Learning Assistants (LAs) are integral to the Department of Physics' commitment to excellence in undergraduate education. Serving as peer educators, LAs collaborate with faculty to facilitate active ...

The Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos is hosting an Alumni and Friends Reunion on May 30-31 at the Hyatt meeting room in State College, Pennsylvania. This event will feature presentations by ...

Certain DNA sequences can form structures other than the canonical double helix. These alternative DNA conformations — referred to as non-B DNA — have been implicated as regulators of cellular ...

The winners of the 17th annual Materials Visualization Competition (MVC), a scientific visual and artistic competition sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the ...

John Panitz with a variety of lab equipment in his museum. In 1955, the late Erwin Müller, Evan Pugh Research Professor of Physics, became the first person to “see” an atom, using a Field Ion ...

Bin Yan, associate vice president for research and director of the Penn State Office of Technology Transfer, presents the Beecher Loftus Technology Transfer Catalyst Award to Matt Rhodes, managing ...

The Penn State Eberly College of Science has honored two faculty members with the 2025 C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching. Instituted in 1972 and named in honor of Clarence I. Noll, dean of ...

Abdulkareem Alshaheeb, Kelle Hart, and Shio Sakon, each received awards at the 2025 Graduate Exhibition, hosted by the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School on Friday, March 28, on the ...

Nate Carey of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, will be honored as the student marshal for the Penn State Eberly College of Science at the University’s spring 2025 commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 11, ...

Eight Penn State Eberly College of Science students and alumni pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees have received fellowship offers from the National Science Foundation Graduate ...

Differences among the DNA of seven ape species — including humans — are greater than originally thought, according to an international team led by researchers at Penn State, the National Human Genome ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...