Our Mission: The BMMB Climate and Diversity Committee strives to foster an inclusive community within the department, where everyone is given respect. We acknowledge the adversities faced ...

Randy McEntaffer, head of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, presents during a planetarium show at the Liberty Science Center's Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium, in Jersey City, New Jersey, on ...

Program Summary The Eberly College of Science is committed to supporting our researchers in translating their research for society. Translation is an early part of technology transfer where scientific ...

Education: Princeton University (PhD, Physics), 2011 Cambridge University (MaSt, Maths), 2006 University of Michigan (BS, Physics & Mathematics), 2005 Research Funding and Grants: Starting Grant, the ...

Research Interests 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 ...

Honors and Awards Wolf Prize in Physics, 2025 (Citation: For advancing our understanding of the surprising properties of two-dimensional electron systems in strong magnetic fields. Professors ...

Honors and Awards First Gravity prize in the annual international competition, awarded by the Gravity Research Foundation, Massachusetts, 1977. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1981-1985. Chancellor's ...

Education Ph.D. in Physics, Tsinghua U. (China), 2013 B.S. in Optical Engineering, Shandong U. (China), 2007 Biography Professor, Penn State, 2024 – present Associate Professor, Penn State, 2022 - ...

The lecture series was founded by Abhay Ashtekar, founding director of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. It owes its success to Barbara ...

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density “super-puff” planets has at least one more planet, according to new research led by researchers from Penn State and Osaka University. The ...

A new technique allows astronomers to home in on planets beyond our solar system that are in line with each other and with Earth to search for radio signals similar, for example, to ones used to ...

When stars collapse, they can leave behind incredibly dense but relatively small and cold remnants called neutron stars. If two stars collapse in close proximity, the leftover binary neutron stars ...