Penn State’s Center for Critical Minerals launches new website
Acid mine drainage pollution in a stream in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Image: Rachel A. Brennan, Penn State
Left - Photo of the produced sulfur. Right - Photo of the plasma discharge.
Welcome to the Spring 2021 edition of the EMS Energy Institute (EI) newsletter. This edition showcases faculty research in several topical areas, introduces new faculty, and highlights the honors received by our students, faculty, and staff.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A region famous for the coal that once fueled a growing nation is now the focus of a $1.2 million project, led by Penn State researchers, aimed at establishing domestic supplies of critical minerals needed to produce modern technology from cell phones to fighter jets.
(Fiscal Year 2018/2019)
Total Awards 46
The 38th Annual Virtual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference will be held September 20, 2021. Details about this event can be found at https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/pcc/.
Penn State alumna Elana Chapman, senior fuels and biofuels engineer at General Motors (GM), has been recognized for her impacts within the fuel industry.
The Penn State Materials Research Institute (MRI) has announced the 2021 recipients of seed grants that will enable University faculty to establish new collaborations with partners outside their own units for exploration of transformative ideas for high-impact materials science and engineering. There are four research themes for the seed grants, with 12 grants totaling more than $500,000 which were awarded by MRI in partnership with Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory and the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.