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

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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — By combining forefront X-ray observations with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the buildup of galaxies over cosmic history, researchers have provided the best ...

The chemistry graduate program at Penn State is designed to give students an educational experience unlike any other. Our leading research program gives students the chance to explore and innovate ...

The sunflower family tree revealed that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, among the members of this large plant family, according to a new ...