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 ...

The Penn State Eberly College of Science Office for Undergraduate Students is hosting a new event in Ritenour Building on Sept. 5 from 2 to 4 p.m. designed to help students dive into their ...

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 Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State has secured a major new asset in structural biology and mechanobiology research with the award of a $750,000 grant from the Office of Research ...

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 ...

The motion of particles in a classical gas is famously chaotic. A simple and common consequence of this chaos is that an enclosed gas equilibrates to a single temperature, which is why letting cold ...

Biotechnology Mini Summer School is an opportunity for high school students who are fascinated by DNA and biotechnology and are interested in learning more about cutting-edge research in ...

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with Earth-like technology, would they be able to detect Earth and evidence of humanity? If so, what signals would they detect and from how far away? A new ...

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 ...