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Biological physicist Réka Albert elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 07, 2025

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Penn State mourns loss of beloved teacher and ecologist Christopher Uhl

May 07, 2025

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Wendy Hanna-Rose awarded with inaugural Karin E. Foley Women’s Leadership Award

May 06, 2025

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Let's give a 'We Are!' to these Penn Staters — May 6

May 06, 2025

Rao Prize Conference set for May 20

May 05, 2025

Carmona appointed Norman and Trygve Freed Early Career Professor in Physics

May 05, 2025

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Schreyer Honors College announces 2025 Student and Faculty Award winners

May 05, 2025

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Top pictures from the 2025 Penn State Today spring photo contest

May 02, 2025

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Penn State alumna Alexa Dembek shares ‘the magical formula for learning’

April 30, 2025

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Nate Carey selected as Eberly College of Science spring 2025 student marshal

April 30, 2025

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Ashtekar Frontiers of Science lecture series celebrates ‘Year of Quantum’

April 29, 2025

The Lion Shrine is crystal clear in the center of the frame as greenery is blurred framing the shrine.

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences issues call for proposals

April 25, 2025

The 17th annual Materials Visualization Competition "Best of Show" award went to “Nano soccer balls from nature” by Jinsol Choi, postdoctoral scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Winners announced for 17th annual Materials Visualization Competition

April 25, 2025

fingers hover over lighted laptop keyboard

Competition shows not all exam questions can be correctly answered using AI

April 25, 2025

Ben Lear and Russell DeForest

Two Penn State faculty honored with 2025 C.I. Noll Award

April 25, 2025

Julio Flores Cuadra and Junyao Yuan

Penn State graduate students receive American Heart Association fellowships

April 25, 2025

Family tree with illustrations of great apes and representative chromosomes showing non-B DNA

Beyond the double helix: Alternative DNA conformations in ape genomes

April 24, 2025

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Q&A: Microscopic robots may shape the future of health, tech and the environment

April 22, 2025

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How do you like them apples? Apple genus evolution revealed

April 22, 2025

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Three Eberly graduate students honored with research and excellence awards

April 21, 2025

Group of three students who won a teaching award

Three Eberly graduate students awarded Outstanding Teaching Award

April 21, 2025

boats on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, DRC

Focus on sanitation and clean water may improve control of endemic cholera

April 18, 2025

Lucy Taylor stands outside the University House wearing a green button-down sweater.

Student Lucy Taylor selected as Liberal Arts college marshal for spring commencement

April 17, 2025

warbler sits in a pine tree

Foraging on the wing: How can ecologically similar birds live together?

April 16, 2025

Composite photo of Luc Schrauf, Elisabeth Groff, Zach Badinger and Megan von Abo

Four Penn State undergraduates earn Goldwater Scholarships

April 15, 2025

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Materials Research Institute announces 2025 seed grant recipients

April 15, 2025

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Three alumni selected for 2025 Fox Graduate School alumni society awards

April 14, 2025

Lion Shrine head on

Astronomy professor, advising coordinator each receive 2025 Excellence in Advising Award

April 14, 2025

Side view of Lion Shrine

Five receive Faculty Scholar Medals

April 14, 2025

Statistics faculty member honored with Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award

April 14, 2025

Close up of an adult bonobo

Complete genome sequences of six ape species unveiled

April 09, 2025

This illustration shows yellow, blue and pink numbers in a data flow.

NCEMS working groups to answer molecular and cellular bioscience questions

April 09, 2025

Professor Meg Van Etten and students work with plants in the campus' bio lab

Penn State Scranton students are ‘planting the moon’ in research challenge

April 09, 2025

'LGBTQ+ in STEM' event set for April 16

April 07, 2025

SSRI Mentored Faculty Fellows for 2025-26

SSRI announces 2025-26 faculty fellows

April 07, 2025

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Thirty-one students receive awards at 2025 Graduate Exhibition

April 04, 2025

Forty-two graduate students recognized with University awards

April 04, 2025

Michael Schweinberger, professor of statistics at Penn State, will present “Causal Learning in the Interconnected and Interdependent World of the Twenty-First Century” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in 201 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

Statistics department to host free public lecture April 17

April 04, 2025

Alumni Achievement Award

Eight honored with Alumni Achievement Award

April 03, 2025

Nikki Crowley speaking at The Village at Penn State

WATCH: Nikki Crowley discusses neuroscience of risk and decision making

April 02, 2025

John W. Oswald Award

Four student leaders named 2025 Oswald Award winners

April 02, 2025

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Registration open for American Statistical Association DataFest 2025

April 02, 2025

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Nanoscience pioneer, Penn State alumnus to present spring 2025 Kohn Lecture

April 02, 2025

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Schreyer Honors College recognizes five outstanding alumni

March 31, 2025

Old Main viewed through Armillary Sphere

Four Penn State faculty elected AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025

Manuel Llinás named a fellow of the AAAS

March 27, 2025

Zhiqiang Mao named a fellow of the AAAS

March 27, 2025

Photograph of Old Main surrounded by summer foliage

Penn State congratulates Fall 2024 Emerging Academic Leaders on program completion

March 26, 2025

Sun streaming through Penn State's Old Main bell tower

Penn State Emeritus Academy welcomes distinguished Spring 2025 inductees

March 26, 2025

A graph shows the visualization of how the Biomedical Data Translator functions. From left to right, the graph shows inputting questions, how the system works to retrieve information from the knowledge bases, and the responses provided.

Translator for biomedical research aims to speed up patient care

March 25, 2025

Image of Outstanding Science Alumni Awards recipients with Mary Beth Williams and Lori Schrider

Eberly College of Science honors six with Outstanding Science Alumni Award

March 24, 2025

Shirley Malcom, senior adviser and director of SEA Change, presented the keynote at the Eberly College's inaugural SeED Conference on March 19, 2025.

Heard on campus: Shirley Malcom, SEA Change senior adviser

March 21, 2025

Jacob Bourjaily presented with prize by Lars Kann-Rasmussen

Penn State physicist honored with international Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize

March 20, 2025

closeup portraits of four smiling adults

Three deans co-host research scholarship and land-grant impacts event March 24

March 19, 2025

The Nittany Lion mascot

Let's give a 'We Are!' to these Penn Staters -- March 18

March 18, 2025

Illustration of antibiotics in the gut

FDA-approved dialysis drug may help fight against antimicrobial resistance

March 18, 2025

Agar face sculpture growing microbes.

BioArtist Mellissa Monsoon to present 'Collaborating with Microbes'

March 17, 2025

three panels of hypothetical planetary system

Combination of cosmic processes shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes

March 17, 2025

Image of the Northern Lights over University Park campus

Public invited to visit Chalsty Planetarium with astronomy department on April 5

March 14, 2025

3D structure of the protein with entanglement on the right and without on the left

Protein accidentally lassos itself, helping explain unusual refolding behavior

March 14, 2025

Human cells connected by tiny tube

Tunnel-building virus: How Zika transmits from mother to fetus

March 14, 2025

Photos of Nazifa and Katie

Graduate students to present their journeys in science

March 13, 2025

Image of Kevin Luhman holding a U.S. stamp with his image from the James Webb Space Telescope

Q&A: The story behind the cosmic image on a new US stamp

March 11, 2025

Jainendra Jain named 2025 Wolf Prize laureate in physics

March 10, 2025

Image of Sarah Assman

Plant biologist awarded the Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology

March 10, 2025

Friedman Lectures in Astronomy and Astrophysics set for April 15, 16

March 06, 2025

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Reka Albert standing outside near trees

Biological physicist Réka Albert elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 07, 2025

Portrait of Christopher Uhl

Penn State mourns loss of beloved teacher and ecologist Christopher Uhl

May 07, 2025

Karin Foley and Wendy Hanna-Rose posing with an award

Wendy Hanna-Rose awarded with inaugural Karin E. Foley Women’s Leadership Award

May 06, 2025

The Nittany Lion mascot

Let's give a 'We Are!' to these Penn Staters — May 6

May 06, 2025

Rao Prize Conference set for May 20

May 05, 2025

Carmona appointed Norman and Trygve Freed Early Career Professor in Physics

May 05, 2025

Schreyer Honors College sign

Schreyer Honors College announces 2025 Student and Faculty Award winners

May 05, 2025

A closeup of a green flower with a blurred Old Main in the background

Top pictures from the 2025 Penn State Today spring photo contest

May 02, 2025

Woman speaking while holding a microphone

Penn State alumna Alexa Dembek shares ‘the magical formula for learning’

April 30, 2025

Portrait of Nate Carey

Nate Carey selected as Eberly College of Science spring 2025 student marshal

April 30, 2025

Person standing in front of a physics experiment during the Ashtekar Frontiers of Science lecture

Ashtekar Frontiers of Science lecture series celebrates ‘Year of Quantum’

April 29, 2025

The Lion Shrine is crystal clear in the center of the frame as greenery is blurred framing the shrine.

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences issues call for proposals

April 25, 2025

The 17th annual Materials Visualization Competition "Best of Show" award went to “Nano soccer balls from nature” by Jinsol Choi, postdoctoral scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Winners announced for 17th annual Materials Visualization Competition

April 25, 2025

fingers hover over lighted laptop keyboard

Competition shows not all exam questions can be correctly answered using AI

April 25, 2025

Ben Lear and Russell DeForest

Two Penn State faculty honored with 2025 C.I. Noll Award

April 25, 2025

Julio Flores Cuadra and Junyao Yuan

Penn State graduate students receive American Heart Association fellowships

April 25, 2025

Family tree with illustrations of great apes and representative chromosomes showing non-B DNA

Beyond the double helix: Alternative DNA conformations in ape genomes

April 24, 2025

A team of researchers looking at a graphic on a screen

Q&A: Microscopic robots may shape the future of health, tech and the environment

April 22, 2025

Two rows of different apples

How do you like them apples? Apple genus evolution revealed

April 22, 2025

Image collage of students who won different research and excellence awards

Three Eberly graduate students honored with research and excellence awards

April 21, 2025

Group of three students who won a teaching award

Three Eberly graduate students awarded Outstanding Teaching Award

April 21, 2025

boats on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, DRC

Focus on sanitation and clean water may improve control of endemic cholera

April 18, 2025

Lucy Taylor stands outside the University House wearing a green button-down sweater.

Student Lucy Taylor selected as Liberal Arts college marshal for spring commencement

April 17, 2025

warbler sits in a pine tree

Foraging on the wing: How can ecologically similar birds live together?

April 16, 2025

Composite photo of Luc Schrauf, Elisabeth Groff, Zach Badinger and Megan von Abo

Four Penn State undergraduates earn Goldwater Scholarships

April 15, 2025

A person working in a clean room lab

Materials Research Institute announces 2025 seed grant recipients

April 15, 2025

headshots of three alumni award recipients

Three alumni selected for 2025 Fox Graduate School alumni society awards

April 14, 2025

Lion Shrine head on

Astronomy professor, advising coordinator each receive 2025 Excellence in Advising Award

April 14, 2025

Side view of Lion Shrine

Five receive Faculty Scholar Medals

April 14, 2025

Statistics faculty member honored with Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award

April 14, 2025

Close up of an adult bonobo

Complete genome sequences of six ape species unveiled

April 09, 2025

This illustration shows yellow, blue and pink numbers in a data flow.

NCEMS working groups to answer molecular and cellular bioscience questions

April 09, 2025

Professor Meg Van Etten and students work with plants in the campus' bio lab

Penn State Scranton students are ‘planting the moon’ in research challenge

April 09, 2025

'LGBTQ+ in STEM' event set for April 16

April 07, 2025

SSRI Mentored Faculty Fellows for 2025-26

SSRI announces 2025-26 faculty fellows

April 07, 2025

man pointing to artwork on wall while a woman watches

Thirty-one students receive awards at 2025 Graduate Exhibition

April 04, 2025

Forty-two graduate students recognized with University awards

April 04, 2025

Michael Schweinberger, professor of statistics at Penn State, will present “Causal Learning in the Interconnected and Interdependent World of the Twenty-First Century” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in 201 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

Statistics department to host free public lecture April 17

April 04, 2025

Alumni Achievement Award

Eight honored with Alumni Achievement Award

April 03, 2025

Nikki Crowley speaking at The Village at Penn State

WATCH: Nikki Crowley discusses neuroscience of risk and decision making

April 02, 2025

John W. Oswald Award

Four student leaders named 2025 Oswald Award winners

April 02, 2025

Graphic advertising datafest

Registration open for American Statistical Association DataFest 2025

April 02, 2025

Person in a suit

Nanoscience pioneer, Penn State alumnus to present spring 2025 Kohn Lecture

April 02, 2025

Schreyer Honors College sign in the spring

Schreyer Honors College recognizes five outstanding alumni

March 31, 2025

Old Main viewed through Armillary Sphere

Four Penn State faculty elected AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025

Manuel Llinás named a fellow of the AAAS

March 27, 2025

Zhiqiang Mao named a fellow of the AAAS

March 27, 2025

Photograph of Old Main surrounded by summer foliage

Penn State congratulates Fall 2024 Emerging Academic Leaders on program completion

March 26, 2025

Sun streaming through Penn State's Old Main bell tower

Penn State Emeritus Academy welcomes distinguished Spring 2025 inductees

March 26, 2025

A graph shows the visualization of how the Biomedical Data Translator functions. From left to right, the graph shows inputting questions, how the system works to retrieve information from the knowledge bases, and the responses provided.

Translator for biomedical research aims to speed up patient care

March 25, 2025

Image of Outstanding Science Alumni Awards recipients with Mary Beth Williams and Lori Schrider

Eberly College of Science honors six with Outstanding Science Alumni Award

March 24, 2025

Shirley Malcom, senior adviser and director of SEA Change, presented the keynote at the Eberly College's inaugural SeED Conference on March 19, 2025.

Heard on campus: Shirley Malcom, SEA Change senior adviser

March 21, 2025

Jacob Bourjaily presented with prize by Lars Kann-Rasmussen

Penn State physicist honored with international Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize

March 20, 2025

closeup portraits of four smiling adults

Three deans co-host research scholarship and land-grant impacts event March 24

March 19, 2025

The Nittany Lion mascot

Let's give a 'We Are!' to these Penn Staters -- March 18

March 18, 2025

Illustration of antibiotics in the gut

FDA-approved dialysis drug may help fight against antimicrobial resistance

March 18, 2025

Agar face sculpture growing microbes.

BioArtist Mellissa Monsoon to present 'Collaborating with Microbes'

March 17, 2025

three panels of hypothetical planetary system

Combination of cosmic processes shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes

March 17, 2025

Image of the Northern Lights over University Park campus

Public invited to visit Chalsty Planetarium with astronomy department on April 5

March 14, 2025

3D structure of the protein with entanglement on the right and without on the left

Protein accidentally lassos itself, helping explain unusual refolding behavior

March 14, 2025

Human cells connected by tiny tube

Tunnel-building virus: How Zika transmits from mother to fetus

March 14, 2025

Photos of Nazifa and Katie

Graduate students to present their journeys in science

March 13, 2025

Image of Kevin Luhman holding a U.S. stamp with his image from the James Webb Space Telescope

Q&A: The story behind the cosmic image on a new US stamp

March 11, 2025

Jainendra Jain named 2025 Wolf Prize laureate in physics

March 10, 2025

Image of Sarah Assman

Plant biologist awarded the Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology

March 10, 2025

Friedman Lectures in Astronomy and Astrophysics set for April 15, 16

March 06, 2025

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