Spring 2006 Table of Contents
Science Journal, volume 24
In this Issue:
Message from the Dean
Feature Story
- Revealing the Secrets of the Genome by Ross Hardison (printer-friendly PDF available here)
Research Rundown
- Unified Physics Theory Explains Running, Flying, Swimming
- Scientists Sequence DNA of Woolly Mammoth
- Scientists Find Possible Birth of Tiniest Known Solar System (with audio feature)
- Sky Survey Detects Cosmic Magnification
- New Microprinting Technique Improves Nanoscale Fabrication (with audio feature)
- Genealogy of Scaly Reptiles Rewritten by New Research
- New Sculpture Looks Beyond Three Dimensions (with video feature)
- Brain Scientists Offer Insight Into Vision
- Computer Method Identifies Potentially Active Enzymes
- South African Telescope, Patterned After Hobby-Eberly Telescope, Sees First Light
- Bright Young Stars Mix it Up: Chandra Image Released by Team Led by Penn State Researcher
- Novel Technique Offers New Look at Ancient Diets
- A First: Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below the Surface of a Palladium Crystal (with video feature)
- Scientists Narrow the Time Limit for the Human and Chimpanzee Split
- Scientists Discover How to Flip a Molecular Switch
- New Material Could Improve Fabrication of Nanoscale Components
- Short Flash from Enormous Explosion Solves Cosmic Mystery (with video feature)
- Cosmic Explosion Could Be Black Hole Swallowing Neutron Star (with video feature)
- Scientists Use X-Rays to Measure How Deep "Deep Impact" Was
- NASA Swift Satellite Offers a Different View of the Great Comet Collision
- NASA Satellite Operated by Penn State Detects Most Distant Explosion (with video feature)
- Scientists Watch New Baby Black Holes (with video feature)
- Swift Satellite Hailed as "Best of What's New" in Popular Science Magazine
Penn State: The Next Generation
- A History of Penn State Chemistry
- Penn State Astrophysics Major Chosen as Marshall Scholar
- A Swift Kick to the Career Path
- Four Students Win Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
Honoris Causa
- Xu Receives Humboldt Award
- Mahan Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Meszaros Named Holder of Eberly Family Chair in Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Keating Receives Beckman Award, CAREER Award, and Unilever Award
- Green Receives Beckman Award
- Ashtekar Receives Honorary Doctorate in Germany
- Belmonte Receives Gerorge W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Cosgrove Elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Grenfell Appointed Alumni Professor in the Biological Sciences
- Hardison Named T. Ming Chu Professor
- 2005 Rao Prize Awarded to Jayaram Sethuraman
- Penn State Chemists Seek to Enhance Lab Experience for Visually Impaired Students
New Faculty
- Mitchell Holland
- Edward C. Holmes
- Randen Patterson
- Stephan Schuster
- Robert C. Shaler
- Matthew D. Whim
Alumni & Philanthropy News
- Office of Alumni Relations and Development Welcomes New Director
- Anonymous Donor Gives $250,000
- Wielands Give $150,000 to Create Scholarship
- Pelicks Give $500,000 to Support Chemistry Building
- Young Alumni Create Trustee Matching Scholarships
- Millennium Society Acknowledges Its Members at Reception
- Alumni Fellow Award
- Distinguished Service Award
- Outstanding Science Alumni Award
- C. I. Noll Award
- Distinguished Alumni Award
- Students Mentored at 2005 Careers in Science
