Life Sciences

The Reflexion Edge
student in Reflexion shirt interacts with device
Part passion, part parentage
Jon Westlake in front of New York Stock Exchange sign
Scientists turned seadogs: A study abroad experience
Ship on ocean full of study abroad studens
Recruiting and retaining STEM students of color
Karina Grullon
For first-year biology students, it’s “time to science”
Teaching Students for FRI
Imaging the very fibers of being
Daniel Cosgrove with a 3D-printed model of a plant cell wall. Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State.
Person to Person: Nicole Hackenbrack
Nicole Hackenbrack
Resolution Revolution
SUSAN HAFENSTEIN WITH THE TITAN/KRIOS microscope at Penn State, which allows researchers to quickly create atomic-resolution 3D models of biological, chemical, and synthetic structures through a process called cryo–electron microscopy, or cryoEM. Hafenstein is the director of the cryoEM facilites at the Penn State University Park campus. Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State
Girirajan awarded C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching
Axtell awarded the Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology
Michael J. Axtell
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