Proteins are long molecules that must fold into complex three-dimensional structures to perform their cellular functions. This folding process occasionally goes awry, resulting in misfolded proteins ...

Ryan Henrici, a class of 2015 graduate who majored in biochemistry and molecular biology, is one of eight prominent young alumni who will be honored by the Penn State Alumni Association at the 2025 ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

“I just think that if I am not the one to tell my story, then it won’t be told,” said Nazifa Tabassum, molecular, cellular, and integrative biosciences graduate student, when asked why she decided to ...

Penn State physicist pioneered research that predicted a new class of exotic particles, ‘composite fermions,’ which could be integral to high-performance electronics and quantum computing 10 March ...

Sarah Assmann, Waller Professor of Plant Biology at Penn State, has been awarded the Masatoshi Nei Innovation Prize in Biology. The award was established through a generous gift from Masatoshi Nei, ...

A synthetic microbiome therapy, tested in mice, protects against severe symptoms of a gut infection that is notoriously difficult-to-treat and potentially life threatening in humans, according to a ...

Professor Phair has gone missing. Detective Soto suspects foul play, but she has no eye–witnesses, no suspects, and no leads. How do you solve a crime when you can’t even prove that one has been ...

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 include ...

Evan Pugh University Professor and Erwin W. Müller Professor in Physics and Holder of Eberly Family Chair "Composite-fermion pairing at half-filled and quarter-filled lowest Landau level," Anirban ...

The research of my group at Penn State, as well as in several other collaborations with colleagues elsewhere, circles around different aspects whose common theme is their relevance for formulations of ...