Eberly College of Science

Click here for information about the encore performance of the 2008 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science.

Reports About
the Swift Observatory

Latest News:

• Superbright Explosion is Most Distant Object Ever Visible to the Naked Eye (20 March 2007)

• Intergalactic "Shot in the Dark" Shocks Astronomers (18 December 2007)

Swift Online Newsletter

Reports about the Swift Launch

Archive of Swift News

Gallery of recent audio and video features about science at Penn State

Listen to a podcast of Abhay Ashtekar discussing time's beginning and end in his Research Unplugged lecture. (March 2008)

Watch a 3-D animation depicting the LSST with optical and structural designs. (January 2008)

Watch two videos showing ethanol-induced intermale courtship in fruit flies. (January 2008)

Penn State's Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics featured on the DNA Files radio program (December 2007)

Take a Google-Earth video tour of the Pierre Auger Observatory. (November 2007)

Listen to Penn State astronomer Derek Fox speaking on BBC Radio Five Live about his discovery of the possible closest neutron star to earth. (August 2007)

Watch biochemist Donald Bryant and his colleagues discuss the significance of their discovery at Yellowstone National Park in a National Science Foundation video. (July 2007)

Watch a documentary about Nina Fedoroff, C. R. Rao, and Irwin Mueller, Eberly College of Science faculty members who have received the National Medal of Science. (July 2007)

Listen to what some alumni, students, and faculty have to say about the Eberly College of Science in this video produced by Penn State Public Broadcasting (click here).
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News About the Eberly College of Science

May 2008

Scientists Identify Key Roadblock to Gene Expression (7 May 2008)

Global Warming Linked to Caribou-Calf Mortality (1 May 2008)

Eberly College of Science Student Marshals Chosen (1 May 2008)

April 2008

Marker Lectures in Genetic Engineering Scheduled for 28 and 29 April (22 April 2008)

Public Invited to Center for Gravitational Wave Physics Exhibition and Reception on 25 April (18 April 2008)

Penn State's Nina V. Fedoroff, Science Advisor to the U. S. Secretary of State and Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Gives a Free Public Talk on 25 April (17 April 2008)

Richard Zare to Present Whitmore Lecture on 24 April (17 April 2008)

Externship Program Gives Students Taste of Careers in Science (16 April 2008)

Panel of Experts to Discuss Strategies for Our Energy Future on 26 April (15 April 2008)

Research on Ancestral Plants Featured in Research | Penn State (9 April 2008)

Probing Question: What are Shooting Stars? (9 April 2008)

Pollard Lecture to be Held on 14 April (7 April 2008)

Enzyme Complex Could be Key to New Cancer Treatments (3 April 2008)

Gypsy Moth Management Made More Efficient, Cost-Effective (2 April 2008)

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