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Awards and Honors

Five Penn State researchers awarded grants by Kaufman Foundation

Shandera, Jeong, Hanna headshots

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Research

Evidence found for cloaked black hole in early universe

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NSF mid-scale award sets off the first extension of IceCube

Sun setting behind the IceCube Lab at the South Pole. The Antarctic detector that identified the first likely source of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays, is getting an upgrade that will extend its scientific capabilities to lower energies. Credit: Kathrin Mallot, IceCube/NSF

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Awards and Honors

Aishwarya Kumar selected to meet with Nobel Laureates

Aishwarya Kumar

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Awards and Honors

Mauricio Terrones Named Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics

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Research

Adding a carbon atom transforms 2D semiconducting material

Schematic of plasma assisted carbon-hydrogen species doping in the WS2 lattice. Credit: Fu Zhang, Penn State

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LIGO and Virgo Detect Neutron Star Smash-Ups

Illustration of two merging neutron stars. The rippling space-time grid represents gravitational waves that travel out from the collision. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet

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Student Stories

Penn State physics student joins forces with NASA in Norway

Penn State student Joshua Norfolk standing above the beach beside the Andøya Space Center.

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Research

First ever open public alerts from LIGO: Two probable black-hole mergers spotted in first weeks after gravitational-wave detector is updated

LIGO Laboratory operates two detector sites, one near Hanford in eastern Washington, and another near Livingston, Louisiana. This photo shows the Hanford detector site. Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab

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Awards and Honors

Axtell and Rigol receive 2019 Faculty Scholar Medals

Michael Axtell, professor of biology, and Marcos Rigol, professor of physics.

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Research

Extremely accurate measurements of atom states for quantum computing

New method allows extremely accurate measurement of the quantum state of atomic qubits—the basic unit of information in quantum computers. Credit: Weiss Laboratory, Penn State

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Faculty Announcements

Penn State exoplanet center celebrates 10-year anniversary

Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds

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