College of Earth and Mineral Sciences faculty member named 2024 Packard Fellow

Tushar Mittal, assistant professor of geosciences in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, was named a 2024 Packard Fellow by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Mittal is among this year’s class that features 20 innovative early-career scientists and engineers, each of whom will receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.