Physical Sciences

Research Lab Profile: Muechler Group
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muechler group
Q&A PAW Pals creator Emma Steinebronn
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Emma Steinbronn teaching students
Chemistry Alumna Julianne Wolfe talks career shift and offers undergrads advice on 'essential skills' for problem solving
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Julianne Wolfe
Q&A: Meet the Graduate Student Newsletter's Editors
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Divya Singh and Katie Yan
New, simple and accessible method creates potency-increasing structure in drugs
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gloved hands hold syringe and small glass bottle. Credit National Cancer Institute

A new method by Penn State researchers offers a simple, safe way to create cyclopropanes—a feature that increases the potency of many drugs.

Q&A: Penn State chemistry graduate student Alyssa (Bienvenu) Santos
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Alyssa (Bienvenu) Santos

We asked Alyssa (Bienvenu) Santos, who recently graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry from Penn State, about her experience as a grad student

Chemistry students conduct summer research with support from the Benkovic Scholarship
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Q&A: Penn State statistics graduate student Alina Kuvelkar
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Alina Kuvelkar, a doctoral student in statistics at Penn State, serves as a teaching assistant at the University’s 18th annual  Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers. Credit: Jordan Futrick, Penn State

Penn State doctoral student Alina Kuvelkar recently served as a teaching assistant for the 18th Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers.

Heard on Campus: NASA’s Nick Siegler at the Penn State SETI symposium
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Nick Siegler speaking at the second annual Penn State SETI Symposium

Nick Siegler, program manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spoke at the second annual Penn State SETI Symposium.

Stephen Benkovic named Atherton Professor
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Steven Benkovic

Penn State chemisty Stephen Benkovic has been named Atherton Professor.

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