Penn State Science
"The Global Water Crisis" is a Free Public Event on February 13
A free public lecture titled "The Global Water Crisis" will be given by Gregory Knight, professor of geography at Penn State, on February 13, 2010 in room 100 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus. The event is the fourth of six lectures in the 2010 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science, a free minicourse for the general public with the theme "Water: The Next Frontier." No registration is required. The lectures take place on six consecutive Saturday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m.
Stellar Detective
Research Penn State profiles Mercedes Richards, professor of astronomy and astrophysics in the Eberly College of Science. Printed on the pages of Mercedes Richards' high school yearbook, a friend's parting sentiment reads: "Mad Mercy! Her ambition is to obtain a Ph.D. in Astronomy!" Like only a few of her classmates back in Kingston, Jamaica, loved looking up at the skies. "I made a decision 'round about 6th grade or so that I wanted to be an astronomer," she declares.
Mammoth Achievement
Forget Jurassic Park. By successfully sequencing the DNA of a long-extinct species, Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller have helped push back the boundaries of molecular biology. Research Penn State features the work of these two Eberly College of Science faculty who have successfully sequenced the DNA of the woolly mammoth.
