First Gravity prize in the annual international competition, awarded by the Gravity Research Foundation, Massachusetts, 1977. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1981-1985. Chancellor's Citation for ...

DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry and Associate Department Head for Research ...

Three finalists will offer presentations of their research in Pattee Library and Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium and via Zoom 28 April 2026 Penn State University Libraries and the Schreyer Honors ...

Graduate students are invited to apply for Department research awards which are to recognize research accomplishments, publications and talks. The awards are recommended to be used to assist students ...

Public health strategies, from vaccination to improving sanitary conditions, may have different impacts depending on whether a disease is endemic — persisting in a particular location for an extended ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Seventy years ago, in Osmond Laboratory on Penn State’s University Park campus, Erwin W. Müller, Evan Pugh Research Professor of Physics, became the first person to see an atom.

A new technique allows astronomers to home in on planets beyond our solar system that are in line with each other and with Earth to search for radio signals similar, for example, to ones used to ...

About a thousand students each year pass through the sixth floor of Mueller Lab. Nestled among biology labs and study spaces, one lab in particular provides students with a unique opportunity to study ...

Professor Emeritus Michael Brin of the University of Maryland has endowed an international prize for outstanding work in the theory of dynamical systems and related areas. The prize is given for ...

Editor's note: This story was written by Todd LaJeunesse, Wilson Hewitt Professor of Biology, and Caleb Butler, graduate student in ecology, for the Penn State Institute of Energy and the ...

Thomas Building is home to the Eberly College of Science Dean's Office and Department of Statistics. It also houses members of the Forensic Science program, as well as general purpose classrooms and ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth. The model, which ...