December 2015

Science Journal

Learning from lizards, reinventing statistics education, and news from around the college.

I am struck by the passion that our faculty and students have for learning, discovery, and problem solving; the dedication of our hard-working staff in keeping the college running efficiently and in collegial manner; and the engagement and generosity of our science alumni.
Douglas R. Cavener
Douglas R. Cavener, interim dean of Penn State's Eberly College of Science. Image: Patrick Mansell
depiction of a molecule or atom
Transition state: A change of leadership in the Department of Chemistry
comic of Capture Recapture
Reinventing statistics education

The search for Earthlike exoplanets

Jason Wright

Mechanisms to improve insulin regulation

Doug Cavener, Verne M. Willaman Dean

Survey for dark energy

The HETDEX Team at Penn State

Fostering a close-knit academic community

First Year Science and Engineering Program

Teaching new pedagogy strategy in china

Teaching New Strategy in China

Staff highlight

Christine Selders
2015 Science Tailgate
All Science Tailgate
Our goal in establishing the professorship is to help the Department of Chemistry to support bright, young, faculty members at the very start of their teaching and research careers. We want to help assure that Penn State will have scientists, scholars, and educators with the greatest potential to contribute to our students, to our University, and to our world.
Steven Weinreb
Steven and Nancy Weinreb