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Over one million distant galaxies, half a million nearby star-forming galaxies, 18,000 supermassive blackholes and over ...
09/04/2026

Over one million distant galaxies, half a million nearby star-forming galaxies, 18,000 supermassive blackholes and over 150,000 stars. 🌌⭐️

That's what makes up part of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment, one of the largest surveys ever taken of the early universe, which involves multiple Penn State researchers.

Now this raw and processed data has been released to the public.

Read about this project at https://bit.ly/4y0BdPD

Earlier this year, the recipients of the 2025 Wolf Prize, including Jainendra Jain, Evan Pugh University Professor, Eber...
09/03/2026

Earlier this year, the recipients of the 2025 Wolf Prize, including Jainendra Jain, Evan Pugh University Professor, Eberly Family Chair in Physics, and director of the Penn State Center for Theory of Emergent Quantum Matter, were recognized by the Wolf Foundation with a special ceremony.

Jain was also recently recognized by the Penn State Alumni Association with the 2026 Honorary Alumni Award this summer.

Read more about him at https://bit.ly/4wUZtC1



📸: Wolf Prize

Penn State's Anatomy in Italy course offers a mix of biology and history, which combines students’ interests in medicine...
09/02/2026

Penn State's Anatomy in Italy course offers a mix of biology and history, which combines students’ interests in medicine and Italian culture and challenges them to rethink what it means to study anatomy and the human body. 🇮🇹

A few Eberly students, including Veronica Swartz, who graduated in May with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology, and Luscinia Quance, a biology student, took this course over spring break this year.

Read about this program and the students' experience at https://bit.ly/4wUtx0v

Another NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration telescope joined the Hubble Space Telescope and the James W...
09/01/2026

Another NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration telescope joined the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope in space to scan the vastness of space and potentially finding answers to longstanding mysteries of the universe. 🔭

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope can detect visible and infrared light and what makes it stand out is it's designed for wide-field imaging, so it can survey the sky much faster.

Read a Q&A with Chris Palma, teaching professor of astronomy and astrophysics, about this new telescope at https://bit.ly/4gDGndt.

https://bit.ly/4gDGndt

In case you missed it, Penn State Football's game themes dropped. From Homecoming to the White Out, you can get the righ...
08/31/2026

In case you missed it, Penn State Football's game themes dropped. From Homecoming to the White Out, you can get the right Eberly gear to be part of your game day fit.

Our fall collection is live until Sept. 2, so be sure to grab your limited-edition merch now!

Shop here: https://bit.ly/EberlyPopUpShop

Thirty years of advancements in plant development inspired Hong Ma, professor of biology and J. Lloyd Huck and Dorothy F...
08/31/2026

Thirty years of advancements in plant development inspired Hong Ma, professor of biology and J. Lloyd Huck and Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Plant Reproductive Development and Evolution, to co-edit a new book — Regulation of Plant Development. 🌱

Since the last book published on this topic was 1994, Ma felt that an updated version was necessary to include more recent progress, from the late 1990s to the mid 2020s.

Read more at https://bit.ly/4xiYYTo

Shout out to Mindy Vail, financial associate, for receiving multiple nominations for a "We Are!" feature!One of her nomi...
08/29/2026

Shout out to Mindy Vail, financial associate, for receiving multiple nominations for a "We Are!" feature!

One of her nominators wrote: "Mindy consistently went above and beyond to support both initiators and financial hubs during the finance transition. She navigated challenges with grace, collaboration and an unwavering commitment to finding workable solutions.”

Read about her and other "We Are!" recipients at https://bit.ly/4hQkmul

Stress can cause you to feel dizzy and even experience headaches or an elevated heart rate. Over time, the body can accl...
08/28/2026

Stress can cause you to feel dizzy and even experience headaches or an elevated heart rate. Over time, the body can acclimate to the stress, eventually changing an individual’s baseline brain state. 🧠

Grayson Sipe, assistant professor of biology, received a $2 million grant to improve understanding of the changes in the brain and body during acclimation to stress.

"We’re interested in why some people respond better to stress than others. Improving our understanding of how the body acclimates to stress — and how and why that might differ among individuals — might also eventually have implications for personalized medicine," said Sipe.

Read about this grant at https://bit.ly/4zx9TtQ

Every year, the Grange Fair brings the Centre County community one last piece of summer fun before school begins. 🎡Since...
08/27/2026

Every year, the Grange Fair brings the Centre County community one last piece of summer fun before school begins. 🎡

Since 2015, the Eberly College of Science's Office of Science Outreach has brought its event, Fun with Science, to the fair, with the goal of sharing science with the Centre County community.

They will be back on Friday, Aug. 28 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Rec Building with activities including mixing slime, making bracelets with UV beads, and using a solar telescope.

Read more about this event and its history at https://bit.ly/4gmt16r

Results from Penn State Today's 2026 summer photo contest. 🌅Claire Thomas, emerita associate professor of biology and of...
08/26/2026

Results from Penn State Today's 2026 summer photo contest. 🌅

Claire Thomas, emerita associate professor of biology and of biochemistry and molecular biology, submitted the winning photo of the Old Main bell tower at sunset.

View the top submissions at https://bit.ly/4inap7H

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