In a typical year, Reno, Nevada, receives just seven and a half inches of rain. For Samantha McBride, the newest faculty member in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, growing up in such an arid environment made clear the importance of water. “There’s a whole campaign for the Truckee River and Lake Tahoe,” she says. “People really take environmental challenges seriously because we have such limited water.” Read more at Penn Today.