Physical Sciences

Keegan McCoy Receives USRA Education Award
John Nousek, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, and director of the Swift Satellite Mission Operations Center; Keegan McCoy; and Larry Ramsey, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, and Keegan's research supervisor.
Robinson Named 2011 Co-op Student of the Year
Robinson Named 2011 Co-op Student of the Year
Squire Booker Receives Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Squire Booker Receives Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Molecular Depth Profiling Modeled Using Buckyballs and Low-Energy Argon
Buckyball Image
Penn State Awarded $3.3 Million to Build Instrument for Finding Planets in Habitable Zones Around Nearby Stars
Credit: Marty Harris/McDonald Obs./UT-Austin
Lasse Jensen Named a Presidential Early Career Award Winner
Lasse Jensen Named a Presidential Early Career Award Winner
Raymond Schaak Receives National Fresenius Award
Raymond Schaak Receives National Fresenius Award
Record-breaking Solar Cell Announced by Multinational Research Team
Credit: John Asbury lab, Penn State University Highest ever power conversion efficiency in a colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cell has been achieved using inorganic ligands. Credit: John Asbury lab, Penn State University.
Winograd Receives an American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry
Winograd Receives an American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry
Innovative Nanoparticle Purification System Uses Magnetic Fields
"Nano-olives" are made up of an iron oxide "olive" with an iron and platinum "pimento." Together the components make a highly magnetic particle structure, which may one day be useful for data storage in computers. Credit: The Schaak/Williams research groups, Penn State.
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