A team of researchers has taken another step toward understanding the mechanical force of protein synthesis, and created a mathematical model that can help guide future work on the process.
The College of Engineering partnered with The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security to host a three-day workshop, a joint initiative to understand the evolving interactions between technology and our economic, political and social institutions, in Washington, D.C. A goal for participants was to learn how leaders use strategic foresight to better understand and anticipate changes that human-technology systems create and how to design strategies and develop options to better navigate those changes.
Philip Bevilacqua, distinguished professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been named the new head of the Penn State Department of Chemistry, effective Aug. 15.
Penn State Greater Allegheny's Megan Nagel has been promoted to associate professor within the chemistry department.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Maggie Kuzemchak, a junior double-majoring in Earth science and chemistry, spent her summer interning at Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
