To commemorate its 10th anniversary, Penn State's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds will host a celebration on April 2, with three sessions of talks and panel discussions for technical, academic and public audiences.
Rodney Allen Trice's "Walk a Mile..." project aims to use immersive technology to spark empathy and conversations among diverse audiences. It won the 2019 Open Innovation Challenge.
Jason Wright, an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and member of the University's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, has been named the recipient of the 2019 Drake Award by the SETI Institute.
David Toews, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Ned K. Johnson Early Investigator Award by the American Ornithological Society, an international society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of birds.
A new method allows the quantum state of atomic “qubits” — the basic unit of information in quantum computers — to be measured with 20 times less error than was previously possible, without losing any atoms.
In December 2018, a team of five Penn State students from the College of Arts and Architecture, the Eberly College of Science, the College of Engineering, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology joined forces to earn the top spot in the international Kaggle University Hackathon, the first-ever university hackathon of its kind.
Jean Brenchley, professor emeritus of microbiology and biotechnology at Penn State, has committed to establish the Dr. Jean E. Brenchley Endowment for WPSU-FM through an estate gift. Brenchley’s preference is for the funds to be used to ensure the continuation of “Morning Edition” and “Science Friday,” two programs produced by NPR, that she said are her longtime companions in daily life.
Xiaojun "Lance" Lian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was one of three recipients of the College of Engineering's ENGineering for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (ENGINE) grant for "Small Molecule-Based Definitive Endoderm Kit and Pancreatic Progenitor Kit for Stem Cell Research and Therapy." The project focuses on differentiating stem cells into pancreatic beta cells to be used for therapies to treat Type 1 diabetes.
Students from Penn State's Schreyer Honors College had their perspectives changed during a service trip to an orphanage in Entebbe, Uganda this winter.
Each year, Penn State honors several students for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. The 2019 student award recipients exemplify best practices and achievements among Penn State students, reflecting the University's mission of teaching, research and service.
Kelsey Crow, senior double-major in biology and psychology at Penn State, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Eric A. Walker Award.
During Penn State Startup Week 2019, the Eberly College of Science will host a series of five seminars, to be presented by alumni, faculty and student entrepreneurs.
"Frustration" plus a pulse of laser light resulted in a stable "supercrystal" created by a team of researchers led by Penn State and Argonne National Laboratory, together with University of California, Berkeley, and two other national laboratories.
The Penn State Alumni Association will honor prominent young alumni at the Alumni Achievement Awards on March 29.
Sarah M. Assmann, Waller Professor of Biology at Penn State, has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of The Plant Cell, one of the top research journals in plant biology.
