Physical Sciences

Thomas Mallouk Selected as Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Tom Mallouk
Wolszczan Honored with National Geographic Traveler Grand Prix Award
Alexander Wolszczan
Gibble Honored with the European Frequency and Time Award
Kurt Gibble
New Effort to Learn How Our Galaxy Formed Makes Public Release of Its First Data
This map shows an infrared view of the Milky Way, as seen from Earth, plus the infrared spectra of two stars. Credit: Peter Frinchaboy (Texas Christian University), Ricardo Schiavon (Liverpool John Moores University), and the SDSS-III collaboration. Infrared sky image from 2MASS, IPAC/Caltech, and University of Massachusetts.
Three Penn State Researchers Receive Inaugural Grants from Charles Kaufman Foundation
Chen Receives Amgen Young Investigator's Award
Chen Receives National Science Foundation Career Award
Mercedes Richards Honored as Woman Physicist of the Month by the American Physical Society
Mercedes Richards
Penn State Science Research Faculty Participate in a Workshop Aimed to Improve Science Education
Raymond Schaak, professor of chemistry
Nanoparticle Opens the Door to Clean-Energy Alternatives
A transmission-electron microscope image of a collection of quasi-spherical nickel phosphide nanoparticles. A team led by Raymond Schaak of Penn State University has found that these nanoparticles can catalyze an important chemical reaction that generates hydrogen from water. Credit: Eric Popczun, Penn State University
Best Ultraviolet Map of the Nearest Galaxies Now Revealed
Nearly a million ultraviolet sources appear in this mosaic of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which was assembled from 2,200 images taken by Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope. UV image credit: NASA/Swift/S. Immler (Goddard) and M. Siegel (Penn State). Visible image credit: Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan Univ.
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