Jackie Bortiatynski at her retirement party. In 1984, Jackie Bortiatynski began graduate school at Penn State in a cohort of 40 with only nine women, including her, and graduated with a doctoral ...

Ken Knappenberger (right) and graduate student Daniel Heintzelman align a laser beam in order to understand ultrafast electron dynamics in quantum materials. Credit: Michelle Bixby Eberly College of ...

The Penn State Department of Statistics will hold the C.R. Rao Prize Conference, a daylong event that includes talks, a poster session, and the awarding of the prestigious C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize, ...

Liu earned her doctoral degree in chemistry from McGill University, her master's degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and her bachelor’s degree from Xiangtan University. She conducted ...

Wen Jiang, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Structural Biology and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, investigates the structures of diverse biological systems using ...

Program Summary The Eberly College of Science is committed to supporting our researchers in translating their research for society. Translation is an early part of technology transfer where scientific ...

“A tale of two gases: Classical and quantum” Presented by Marcos Rigol Professor of Physics March 22, 2025 100 Thomas Building 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The college will be hosting Admitted Student Events for students with an offer to attend the University Park campus on the following dates, focusing on specific majors within the college. Register now ...

Chad Brunswick, a Ph.D candidate in the Huck Institutes’ intercollege graduate degree program in Neuroscience, has been awarded a prestigious National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National ...

Many materials store information about what has happened to them in a sort of material memory, like wrinkles on a once crumpled piece of paper. Now, a team led by Penn State physicists has uncovered ...

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Pinchen Fan is an astronomy and astrophysics graduate student with a dual title in astrobiology. She recently shared with us her experience organizing the 2024 Assembly of the Order of the Octopus. Q: ...