A spat between birds at your backyard bird feeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in the natural world, but some ecologically similar species appear to ...

The Materials Research Institute (MRI) at Penn State has announced the recipients of the 2025 Interdisciplinary Seed Grants and Transdisciplinary Teaming Initiative awards, designed to support ...

The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School recognized three alumni — Jennifer Hoewe, Jonathan U. Dougherty and Gail Folena-Wasserman — with Fox Graduate School Alumni Society Awards at the Fox ...

Robert Morehead, associate teaching professor of astronomy and astrophysics in the Eberly College of Science, has been selected to receive the 2025 Penn State Excellence in Advising Award. The award, ...

Ephraim Hanks, associate professor of statistics in the Eberly College of Science, is the 2025 recipient of the Graduate School Alumni Society Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award. The award honors ...

Five Penn State faculty members were recently named Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) Mentored Faculty Fellows for 2025-26, including Yubai Yuan, assistant professor of statistics. The SSRI ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences at Penn State aims to drive multidisciplinary collaboration utilizing publicly ...

Differences among the DNA of seven ape species — including humans — are greater than originally thought, according to an international team led by researchers at Penn State, the National Human Genome ...

Who can grow the best crops in lunar or Martian soil? That’s what Penn State Scranton’s Associate Professor of Biology and Biology and Science Program Coordinator Megan Van Etten and five students are ...

Shreya Mathela, a chemistry graduate student, and Sohini Saha, also a chemistry graduate student, served as leaders for the Empower conference. Shreya's research focuses on unraveling exciton dynamics ...

Abdulkareem Alshaheeb, Kelle Hart, and Shio Sakon, each received awards at the 2025 Graduate Exhibition, hosted by the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School on Friday, March 28, on the ...

Wen Jiang, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Structural Biology and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, investigates the structures of diverse biological systems using ...