In photos: Haunted-U | Eberly College of Science

28 October 2025

The Penn State Eberly College of Science Office of Science Outreach hosted the annual Haunted-U celebration that blended spooky fun with hands-on science. The Halloween-themed science event featured spooky science experiments, haunted lab tours, and trick-or-treating.

Child and adult give each other a high-five in front of a dark red display featuring a skeleton graphic and the words “in the humerus skeleton.” The background includes a chalkboard and classroom furniture.

Person wearing a white sweatshirt and patterned head covering pours yellow liquid from a large plastic pitcher into a smaller graduated cylinder on a table covered with a white cloth. Small colorful objects and straws are scattered on the table, and a chalkboard with faint writing and cobweb decorations is in the background.

Individual with colorful cat ear headband leans over a black-covered table, assisting children with a hands-on activity involving clear cups and small containers. The setting appears to be a hallway or classroom with wooden doors and arched windows in the background.

Child in a striped shirt uses a dropper to add liquid to clear cups filled with colored solutions on a lab counter. Additional cups, droppers, and pumpkins are visible in the background.

Two individuals at a lab counter hold test tubes with layered colored substances. Nearby are a clear plastic cup, funnels, and Halloween-themed decorations.

Person wearing a black witch hat hands a colorful item to a child in front of a whiteboard with blue marker drawings of circles and arrows.

Person wearing a NASA cap and denim shirt demonstrates an activity using a vacuum hose in a clear container of sand, with children observing. A whiteboard with a volcano diagram and the word “MANTLE” is in the background.

Person standing near a whiteboard with animal picture cards attached, including a frog, squirrel, and camel, while others sit in the foreground.

Person holding a flask with purple liquid in a decorated science-themed room.

Person in a black shirt draws a ghost figure on a chalkboard using white chalk. A spiderweb design is already drawn on the board, and yellow caution tape decorates the edges. The person holds a small container of chalk pieces in one hand while sketching with the other. A window with a mesh screen is visible in the background.