Marsh White, in 1926, earned the first ever doctoral degree from Penn State – a physics degree. After graduating from Penn ...

Jun Ye, professor of physics and JILA Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, will present the 2026 Russell E. Marker Lectures in Physics on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 on the Penn State University Park ...

The Eberly College of Science welcomes its newest tenure-line faculty members in the departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Statistics. Marta Bryan, assistant ...

Toan T. Nguyen, professor of mathematics at Penn State, has been named a Simons Fellows in Mathematics by the Simons Foundation Mathematics & Physical Sciences division. Fellows receive funding to ...

The student must be majoring in Statistics, Data Science (statistical modeling, computational or applied), be an IUG student with a B.S. in mathematics and a Master’s in Applied Statistics, or have a ...

“I am excited to help establish LTPI as a world-class center, with internationally competitive faculty, exceptional postdoctoral researchers and a vibrant visitors’ program — an environment designed ...

The deadline to submit your Science Scholarship Application is Monday, February 9, 2026 at 11:58pm ET. Application is now open. The 2026 Gardner Family Scholarship provides up to full tuition and room ...

The Department of Physics welcomes its newest tenure-line faculty members. Thomas Iadecola, associate professor of physics, is a co-hire of the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences ...

"Composite-fermion pairing at half-filled and quarter-filled lowest Landau level," Anirban Sharma, A.C. Balram, and J.K. Jain, Phys. Rev. B 109, 035306 (2024). "In a twist, composite fermions form and ...

The Penn State Eberly College of Science community honors the life and groundbreaking career of Christine Williams Ayoub, professor emerita of mathematics, who passed away last year at the age of 102.

Biotechnology Mini Summer School is an opportunity for high school students who are fascinated by DNA and biotechnology and are interested in learning more about cutting-edge research in ...

Many materials store information about what has happened to them in a sort of material memory, like wrinkles on a once crumpled piece of paper. Now, a team led by Penn State physicists has uncovered ...