Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

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College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Established: 1896
Dean: William E. Easterling
Location: University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Campus: Suburban
Website: www.ems.psu.edu

The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences is a constituent semi-autonomous part Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

The College was founded in 1896 as a School of Mines, and over time diversified and became the current college offering studies in Earth Science. The college has five departments: Energy and Mineral Engineering, Geography, Geosciences, Materials Science and Engineering, and Meteorology. [1].

The Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, as of fall 2007, now offers the undergraduate energy engineering program, the first of its kind in the country [2].

The College also includes The Alliance for Earth Science, Engineering, and Development in Africa (AESEDA), The Energy Institute, The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI), The John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, and the Peter R. Gould Center for Geography and Outreach.

It is currently the smallest college (in terms of student enrollment) at the University Park campus.

Five current staff members (Michael Mann, Klaus Keller, Anne Thompson, Richard Alley, and William Easterling) contributed to the efforts of the IPCC that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

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The Department of Geography was ranked number one in the United States in 1995, by The National Research Council (NRC). The U.S. News Best Graduate Schools 2007 ranked the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Meteorology graduate program number one in the US. According to USNEWS rankings for 2009 the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering program ranks 5th in the nation and Geology ranks 3rd in the nation.

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