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Awards and Honors

Lauren Zarzar awarded an Air Force Young Investigator Program research grant

In Focus

Are We Alone in the Universe?

The tip of the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA Great Observatories. The SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy. Credit: NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/STScI

Research

Oil droplet predators chase oil droplet prey

Oil droplets in surfactant solution

Awards and Honors, Student Stories

Michelle Wijaya to represent Eberly College of Science as fall 2020 student marshal

Michelle Wijaya Fall Commencement 2020 student marshal story featured image.

Awards and Honors

From Science to Business: Meet Three Students in the B.S./M.B.A. Program

BS/MBA

Research

Could SARS-CoV-2 evolve resistance to COVID-19 vaccines?

illustration of 3 ways sars-cov-2 might develop vaccine resistance

Alumni Interview: A Q&A with Petri Bio cofounder and CEO Shu Li

Shu Li

Rainbow Science Network: Inclusive scientists, inclusive science

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Faculty Announcements

Penn State joins national effort to develop more inclusive, diverse STEM faculty

Old Main from below

Research

Q&A with the Penn State LIGO group

Artist impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credit: R. Hurt, Caltech/JPL

In Focus

Worlds Beyond

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, used by Alex Wolszczan in his co-discovery of the first exoplanets in 1992. Credit: NAIC Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF

Research

Next-generation astronomical survey makes its first observations toward a new understanding of the cosmos

starfield and two panels of graphs