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Ken Knappenberger named 2026 Optica Fellow

Ken Knappenberger, department head and professor of…

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IRG 2 gets cover on Advanced Science

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MRSEC RET 2nd author on recent JACS paper

Laurie Lazinski teaches science in Northville, NY and has…

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Undergraduate materials science and engineering students and lab members pose for a photo in the lab with two of their faculty mentors. From left to right, students Dhiya Srikanth, Joseph Petruska and Matthew Furst; the Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science Jon-Paul Maria; Saeed Almishal, research professor of materials science and engineering; and student Kaylin Lamaute. Credit: David Kubarek/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.
MRSEC undergrads play significant role in Nat. Comm. paper

With the help of a team of undergraduate students who…

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Lee Kump (left), the John Leone Dean in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and Jon-Paul Maria, professor of materials science and engineering, at the Wilson Awards.
Jon-Paul Maria awarded Paul F. Robertson Award for EMS Breakthrough of the Year

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral…

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Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari received the 2025 Intercollege Graduate Student Outreach Achievement Award

Intercollege Graduate Student Outreach Achievement Award…

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