Manuel Llinás, Ernest C. Pollard Professor in Biotechnology, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and of chemistry, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement ...

A team led by researchers at Penn State is working to accelerate drug discovery, with the potential to treat rare diseases, by improving the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Biomedical Data ...

Zhiqiang Mao, professor of physics, materials science and engineering, and of chemistry, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State. The research ...

Nick Payne, a mathematics graduate student, studies hyperbolic conservation laws. He also serves as an Eberly delegate and member of the Advocacy and Diversity Committee for the Graduate and ...

The Penn State Eberly College of Science has selected six alumni to be honored with the Outstanding Science Alumni Award for 2025. The board of directors of the Eberly College of Science Alumni ...

Penn State ranked 76th for biological sciences in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject, rising from 85th in 2024 and placing the University in the top 10% worldwide. “I am really pleased ...

Increased antibiotic use can lead, seemingly paradoxically, to more problematic infections, as the bacteria evolve to resist the treatment. The answer to this antimicrobial resistance, which the ...

In 2015, an outbreak of Zika virus triggered an epidemic in the Americas. People infected with Zika, typically via a mosquito bite, may have mild symptoms, but if the person is pregnant, it can lead ...

“Within our country, within our institutions, within Penn State there are stories of hidden figures. … Every field has hidden figures they have lost to history. They have stories that need to be held ...

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Penn State physicist pioneered research that predicted a new class of exotic particles, ‘composite fermions,’ which could be integral to high-performance electronics and quantum computing 10 March ...