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Penn State Sustainability has announced the 2025 recipients of its annual awards. These accolades, including the John Roe Sustainability Impact Award, the Student Sustainability Advisory Council Tree Award and the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) Campus Sustainability Champion Award, commend the extraordinary contributions of students in spearheading sustainability initiatives.
Advisor: Dr. John Peters
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Advisor: Dr. Matt Kumjian
To protect against rising sea levels in a warming world, coastal cities typically follow a standard playbook with various protective infrastructure options. For example, a seawall could be designed based on the latest climate projections, with the city officials then computing its cost-benefit ratio and proceeding to build, accordingly.
Penn State recognized 42 graduate students with annual University awards that celebrate students' impact in research, scholarship, teaching, outreach, mentoring and more. Meteorology and atmospheric science doctoral student Helen Kenion, won an Alumni Dissertation Award. Helen's dissertation presents and applies a novel method for measuring urban greenhouse gas emissions at the neighborhood scale.
Jon Nese, teaching professor and associate head of the undergraduate program in meteorology and atmospheric science in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS), is the recipient of the 2025 Undergraduate Program Leadership Award. The award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated exemplary leadership benefiting a Penn State undergraduate degree program.
Advisor: Dr. Yunji Zhang
The Penn State community is mourning the loss of Jenni Evans, professor emerita of meteorology and atmospheric science and director emerita of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, who died April 3 in her Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, home. She was 63.
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