2008 news archives
(see sidebar for other year's archives)September 2008
- Chesapeake Cellulosic Biofuels Report Released
- Seven Penn State faculty win NSF CAREER awards
- Solar Decathlon team opens Sept. 4 meeting to all faculty, students
- Global warming greatest in past decade
August 2008
- Principles of Snow Hydrology Published
- Gates Foundation grant funds infectious disease project
- Future impact of global warming worse when grazing animals considered
- WPSU documentary on aging water infrastructure to air nationally
- Hickner selected as Office of Naval Research young scientist
- Pesticide buildup could lead to poor honey bee health
- Boyer Appointed New Water Center Director and Assistant Director of PSIEE
- Deep-well natural gas drilling a concern for state's water quality
- Research in Puerto Rico on Corals and Global Warming
- Probing Question: Is peak oil a myth?
- Tiny invasive snail impacts Great Lakes, alters ecology
- Ag Progress Days exhibits to focus on bioenergy
July 2008
- Penn State's Ag Progress Days put conservation, agronomy in one tent
- 'Dire Predictions' book offers easy guide to global warming science
- Researcher guides design of Smithsonian exhibit on soil, life on Earth
- Hoadley named Fulbright Scholar
- Building robots to collect ice sheet data
- New book out by Penn State Altoona professor of environmental studies
- New scholarship honors Forest Resources Director Strauss
- Employees urged to think outside box for sustainable strategies
- Researchers generate hydrogen without the carbon footprint
- Pennsylvania State University Awarded NOAA Sea Grant Institutional Program Designation
- New initiative helps recruit elite faculty and staff
- Book explores fuel issues for engineers
June 2008
- The most dangerous nature reserve in the world
- Penn State researchers' integration of maps and weather data featured by Ivanhoe Broadcast News
- Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Environmental Scholars Announced
- Brenizer wins ASEE nuclear engineering award
- Wooly-Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory
- Reducing demand can lower electric bills, lessen chance of blackouts
- A Survivor in Greenland: A Novel Bacterial Species in Found Trapped in 120,000-Year-Old Ice
- Northwest Pa. farmers grow camelina for biofuel with PSU help
- Consumers Step up to Help Honey Bees
May 2008
- Research goes on as honey bee losses rise in U.S., fall in Pa.
- Forester commits $2 million for faculty chair in silviculture research
- Hybrid vehicle team captures several first-place awards; finishes 6th
- Only The Nose Knows: Penn State Odor Lab Sniffs Out Ag Problems
- Penn State scientist elected to The Royal Society
- Simple model cell is key to understanding cell complexity
- EPA recognizes Penn State as top green power purchaser
- Penn State Extension helps Pa. residents navigate gas-leasing maze
- STATERs encourage Penn Staters to go green and keep campus clean
- Penn State scientists elected to National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 2 Penn State scientists
April 2008
- Penn State places first in Shell Eco-marathon contest
- Energy Efficiency Forum Update
- Critical Zone Observatory Meeting Will Focus on Soil Formation, Water Flow
- Climate Ethics and Real Climate Make Time Magazine's Top 15 Green Websites
- Probing question: Why do whales beach themselves?
- ClearWater Conservancy plans tree planting at sheep farm
- Panel of Experts to Discuss Strategies for Our Energy Future on 26 April
- Watershed Clean-Up Day Scheduled for Saturday April 19th
- Absence of clouds caused prehuman supergreenhouse periods
- The Medical Minute: Asthma patients should consider pollution's effect
- DOE surplus laboratory equipment available
- The My 20 Challenge
- Gyspsy Moth Management Made More Efficient, Cost Effective
- Pratt & Whitney establishes partnership with Penn State
- DOE grant funds solar energy project
- Discussion to focus on solar energy
- Logan to receive award for meritorious service
March 2008
- ConocoPhillips, Penn State partner on nationwide energy prize program
- Can logging be done sustainably?
- Tackling global challenge to ensure food security in changing climate
- Arboretum's Overlook Pavilion construction set to begin
- Penn State engineer named KAUST Investigator
- New Book by MRI Researchers Fuels Solar Hydrogen Development
- Hybrid vehicle team plans spring break road trip
February 2008
- Solar cell directly splits water for hydrogen
- Will North Atlantic threshold response to ocean changes be enough?
- Ancient leaves point to climate change effect on insects
- Song New Associate Director
- Häagen-Dazs Gift to Support Penn State Honey Bee Research
- Current TV documentary highlights Penn State Solar Decathlon team
- University recycling looking up as tons of ceiling tiles find new use
- Probing Question: What is a red tide?
January 2008
- Wood-fueled heating system saves company $150,000 per year
- Penn State Researchers are Part of UNESCO Award winning Center
- PSU Critical Zone Observatory to study soil formation, water flow
- Penn State to compete in 2009 Solar Decathlon
- Paired microbes eliminate methane using sulfur pathway
- Penn State research tackles complex energy, environment challenges
- Philadelphia Inquirer article features Penn State hydrogen research
- Biocapture Surfaces Produced for Study of Brain Chemistry