News
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Wed, 11/08/2017 - 08:52
As regions across the Atlantic Ocean were bracing for a recent string of hurricanes, real-time lessons were being explored around the globe in a class taught through Penn State World Campus in partnership with the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ John A. Dutton e-Education Institute. Read more!
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Mon, 08/07/2017 - 10:24
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Vera Cole, lead faculty for the Energy and Sustainability Policy programs, in receiving the Epstein Lifetime Achievement Award at Energypath 2017!
Read all about this wonderful accolade in the Penn State News!
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Mon, 10/10/2016 - 14:49
Last spring, Erica Smithwick, associate professor of geography who authored and teaches the online version of GEOG 001 (Global Parks and Sustainability), worked with the Dutton Institute, experts from Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT), and other faculty experts to use HapYak to create interactive video quizzes for students in an online course as part of a Research Initiation Grant funded by Penn State’s Center for Online Innov
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Mon, 10/10/2016 - 09:28
Ron Santini has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Alumni Award from Penn State DuBois. This award is presented to a Penn State DuBois alumnus who graduated or attended campus thirty-one years ago or more and demonstrates:
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Thu, 09/29/2016 - 10:07
This past summer (2016), 10 students in the online Master of Geographic Information Systems program travelled to Europe to collaborate with students from the Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, located in Enschede, Netherlands, to develop solutions to analyze spatiotemporal patterns in refugee migration data. This marked the first time an online graduate program at Penn State has had a "study abroad" component!
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Tue, 09/13/2016 - 09:53
Jonathan Mathews, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering and author/instructor for the online offering of EGEE 101, was named a 2016 Fellow by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The ACS Fellows Program recognizes members for their outstanding contributions to science and the profession, and service to the ACS community. He was honored during the ACS National Meeting and Exposition, held Aug. 21-25 in Philadelphia.
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Thu, 08/18/2016 - 09:22
Kyung Kim, graduate assistant in the Dutton Institute, will be awarded the AECT 2016 Dean and Sybil McClusky Research Award! This prestigious award goes to the most outstanding doctoral research proposal in educational technology, as selected by a jury of researchers from the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Please join me in congratulating Kim!
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Mon, 02/08/2016 - 14:53
Mike Reichart is passionate about sustainability, and he is part of the first cohort of individuals worldwide to receive professional sustainability certification through the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP).
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Wed, 12/16/2015 - 14:11
A new online undergraduate certificate in Earth sustainability offered by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences through Penn State World Campus aims to provide people from many backgrounds with information to make environmentally sustainable decisions.
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Thu, 11/19/2015 - 11:01
Angela Chang, a human rights advocate with Amnesty International and a student in the Penn State online master’s degree program in Geographic Information Systems, Geospatial Intelligence option, was the 2014 recipient of the Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award. Chang was unable to attend the 2014 U.S.