Undergraduate Research Fair puts innovation and creativity on full display
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Undergraduate students showcased original research and creative scholarship during Penn State Scranton's annual Undergraduate Research Fair and Exhibition, which highlights student work across various academic disciplines and creative fields.
Penn State Harrisburg to host Research and Discovery Day on April 22
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The Office of Research and Outreach at Penn State Harrisburg will host the annual Research and Discovery Day on Wednesday, April 22.
Penn State Engineering climbs to No. 28 in US News rankings of best grad schools
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Penn State's College of Engineering ranked No. 28 — rising three places from last year — for overall national engineering graduate programs in U.S. News & World Report's recently released 2026 "Best Graduate Schools" ranking. The college ranks No. 14 in the nation among public university programs, and it remains the No. 1 public university program in Pennsylvania.
April 22 talk: Using voluntary controls to reduce peak electricity demand
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Christina McGranaghan, an assistant professor of applied economics at the University of Delaware, will give the talk, “Taking a Load Off: Experimental Evidence of Preferences for Control with an Application to Residential Electricity Demand,” at noon on Wednesday, April 22.
Unlocking unusual superconductivity in a lightweight element
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New research led by Penn State researchers has demonstrated that superconductivity can be maintained in magnetic fields stronger than the usual limit by sandwiching atomically thin films of a lightweight element called gallium between two other materials to engineer quantum interactions at the interfaces between the layers.
Pennsylvania DEP secretary to deliver keynote at Climate Solutions Symposium
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Jessica Shirley will deliver the keynote address May 20 at the 2026 Penn State Climate Solutions Symposium, where she will outline priorities for building a more resilient Pennsylvania.
Registration is now open for inaugural Penn State Research Ethics Conference
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The Penn State community is invited to register for the inaugural Research Ethics Conference, to be held on Sept. 10. The one-day event is open to faculty, students, staff and postdoctoral scholars interested in exploring how research ethics shape the quality, credibility and impact of scholarly work across disciplines.
Ezgi Toraman named rising star in chemical engineering
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Hilal Ezgi Toraman, assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering and of chemical engineering at Penn State, is one of five faculty to be recognized as a rising star in chemical engineering by the journal ACS Engineering Au for her work developing fundamental research on the utilization of pyrolysis — a chemical recycling process that heats plastic waste in an oxygen-free environment to turn it into valuable fuels, chemicals and new plastic feedstock.
Six seed funding opportunities to support Commonwealth Campus faculty research
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Faculty at Penn State’s Commonwealth Campuses are invited to apply for six seed funding programs designed to support research, foster collaboration and advance projects across campuses. Offered through the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses, the programs support a range of priorities, including early-stage and mid-career research and professional development, mentorship, community impact, industry partnerships and undergraduate research engagement.
April 15 talk: Effect of renewable diesel on air quality
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Gabriel Lade, an associate professor and C. William Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy at Ohio State University, will give the talk, “Does Renewable Diesel Clean the Air? Evidence from California Highways,” at noon on Wednesday, April 15, in 157 Hosler Building on Penn State's University Park campus. The talk is free and open to the public.
EMS faculty member co-chairs critical minerals session to foster US-Africa link
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Nelson Dzade, assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering and chair of the undergraduate energy engineering program, recently co-chaired the critical minerals and materials session at the annual National Academies U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium, held this past February in Dakar, Senegal.
Four Penn State faculty members elected AAAS Fellows
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Four Penn State faculty members in the biological sciences, engineering and statistics have been elected to the latest cohort of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.