Physical Sciences

Eberly faculty support enthusiastic teachers
Teachers Keith Saroka, Valerie Knaver, and Lenny Barsody show a Sloan Digital Sky Survey plug plate. It is a surplus aluminum plate from the Apache Point Observatory that was used to help gather spectra from a specific set of astronomical objects.
Five Penn State researchers awarded grants by Kaufman Foundation
Shandera, Jeong, Hanna headshots

The Charles E. Kaufman Foundation has selected two projects led by Penn State researchers to receive New Initiatives grants.

Department of Chemistry Announces New Display to Celebrate Teas Scholars
Chemistry Students Recognized by National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program
Aaron Garner Receives Priestley Teaching Prize
garner
Bevilacqua named 2020 Penn State Teaching Fellow
Philip Bevilacqua
Chemistry Graduate Student Launches Club to Promote STEM Careers
Bio-tech cluster added to Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor program
Woman at microscope

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor now has a biotech option.

Quantum copycat: Researchers find a new way in which bosons behave like fermions
Light trap apparatus
New type of pulsating star discovered
tear-drop pulsar with companion star

A new type of pulsating star that oscillates largely over only one of its hemispheres has been discovered.

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