone Dean in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States and members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
As Penn State President Eric J. Barron prepares to retire following spring 2022 commencement ceremonies, members of the Penn State community have begun to reflect on the far-reaching impact he’s had on the University over the last eight years, ranging from student success, and access and affordability, to statewide economic development initiatives, the arts, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
Penn State Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science Micheal Mann is set to leave Penn State at the end of this year and assume a new position at the University of