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PSU Spring 2020 Updates
Dutton Institute Help Faculty Transtion to Online Learning The Dutton Institute at Penn State had been working with learning designers for months on a virtual-learning resource to be used in situations when inclement weather disrupted learning. When the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of all in-person classes, this snow-day protocol helped faculty members transition to...
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Study Predicts Heavier Rains for Five Eastern Shore Towns A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Maryland gives a detailed look into how climate change will influence extreme storm rainfall in Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Overall, their findings suggest that by the mid-21st century, a 100-year storm will bring heavier and more intense rainfall, if the world does not curb...
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Old Dominion University Partners With Hampton Roads Community Foundation to Speed Severe Weather Recovery ODU researchers have received a five-year $500,000 grant from the Hampton Roads Community Foundation to help vulnerable communities quickly restore damaged homes following severe storms and flooding. The research team will begin by creating a Convergence, Inventory, Matching &...
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Tracking COVID-19 Johns Hopkins University has been a global leader throughout the duration of the COVID-19 crisis. Not only has their plan for continuing research in these unprecedented times become the industry standard, but they have also created the go-to COVID-19 Dashboard. Launched in the early days of the crisis, Johns Hopkins’ dashboard has become a useful tool for researchers,...
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A New Vocabulary for an Increasingly Polluted World SERC researcher, Linsey Haram, has spearheaded an effort to standardize the language used to discuss the increasingly widespread plastic pollution in our environment. The development of the use of plastics in our society has happened so rapidly that many related phenomena have managed to escape any agreed-upon terminology. The lack of a...
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Virginia Water Center Nationally Recognized for Water Issues The Virginia Water Resources Research Center, housed at Virginia Tech, was one of 12 institutes to be nationally recognized as “outstanding” by the U.S. Geological Survey. This designation was recently given after a panel of scientists reviewed the center’s progress between 2011 and 2015. In particular, the panel commended the...
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