Physical Sciences

Piece of Chemistry History Donated to Penn State Department of Chemistry
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Chemistry major honored as fall 2020 outstanding guided study group leader
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Frank Bolton

Chemistry major Frank Bolton has been honored as an outstanding guided study group leader.

Recurring ‘Weather World’ segment takes viewers to space, beyond
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Neese and Palma on Weather World set

Penn State astronomer Chris Palma has participated on Penn State’s “Weather World" segment for almost a decade.

Quantum insulators create multilane highways for electrons
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QAH insulators as legos

Penn State researchers demonstrated a quantum phenomenon in a multilayered insulator, producing a multilane highway for electrons.

A Message on Building Learning Communities
Associate Professor Ben Lear Completes Fulbright Fellowship in Finland
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Bean Lear in Finland
2D-materials center ready to move to new phase, add industry partners
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Illustrated vision for the center

The Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings is expanding to add more collaborative partners.

Lauren Zarzar receives Marion Milligan Mason Award
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Lauren Zarzar
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment survey begins full operations
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope at dusk
Astronomers develop model for the distribution of inner planetary systems
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many planetary systems

A new study helps explain some of the intriguing questions about exoplanets raised by the Kepler space telescope.

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