Physical Sciences

Click Chemistry: The Nobel Prize Winner Being Used in the Penn State Department of Chemistry
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click chemistry
Zarzar honored with Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award
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Lauren Zarzar for the Office for Innovation intellectual property website.

Lauren Zarzar, associate professor of chemistry, has received the Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award.

Mostafá honored with Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award
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Miguel Mostafa

Miguel Mostafá, professor of physics and of astronomy and astrophysics, has received the Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award in 2022.

Two Penn State physicists elected as Fellows of the APS
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Radu Roiban and Zoltan Fodor

Penn State Professors of Physics Radu Roiban and Zoltan Fodor have been elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society.

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope reaches 25th anniversary milestone
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The Hobby-Eberly Telescope — one of the world’s largest optical telescopes and a premier planet-finding facility, conceived by Penn State astronomers. Credit: Penn State
Some everyday materials have memories, and now they can be erased
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dish of mayonnaise melds into graph of particle distribution
Penn State’s high-precision X-ray instrument makes its first trip to space
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McEntaffer holds tool to spectrometer

An X-ray instrument, designed and fabricated at Penn State, recently scanned an exploded star, testing technology for future NASA missions.

Nittany Chemical Society receives an "Outstanding" in their local ACS Student Chapter Report
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NCS 2022
Chemistry Alumni Interview Series: Eric Schwarz
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eric schwarz
Penn State chemistry alumnus Alain Bonny named 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellow
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Alain Bonny
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