Each semester, staff across Penn State's colleges pull off what seems like an impossible task: Host the perfect ceremony to cap off every student's journey toward a degree. But commencement ceremonies ...

Hundreds of students participated in the 2025 Undergraduate Exhibition, both online from April 14-16 and in person at the HUB-Robeson Center at Penn State University Park, on April 16. The annual ...

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

Two months after Jainendra K. Jain, Evan Pugh University Professor and Erwin W. Müller Professor of Physics and holder of the Eberly Family Chair in the Penn State Eberly College of Science, received ...

Public Lecture Series Video Archive Our faculty and students work on statistical methodology, a subject that spans mathematics, philosophy, and computing, and impacts many areas of science, ...

Shabnam Akhtari, professor of mathematics, is interested in number theory, an old branch of mathematics that is focused on the study of numbers, particularly integers or whole numbers. She uses ...

We present simple randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's inequality, as well as the related Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities (like Hoeffding's and Bernstein's), for example. Our ...

I have received AP Credit for MATH 140 (I have received either a grade of 4 or 5 on the AB exam or a grade of 3 on the BC exam). Should I take MATH 140 or should I take MATH 141? Answer the questions ...

Learning Assistants (LAs) are integral to the Department of Physics' commitment to excellence in undergraduate education. Serving as peer educators, LAs collaborate with faculty to facilitate active ...

John Panitz with a variety of lab equipment in his museum. In 1955, the late Erwin Müller, Evan Pugh Research Professor of Physics, became the first person to “see” an atom, using a Field Ion ...

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. For Kevin Luhman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, ...