Penn State’s Presidential Leadership Academy (PLA) has accepted its new cohort of 30 second-year students. Housed within the Schreyer Honors College, this is PLA’s 16th class since its founding by ...
Related article at The Conversation. On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In 1955, Penn State Professor of Physics Erwin W. Müller became the first person to see an atom. Using a field ion microscope of his own invention — a landmark advance in ...
A pair of new grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) will support an international research collaboration and student exchange program between ...
New computer simulations that model every atom of a protein as it folds into its final three-dimensional form support the existence of a recently identified type of protein misfolding. Proteins must ...
The Penn State Eberly College of Science is introducing a new series of outreach events — Science Matters: Spotlight Sessions — to provide a unique opportunity for the community to engage directly ...
The Department of Physics welcomes its newest tenure-line faculty members. Thomas Iadecola, associate professor of physics, is a co-hire of the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences ...
The Department of Biology welcomes its newest tenure-line faculty members. John Majoris, assistant professor of biology, researches the dispersal of coral larvae. In coral reef ecosystems, tiny larvae ...
The efficiency of quantum computers, sensors and other applications often relies on the properties of electrons, including how they are spinning. One of the most accurate systems for high performance ...
Runze Li, Eberly Family Chair Professor in Statistics, has been selected to serve as co-editor-elect of the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) for 2026 and as co-editor of JASA ...
This year, the world is marking the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, the beginning of a scientific revolution so important that it prompted the United Nations to declare 2025 as the ...
2025 has been designated the “Year of Quantum” by the United Nations to recognize the contributions that have been made in quantum science since the development of quantum mechanics 100 years ago. To ...