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Penn State’s Local Climate Action Program (LCAP) is making a valuable impact beyond Pennsylvania’s borders, thanks in part to recent World Campus Energy and Sustainability Policy graduate, Joe Thompson.

Barbara Arnold, professor of practice in mining engineering in the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, told a U.S. congressional committee in September that the United States will need to make dramatic advances to increase its technical- and skilled-labor workforce to power its green energy future and to become less reliant on foreign nations for securing materials used in both everyday devices and critical national security applications. 

Joshua Hasenau, a third-year Penn State student, was part of a summer internship with the New Enterprise Stone and Lime Company, a construction company from New Enterprise, Pennsylvania, that produces aggregates, asphalt, and concrete. 

Mohammad Rezaee, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering, and his team have founded Intel-E-Waste, a startup offering a sustainable e-waste recycling process.

Nelson Y. Dzade, assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering in the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, has received a 2024 Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Dzade will use the five-year, $875,000 award to develop a multi-scale framework for predicting and understanding interfaces in solar cells.

Zuleima Karpyn, Donohue Family Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, and associate dean for graduate education and research in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, was recently named a distinguished member by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) at the society’s annual technical conference held in New Orleans.
 

This fall, the Penn State Mining Engineering program invited engineers worldwide to Pittsburgh for the 7th International Symposium on Mine Safety Science and Engineering (ISMSSE). At the symposium, researchers and experts from academia, industry and scientific research institutes shared new concepts and exhibited technical equipment to forward mine safety science and engineering.

Erica P. Cooper, administrative support manager in the John and Willie Leone Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State, has been recognized for her service at the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) in the recently published book “The No-Fail Mission: The Men and Women Behind the Presidential Service Badge.”
 

The Petroleum Engineering program ranks No. 4 among national public universities and No. 63 overall out of 436 national universities listed in U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 “Best Colleges” ranking, released Sept. 24. 
 

A group of Penn State students from across the state jumped in feet first this summer to gain undergraduate research experience through the Multi-Campus Research Experience for Undergraduates.