Gail McCormick

December 12, 2025 By Gail McCormick UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. — “Most of the sky has not been formally searched for extraterrestrial intelligence,” said Adam Frank, Helen F. and Fred H.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Jainendra 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, has been selected as the founding director of the Lodha Theoretical Physics Institute (LTPI), established by the Lodha Foundation , a leading philanthropic organization in India.

Over the last seven years, undergraduate students have helped develop the Book of Apps for Statistics Teaching, or BOAST, which functions much like an interactive statistics textbook and has grown to span twelve chapters ranging from introductory topics to advance statistical course material.

In Penn State's Eberly College of Science, researchers are leveraging AI in a myriad of applications and instructors are finding innovative ways to incorporate AI into their classrooms. But what is artificial intelligence, and are people really talking about the same thing when they say AI?

By Gail McCormick UNIVERSIT PARK, Pa. — Melanie McReynolds, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J.

By Gail McCormick UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Buried within the Antarctic ice are more than 5,000 light sensors that work together to detect some of the highest energy particles in the universe.

Nitin Samarth, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for distinguished contributions to the physical sciences.

Runze Li, holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics, has been named an Evan Pugh Professor, the highest honor that Penn State bestows on a faculty member.

By Gail McCormick UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Experiencing a traumatic event sometimes produces long-lasting biological changes that can lead to

By Gail McCormick UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Students visiting Penn State for its Physics Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program