Jain was named the 2025 winner alongside fellow physicists Mordehai “Moty” Heiblum, who “pioneered experimental verification of these exotic particles,” and James Eisenstein, who “co-discovered the ...

In order to help achieve this part of our mission, our office has created the online Broader Impacts Resource Center (BIRC) to better assist faculty in learning about their outreach options and ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps. For Kevin Luhman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, ...

Sarah Assmann, Waller Professor of Plant Biology at Penn State, has been awarded the Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology. The award was established through a generous gift from Masatoshi Nei, ...

A synthetic microbiome therapy, tested in mice, protects against severe symptoms of a gut infection that is notoriously difficult-to-treat and potentially life threatening in humans, according to a ...

Professor Phair has gone missing. Detective Soto suspects foul play, but she has no eye–witnesses, no suspects, and no leads. How do you solve a crime when you can’t even prove that one has been ...

The Cada R. and Susan Wynn Grove Center for Excellence in Science Education will host its spring seminar on March 26 and 27 on the Penn State University Park campus. The two-day event will feature a ...

Research in the Zhu lab focuses on the exploration of fundamental and novel electronic properties of low-dimensional materials and nanostructures. Our current research interests include ...

Evan Pugh University Professor and Erwin W. Müller Professor in Physics and Holder of Eberly Family Chair "Composite-fermion pairing at half-filled and quarter-filled lowest Landau level," Anirban ...

I began my career in science as an undergraduate studying physics and mathematics at the University of Michigan. Upon graduation, I took up a Marshall Scholarship to pursue a degree in Mathematics at ...

Elsbach Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1987). M.Sc ...

The research of my group at Penn State, as well as in several other collaborations with colleagues elsewhere, circles around different aspects whose common theme is their relevance for formulations of ...