Greater Allegheny professor earns promotion to associate professor
6/14/18
Penn State Greater Allegheny's Megan Nagel has been promoted to associate professor within the chemistry department.
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CyberScience co-hire awarded ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
5/17/18
Edward O’Brien, assistant professor of chemistry and an Institute for CyberScience faculty co-hire, has been awarded the American Chemical Society's OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry. O’Brien's researched utilized computational chemistry methods to identify new mechanical forces acting on ribosomes, the molecular machines that make proteins.
Beaver faculty, area professionals encourage girls to 'be a boss' at STEM event
5/11/18
More than 70 students from four Beaver County school districts participated in W.I.S.E. UP, Penn State Beaver's day of STEM-related workshops and panels for seventh-grade girls.
Family establishes memorial scholarship for chemistry students
12/21/17
A scholarship in honor of the late Matthew Gibson has been established at Penn State Hazleton by his parents, Paul and Lori Gibson. The Matthew Gibson Memorial Scholarship will provide financial support to assist full-time undergraduate students in their first or second year who are interested in pursuing their education in the field of chemistry.
99-year-old alumnus leverages University match to create graduate fellowship
10/31/17
Class of 1939 alumnus Robert “Bob” Hasek celebrated his 99th birthday in July with a philanthropic milestone. With a gift of $265,000 to endow the Dr. Robert H. Hasek Graduate Fellowship in the Eberly College of Science, Hasek became the first Penn State supporter to leverage the University’s Graduate Scholarship Matching Program, an initiative of "A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence."
Student gets inside view of geosciences as Badlands National Park intern
10/25/17
Maggie Kuzemchak, a junior double-majoring in Earth science and chemistry, spent her summer interning at Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
Tribe named Fellow of American Chemical Society
6/27/17
Lorena Tribe, associate professor of chemistry at Penn State Berks, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. She is the only professor at a Penn State campus other than University Park to receive this honor.
Who knew science could smell so good?
5/26/17
McDowell High School's organic chemistry class visited Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on May 17 for a day of hands-on chemistry experiments in an academic chemistry lab.
Beaver chemistry professor awarded equipment grant
5/10/17
Associate Professor of Chemistry Michael Hay received a $6,000 grant from the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh, which promotes science education by providing instrumentation and supplies through its College Equipment Grants Program.
Squire Booker elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
4/14/17
Squire J. Booker, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — one of the nation’s oldest honorary societies.
Cotruvo named Louis Martarano Career Development Professor of Chemistry
11/7/16
Joseph Cotruvo Jr., assistant professor of chemistry, has been named the Louis Martarano Career Development Professor of Chemistry at Penn State. The professorship was created to provide critical financial support and encouragement for faculty starting their careers in the Eberly College of Science at Penn State
Berks ACS chapter receives Green Chemistry Award
10/27/16
The Penn State Berks chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS), a student organization, has been honored with a Green Chemistry Chapter Award from the ACS Green Chemistry Institute for completing three projects that highlight the value of green chemistry to people and the environment.
Getting students to 'flip' over chemistry
3/25/16
Penn State Professor of Chemistry Philip Bevilacqua used different technologies and blended classroom techniques to create an engaging course for his students. He describes his approach as a "partially flipped" classroom.
Hazleton student, professor present at American Chem. Society meeting
3/14/16
A Penn State Hazleton student and his professor are in California presenting at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting.
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Simple mechanism identified for assembly and disassembly of structures in cells
12/21/15
For the first time, scientists have demonstrated a simple charge-based mechanism for regulating the formation and dissolution of liquid-like structures that lack outer membranes inside cells. The research provides a first step in deciphering how these poorly-understood structures function in the cell and how they may have evolved. A paper describing the research by Penn State University scientists will appear on December 21, 2015, as an advance online publication of the journal, Nature Chemistry.