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Students can get cool rocks, minerals and fossils and learn more about nature at the annual Minerals Junior Education Day. The educational program is designed to encourage the interest of students in grades one through eight in the earth sciences.

A paper coauthored by Russell Graham, director of Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Museum & Art Gallery and professor of geosciences, received the Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Each year, PNAS gives the award to the best published paper of outstanding scientific excellence and originality in the six broadly defined scientific areas of the National Academy of Sciences.