Physical Sciences

Six Eberly College of Science students offered graduate funding from National Science Foundation and Department of Energy
First ever open public alerts from LIGO: Two probable black-hole mergers spotted in first weeks after gravitational-wave detector is updated
LIGO Laboratory operates two detector sites, one near Hanford in eastern Washington, and another near Livingston, Louisiana. This photo shows the Hanford detector site. Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab
A new signal for a neutron star collision discovered
A bright burst of X-rays discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory likely signals the merger of two neutron stars— dense stellar objects packed mainly with neutrons. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Science and Technology of China/Y. Xue et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
Chemistry Undergraduates Sylvia Bintrim and Laine Mosco Named Commencement Marshals
Bintrim Mosco
2018 Peter Craig Breen Memorial Award
Baxter and Bortiatynski receive 2019 Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching
Jacqueline Bortiatynski and Andrew Baxter
Axtell and Rigol receive 2019 Faculty Scholar Medals
Michael Axtell, professor of biology, and Marcos Rigol, professor of physics.
Friedman Lecture in Astronomy set for April 9
Randall McEntaffer
Wright named recipient of SETI Institute's 2019 Drake Award
Jason Wright
Extremely accurate measurements of atom states for quantum computing
New method allows extremely accurate measurement of the quantum state of atomic qubits—the basic unit of information in quantum computers. Credit: Weiss Laboratory, Penn State
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