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Penn State World Campus ranked No. 1 among online institutions for the second straight year in Military Times’ 2026 "Best for Vets: Colleges" rankings, and also took the top spot in Pennsylvania for the third straight year and in the Mid-Atlantic for the first time.

Samples from the Bennu asteroid, which is currently more than 200 million miles from Earth, and Murchison meteorite, which fell to Earth in 1969, both contain molecules that build proteins necessary for life. New research has found that the molecules may have formed through the same process but originated far from one another in the solar system.

Join the Penn State community in honoring those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Hosted by the Student Veterans Organization, the ceremony will begin at 11:11 a.m. in front of the Old Main Steps. The event will be livestreamed for those unable to attend in person.

New method to modify chemical compounds known as sulfonamides, thousands of which exist in the chemical libraries of pharmaceutical companies, could open additional avenues for the development of new drugs.

Critical decisions are increasingly being made by AI systems in high-stakes industries like healthcare, criminal justice and finance. In this Q&A, Jing Tian, assistant professor of information systems at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, discusses her recent study, which proposes a holistic theory of AI fairness while providing an applicable framework that organizat...