Jain was named the 2025 winner alongside fellow physicists Mordehai “Moty” Heiblum, who “pioneered experimental verification of these exotic particles,” and James Eisenstein, who “co-discovered the ...

In order to help achieve this part of our mission, our office has created the online Broader Impacts Resource Center (BIRC) to better assist faculty in learning about their outreach options and ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps. For Kevin Luhman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, ...

Ryan Henrici, a class of 2015 graduate who majored in biochemistry and molecular biology, is one of eight prominent young alumni who will be honored by the Penn State Alumni Association at the 2025 ...

Professor Phair has gone missing. Detective Soto suspects foul play, but she has no eye–witnesses, no suspects, and no leads. How do you solve a crime when you can’t even prove that one has been ...

Proteins are long molecules that must fold into complex three-dimensional structures to perform their cellular functions. This folding process occasionally goes awry, resulting in misfolded proteins ...

“I just think that if I am not the one to tell my story, then it won’t be told,” said Nazifa Tabassum, molecular, cellular, and integrative biosciences graduate student, when asked why she decided to ...

A synthetic microbiome therapy, tested in mice, protects against severe symptoms of a gut infection that is notoriously difficult-to-treat and potentially life threatening in humans, according to a ...

Sarah Assmann, Waller Professor of Plant Biology at Penn State, has been awarded the Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology. The award was established through a generous gift from Masatoshi Nei, ...

K. R. Purdy Drew and J. Pogliano. Dynamic Instability Driven Centering/Segregating Mechanism in Bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108 ...

George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Head of the Department of Physics, Evan Pugh University Professor, Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering ...