Lauren Zarzar, assistant professor of chemistry at Penn State, was selected as the recipient of the 2019 Unilever Award by the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
Sylvia Bintrim of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, will be honored as the student marshal for the Eberly College of Science during Penn State’s spring commencement ceremonies on May 4.
Joshua Norfolk, a physics major, is currently in his third year at Penn State. During his sophomore year, Joshua became involved with the Student Space Programs Laboratory (SSPL) — a program that allows undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to design, fabricate and integrate space systems. Since then, Joshua and his team were given the opportunity to travel all the way to Andøya, Norway, in order to work alongside NASA. Taylor Graham, a Student Engagement Network intern, had the chance to sit down and speak with Norfolk about his recent experience.
Once the fodder of science fiction books and movies, Artificial intelligence -- AI -- and machine learning are making an impact on nearly every facet of society.
Physical traits and behaviors that make a lizard sexy — features used to attract potential mates and fend off competitors — may be important enough that they do not change in the face of stress, according to a team of researchers at Penn State.
Zhijian ‘James’ Chen, director of the Inflammation Research Center and George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, will present the 2018/2019 Robert W. Stone Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 30, on the Penn State University Park campus.
Two new probable gravitational waves have been detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo observatory in Italy in the first weeks after the detectors were updated.
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory — including researchers at Penn State — has discovered a bright burst of X-rays in a galaxy 6.6 billion light years from Earth, an event that likely signals the merger of two neutron stars.
Susan M. Gasser, director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and professor of molecular biology at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland, will present the Russell Marker Lectures in Genetic Engineering on April 22 and 23 at the Penn State University Park campus.
Penn State President Eric Barron presented 11 awards to more than 30 graduate students in recognition of outstanding achievement during the annual Graduate Student Awards Luncheon held April 11 at the Nittany Lion Inn.
Thirteen graduate students received the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award, Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Medal in recognition of their outstanding professional accomplishment and achievement in scholarly research in any of the disciplinary areas of arts and humanities; social sciences—applied and basic; physical and computational sciences—applied and basic; life and health sciences; and engineering.
Ten Penn State graduate students have received the 2019 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award.
Doctoral student Molly Rathbun has been awarded the Academic Computing Fellowship. The fellowship is offered through a partnership between the Graduate School and Penn State Information Technology Services. It was established in 1987.
Computers can now automatically crop photos to capture the most interesting part in an aesthetically pleasing manner, thanks to researchers at Penn State.
The construction of a new multimodal optical microscope, SCATTIRSTORM, that could enable more efficient bioenergy production, is the focus of a three-year, $1.5 million, U.S. Department of Energy grant awarded to three Penn State researchers.
