Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Creates Ombuds Program

College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, a 125 year old constituent, semi-autonomous part of Pennsylvania, has unveiled a Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Ombuds Program. "The program is comprised of graduate faculty volunteers serving as ombuds in their own departments [selected by their department, rather than elected and] students and postdocs within EMS can choose to meet with any ombudsperson across the college." The program is independent of the existing Penn State Ombuds offices for faculty and graduate students.

Eight new Ombuds have been appointed:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

• Luis Ayala, Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
• Derek Elsworth, Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental 

Engineering Geography

• Jennifer Baka, Assistant Professor of Geography 

Geosciences

• Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Professor of Geosciences 

Materials Science and Engineering

• Tze-Chiang (Mike) Chung, Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering 
• Venkatraman Gopalan, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering 

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

• Jerry Harrington, Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science 
• Sukyoung Lee, Professor of Meteorology

(PSUEMS Ombuds.)

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