Physical Sciences

Jeong honored with Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Association of Korean Physicists in America
Donghui Jeong
Penn State Science Students Selected to Study at CERN
Stephanie Brown, left, and Melissa Quinnan, right, were selected to participate in the University of Michigan's CERN Summer REU.
Research in Action: NSF Grant Helps to Further the Search for Earthlike Exoplanets
Jason Wright, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics, is the principal investigator on the grant.
Albert honored with title of Distinguished Professor
Reka Albert
Maroncelli honored with title of Distinguished Professor
Mark Maroncelli
New science from Einstein's greatest discovery is the theme of the 2015 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science logo
$15 million research grant awarded to Penn State Center for Nanoscience
Image captions from upper left, clockwise: 1) A high-performance ferroelectric material that may find application in future low-loss, high-frequency cellular networks. 2) Time-lapse image of the collective expansion of a swarm of self-propelled nanomotors. 3) Newly discovered roto-distortion symmetry of an oxide lattice. 4) A porous nanostructure of semiconducting germanium (orange) infiltrated into a lattice of nanoscale silica spheres (purple). Image: Penn State University
Huge New Astronomy Database Now Available to the Public
Click on the image for a high-resolution version. A still photo from an animated flythrough of the universe using SDSS data. This image shows our Milky Way Galaxy. The galaxy shape is an artist's conception, and each of the small white dots is one of the hundreds of thousands of stars as seen by the SDSS. Image credits: Dana Berry / SkyWorks Digital, Inc. and Jonathan Bird (Vanderbilt University)
Acoustic tweezers manipulate cell-to-cell contact
Series of micrographs showing cells touching and oriented in straight lines, clumps or triangles. Credit: Tonly Jun Huang/Penn State
Gilliland is Part of Team that Wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Ronald Gilliland
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