Seminar Listings: November 17 - 21, 2025
Monday, November 17
EESI's EarthTalks Seminar Series: Increasing Transparency for Critical Mineral Commodity Supply Chains from Deposit to End-use in an Uncertain and Opaque Market
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
112 Walker Building | Online
Speaker: Elisa Alonso
Organizer: The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
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Penn State GIS Day 2025
11:15 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries | Online
Organizer: Penn State University Libraries, Department of Geography
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Deer Affect Forest Community Composition via Browsing and Indirect Effects on the Abiotic Environment
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
108 Wartik Laboratory
Speaker: Autumn Sabo
Organizer: Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Plant Institute
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Tuesday, November 18
Millennium Café: From Implants to Concrete: Multimodal CT-MRI in Action
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
3rd Floor Café Commons of the Millennium Science Complex
Speakers: Thomas Neuberger
Organizer: Materials Research Institute
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Millennium Café: Great Expectations: Resources for Managing Research Labs
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
3rd Floor Café Commons of the Millennium Science Complex
Speakers: Katie Bode-Lang
Organizer: Materials Research Institute
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C-CHANGE: Lessons Learned from Denmark's Biogas Industry
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Online Only
Speakers: Thomas Beresnyak, Daniel Brockett, Daniel Ciolkosz, Joseph Conklin, Dana Ollendyke, Matthew Svetz
Organizer: Penn State Extension
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Political Industrial Ecology (PIE) Webinar: Towards A Political-Industrial Ecology of Logistics: Revisiting North America's Largest Inland Port
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Online Only
Speaker: Jared Whear
Organizer: Political Industrial Ecology Initiative
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Geosciences Colloquium Series: Red Beds and Yellow Beds: A Search for Meaning in Metastability
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
22 Deike Building
Speaker: Peter Heaney
Organizer: Department of Geosciences
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Industrial Electrification: Technologies and Interactions with the Energy System
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
135 Reber Building
Speaker: Rebecca Ciez
Organizer: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Translating AI to Action in the Plant Sciences
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Berg Auditorium, Huck Life Sciences Building
Speaker: Harland Patch, Paul Esker, Patrick Suthers
Organizer: Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Wednesday, November 19
EEEPI Seminar Series & Climate Conversation Café: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal to Combat Climate Change: Science and Governance
11:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
134 HUB-Robeson Center | Online
Speaker: Wil Burns
Organizer: Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy Initiative , Penn State Climate Consortium
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Advancing Water Quality Research and Watershed Science at SEAREC
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
342 Food Science Building | Online
Speaker: Jonathan Duncan
Organizer: Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Science, Southeast Agriculture Research and Extension Center
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Water Cooler Talk: Data Centers and Water Resources
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Online Only
Speaker: Tyler Groh, Landon Marston
Organizer: Penn State Extension
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Moody's RMS HWind: Comprehensive Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind Analyses and Forecasting
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
112 Walker Building
Speakers: Erin Munsell
Organizer: Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
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The Future of Housing Is Now
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Robb Hall, Hintz Family Alumni Center
Speaker: Dennis Steigerwalt
Organizer: Pennsylvania Housing Research Center, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
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News Article
Thursday, November 20
Thermodynamics of Solvation Process in Liquid Electrolytes
10:30 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.
001 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building (Capone Learning Auditorium)
Speaker: Feifei Shi
Organizer: Robert V. Waltemeyer Department of Chemical Engineering
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Water Above- and Below-Ground
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Online Only
Speakers: Holly Barnard, Theresa Blume
Organizer: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Pollinators, Plants, and People: Building Networks for Resilience
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
AAAS Auditorium or Online
1200 New York Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20005
Speakers: Christina Grozinger
Organizer: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Friday, November 21
Water Quality Insights Series: PFAS in Agroecosystems
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Online Only
Speaker: Femeena Pandara Valappil, Faith Kibuye, Heather Preisendanz
Organizer: Penn State Extension
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Larval Parasitoids as a Potential Approach to Controlling Grape Berry Moths
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
252 Erickson Food Science Building
Speaker: Flor Acevedo
Organizer: Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Science
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Emerging Materials and Devices for Energy-Efficient Nanoelectronics
1:25 p.m. - 2:25 p.m.
254 Health and Human Development Building
Speaker: Fabia Farlin Athena
Organizer: College of Engineering
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Coming up
Monday - Wednesday. May 18 - 20
2026 Penn State Climate Solutions Symposium
All Day
Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center
Organizer: Penn State's Climate Consortium
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