Penn State Student Chapter of the Association for Women Geoscientists

08/23/2022

To welcome the incoming cohort to Penn State, AWG has reserved a fire pit at 814 Cider Works for this Friday night from 6 – 9 pm. Please join us to kick off the new academic year!

Please bring chairs if you have them (very limited seating)! Also, there is a food truck at 814 if you want to eat, and cider of course.

11/03/2021

REMINDER - PIE OFF is this Friday!!! 🥧 🥧 🥧

Announcing the annual AWG PIE OFF! 🥧

Your chance to pie a professor in the face!
..plus a pie competition, pizza, and drinks!

10/22/2021

Announcing the annual AWG PIE OFF! 🥧

Your chance to pie a professor in the face!
..plus a pie competition, pizza, and drinks!

10/21/2021

Fall Fest!!! 🎃🍂

We had a great turnout of 22% of all the grad students, as well as some faculty, post-docs, and friends/family of geoscience folk! This event helped us raise money to support the undergraduate field camp scholarships, as well as giving us a great time for comradery, enjoying the beautiful fall weather, and eating some delicious pizza and seasonal sweets.

The carving competition was tough, but we had some clear winners with Sara Kimmig taking first place (scary jack o lantern), Emilie Saucier (volcano) and Taylor Gray (skull) tying for second, Roger Ort (cat) getting third place, and Hanna Leapaldt (eye of Sauron) winning the least likable pumpkin. However, the best pumpkin by far was Finn Lindsey-Barnes, who we didn't let compete because there was no way anyone else would win against him. Thanks to all for coming out!

09/14/2021

Alumni Board Career Panel Event TODAY from 5:00-6:30pm! This is a virtual event.

The alumni board is hosting a career panel during which alumni working in Energy, Environmental, and academia will be available to discuss career paths in their respective areas.

Register here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Career Panel. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

08/30/2021

We are meeting for breakfast with the colloquium speakers (Dr. Erica Barlow and Dr. Georgia Soares) tomorrow at 8am!

We will meet in the Deike lobby and then walk over to the tables and chairs outside of the Electrical Engineering West building (across the faculty parking lot from Deike).

Free coffee and bagels! Tell your friends!

04/16/2021

Great fun at the second trivia night! Thanks for all who attended

03/22/2021

Building on the resounding success of our last AWG trivia night, we will be hosting another trivia night on April 15th at 6:30pm. Our very own Trivia Master, Ben Barnes will host! The cover of $5 per person will go to support undergraduate field camp scholarships. Please venmo Adam Benfield (Adam-Benfield-3 on Venmo, i.e. the one with the giant sequoia pic), several days prior to the event. You can sign yourself and your team up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LJxghrsIvwJDU6dFvZxX1Wh94XNSwZayCWCt2qpbzT4/edit?usp=sharing. Zoom link to follow. To ensure a margin of fairness, please limit teams to no more than 6 people.

Come one, come all! We welcome everyone: undergrad, grad, postdoc, faculty, staff, family, and friends! We look forward to the creative team names, the heckling, and – most importantly – seeing you all (virtually).

02/10/2021

Come join us today for our first brown bag lunch of the semester at noon! We'll be hosting our very own Dr. Jesse Reimink, who does science outreach as a co-host of a podcast called Planet Geo which launched last fall. We aim to discuss science outreach and communications with Jesse, as well as what it’s like to contribute to a podcast.

Brown Bag lunch with Dr. Jesse Reimink: Feb 10 @ noon We’re going to have our first brown bag of the semester next Wednesday (2/10) at high noon! We’ll be hosting our very own Dr. Jesse Reimink, who does science outreach as a co-host of a podcast called Planet Geo which launched last fall. We ai...

11/18/2020

Great inaugural AWG trivia night! Thanks to Ben Barnes for being the best trivia master, and congrats to team 'Three Rocks and a reel' for taking home a win!

11/16/2020

Have you ever wanted to beat your committee members in a trivia contest? Have you ever wanted to dazzle your colleagues with your command of useless knowledge? Do you want to raise money for AWG scholarships? Well, now is your chance! AWG has organized a Geoscience Department trivia session hosted by none other than resident trivia master Mr. Ben Barnes. Everyone, undergrad, grad, post-docs, and faculty are welcome and encouraged to participate!



The date is Nov. 17th at 7pm. The place is Ben Barnes’ zoom room (link will follow after signing up).



There is a $5 per person charge to participate (payable to Adam-Benfield-3 via Venmo). All proceeds are put towards AWG field camp scholarships. To sign up, please fill out this google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16Uf4lvAOcvaFRxTz-FgH3-Bin8bJLk3xuxLj0iAA9z8/edit?usp=sharing

You don't need to be a current student to join! All are welcome. :)

Sheet1 Trivia Sign-Up,Team Sign-Up Name,Email,Paid? (Venmo: Adam-Benfield-3),Need a team? (Y or N),Person #,Team 1,Team 2,Team 3,Team 4,Team 5,Team 6 aka Ladies of the Lab,Team 7,Team 8,Team 9,Team 10,....,Team ∞ Adam Benfield,[email protected],Yes,N,Person 1,Adam B. ,Erin & Roman,Cake Cipar,Austin ...

11/10/2020

TOMORROW, November 10th we have 2 important events!

1) Coffee hour with Dr. Amanda Hendrix at 1:30 pm

2) General meeting at 5:15 pm

And don't forget to ~sign up for trivia~
https://sites.psu.edu/awgpennstate/