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Penn State and several other institutions collaborate to study air quality in the Maryland/Washington, DC area. (Left to right) Jake Zenker (Penn State), Kevin Sanchez (Penn State), John Moore (Jackson State University), Jose D Fuentes (Penn State), and Ricardo Sakai (Howard University).Information for future students >>
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- Tue Oct 28, 2014 09:00 AM Grad Talk Andra Reed -- PhD Oral Comprehensive Exam (Penn State, Department of Meteorology) "Using downscaled CMIP5 models to perform a long-term analysis of North Atlantic tropical cyclones and their impacts on coastal inundation in New York and New Jersey"
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 06:30 PM RMS Corporate Information Session
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:15 AM Brown Bag Event Dr. Palash Sinha (PSU Meteorology) Projected precipitation in south Florida using a statistical downscaling approach
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 03:30 PM Meteorology Colloqium Yu Du (NCAR and Peking University) A Simple Analytical Model of LLJ over the U.S. Great Plains and its Application in Eastern China.
- Nov 01, 2014 to Nov 02, 2014 PSUBAMS members to host University of Maryland students PSU Football vs. University of Maryland Saturday, November 1, 2014
- Mon Nov 03, 2014 06:30 PM CWS/PSUBAMS Special Seminar Maria LaRosa, The Weather Channel
- Wed Nov 05, 2014 03:30 PM Meteorology Colloqium Christian Franzke (Meteorologisches Institut, University of Hamburg) North Atlantic Variability on Short and Long Time Scales
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 03:30 AM Meteorology Colloqium Luca Delle Monache (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
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- Stampede supercomputer helps researchers design and test improved hurricane forecasting system Fuqing Zhang and a team of weather modelers at Penn State University have created an improved method of hurricane forecasting Jun 26, 2014
- Scientists Predict Increased Rain, Floods for Northeast Residents of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states will experience increased rainfall and floods if data analysis by a Penn State meteorologist and long-term projections by a fisheries biologist, with a specialty in surface water pollution, are accurate. Jun 24, 2014
- Conditions at Penn State Weather Camp: Mostly curious UNIVERSITY PARK — Bill Syrett counted down, and more than 40 pairs of eyes turned to the clouds. Jun 24, 2014
- Six Things Michael Mann Wants You to Know About the Science of Global Warming There is nothing controversial about the work of climatologist Michael Mann, director of Penn State's Earth System Science Center. Jun 13, 2014
- Battle stations for an ice-free Arctic The summer seas around the North Pole could be ice-free in 15 years. Rear Admiral David Titley was given the task of working out what that meant for the US Navy. He talks with Elizabeth Finkel. Jun 04, 2014
- Climate Change Is A Growing National Security Concern, Say Retired Military Leaders A report released Tuesday from an advisory group of retired U.S. military leadership echoes the findings of other recent reports on climate change: It is real, it is already happening and it poses major threats to the U.S. and the rest of the world. May 29, 2014
- Penn State's Storm Chase Team applies classroom lessons in the field May 13, 2014


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Classification schemes can tell us a lot about organizations, their politics and practices. For citizen feedback applications, incident categories are a central component that negotiate between the ways in which users perceive an incident and the formats that the city's organization can process and act upon. Currently, there is no default taxonomy for Open311-based incident reporting systems, and each city has a different understanding of what set of incident categories are needed depending on the specifics of the city, the organizational structure of city departments, or historical contingencies. In this project, Professor Dietmar Offenhuber uses probabilistic topic models to identify recurring themes in over 70,000 incident reports submitted by citizens in Boston and investigates how their salient themes correspond to the categorizations offered by the interface. The project addresses the central role of design and calls for critical scrutiny of interfaces used in mediated governance and their effects the interaction between the individual and the city.]]>
NULab core faculty member Ben Schmidt has compiled a study of census data and developed an interactive tool to investigate by major which fields students go into. Read the story here.]]>
In March 2009, Congressman Andrews was appointed to chair a special panel to review and request reforms for the defense acquisition process. On March 23, 2010, the panel released a report finding that the process had not aged well, particularly through the growth of information technology, and recommending specific reforms to modernize the acquisitions process and save money.About a year later, on April 14, 2010, Rep. Andrews introduced HR 5013, theImplementing Management for Performance and Related Reforms to Obtain Value in Every Acquisition Act of 2010. Like every other bill he sponsored, this 90-page bill failed to become law. But what about the "specific reforms" proposed in the law? Did they also die a quiet death? Using the same text reuse method to compare the similarity of HR 5013 with every enrolled bill of the 111th Congress led to one bill that became law about eight months later, HR 6523 (the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011). Fourteen of 36 substantive sections of Andrews' 90-page bill were inserted essentially verbatim into Title VIII of the Defense Authorization Act. These nearly identical sections stretch from one end of HR 5013 to the other, further suggesting that Andrew's bill was the starting point for Title VIII. Though there are substantive differences, the overall organization of HR 5013 and Title VIII of HR 6523 are also very similar. Furthermore, we failed to detect any other bills that might have served as the inspiration for Title VIII. In our view, Rep. Andrews deserves credit for inspiring this important set of procurement reforms, at least to the extent that he deserves credit in his role as the panel chair. This is just one example, of course, but it adds credence to Rep. Andrews' estimate that "about 110 of his ideas have become law after being stuck into somebody else's bill." The progress of bills offers many valuable opportunities for better understanding how laws are made, but we should stop rating members based on which legislative vehicles progress. Sadly, it probably won't be long before bill hit rates or similar scores become standard fare on Web sites purporting to provide the public with "information" about their representatives' legislative performance. Such a development could hinder rather than promote representative democracy.]]>


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Not bad for 2nd place: Northwest Side 7-11 sells $1 million winner
By MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA AND JAMES SCALZITTI Staff Reporters March 31, 2012 1:24PM
Red Bud, Ill., MotoMart store manager Denise Metzger looks at an oversized check given to her by lottery officials Saturday morning March 31, 2012. They visited the convenience store in this town of about 3,700 residents to verify that her store had indeed sold one of the three winning Mega Millions lottery tickets. The jackpot of over $640 million established a new record, and may grow slightly larger as late ticket purchases are added in to the total. The oversized check Metzger holds shows the amount each of the winners could get after the three-way split from Friday night's Mega Millions drawing. The other winning tickets were sold in Maryland and Kansas. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Tim Vizer)
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Three lottery tickets sold in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland hit the world record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions jackpot, leaving scores of players across the country with busted multi-millionaire dreams.
Illinois' winning ticket was bought at a convenience store in the small town of Red Bud, about 40 miles southeast of St. Louis, and the winner used a quick pick to select the lucky numbers, Illinois Lottery Supt. Michael Jones said.
"This is the largest prize ever won in Illinois," an excited Jones said Saturday.
The downstate winner — who Jones said had not yet come forward — along with the Maryland and Kansas winners, will each receive $213.3 million before taxes.
"That's if he or she opts for being paid over a 26-year period," Jones said. "If they decide they want to do the cash option, that would be a $154 million lump payout. And after withholding, they would actually have $108 million."
The winner has 60 days to inform the Illinois Lottery of how they choose to collect, after which time it automatically becomes a 26-year payout. However, the winner has up to a year to come forward with the winning ticket, or forfeit the prize.
The winning numbers in Friday night's drawing were 02-04-23-38-46; the Mega Ball, 23.
The MotoMart store on Main Street in Redbud, pop. 3,700, will receive a $500,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket Friday night.
For 12 second-place winners who came this/close to the jackpot by matching the first five numbers, there was a silver lining. Each will receive $250,000. And one of them, who paid an extra dollar to play the Megaplier number, upped their prize to $1 million by matching the five numbers and the Megaplier — which was 03, Jones said.
That ticket was purchased at a 7-Eleven at 1750 W. Foster. Clerk Karla Cantinos said late Saturday that they still didn't know who won. She called and let her boss, who is on vacation, know the store stood to gain $10,000 for selling the ticket.
"Everybody's excited and still buying tickets for the next big games," she said.
Two other $250,000 winners bought there tickets at city locations: the DM Stores, 222 N. LaSalle, and AG 26th, 3201 W. 26th St.
So far, none of the winners have been identified. Lottery winners in Illinois are made public, but neither Maryland nor Kansas requires lottery winners to be identified; those two winners can claim the prize anonymously. The winning numbers also were purchased at a 7-Eleven in Milford Mill, Md., north of Baltimore, and somewhere in northeast Kansas.
Americans spent nearly $1.5 billion for a chance to hit the jackpot. The Illinois Lottery did $30 million in sales between Tuesday and Friday for the drawing — $20 million of that on Friday alone. And the new Illinois website, which debuted last Sunday, making Illinois the first state ever to offer lottery tickets online, took in some $1 million in sales. But there were problems with the site, Jones admitted.
"We had several outages," he said. "It's a work in progress. We have protocol questions as well as bugs, and we will work together with the private manager Northstar to make sure that those things are fixed."
Contributing: Dave McKinney, Associated Press