Penn State News

Penn State Athletics has received a $5 million gift from Bob and Sandy Poole toward the West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium Revitalization project.

Andrew Zydney, Bayard D. Kunkle Chair and professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, is part of a team whose project, "Inline Spiking Method for Validation of Virus Clearance in Continuous Bioprocessing," has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the National Institute for Innovation in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Most Impactful Project Award.

New research, led by Penn State physicists, demonstrated that when two orbiting black holes merge, the size of resulting larger black hole can be predicted using simple thermodynamics.

After years of near misses, Penn State’s meteorology team has reclaimed the top spot in WxChallenge, the national collegiate forecasting competition that rewards precision, consistency and a deep understanding of the weather. For the team of students and faculty in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science who spent 20 weeks making daily predictions for cities acr...

According to Hannah Wiseman, professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law, homeowners may be in for a shock when they pay their power bills at the end of this month, and not just because of an uptick in air conditioning to stay cool during a record-breaking heatwave. In the following Q&A, Wiseman discussed why data centers use so much power, whether they fare worse in the...