Nasim defends PhD + new article on her solar farm field work

Congrats to Rouhangiz ‘Nasim’ Yavari who defended her dissertation this summer. One of her chapters focused on documenting hydrologic, soil, and vegetation characteristics on solar farms. This work was recently published in Journal of Hydrology and...

Tahiya Tarannum selected as a 3 Minute Thesis Finalist

Penn State held its inaugural 3 Minute Thesis competition in March, where doctoral candidates were invited to explain their research to a broad audience in less than 3 minutes. McPhillips Lab PhD student Tahiya Tarannum was a finalist in the competition, presenting on...

Congrats to summer graduates Alex and Bishwodeep!!

Huge congratulations to Bishwodeep and Alex on their graduation from Penn State Graduate School this summer 2023!! Bishwodeep just finished his PhD on field monitoring of green infrastructure function. Alex just finished his MS on a greenhouse experiment of stormwater...