Spring 2008 Table of Contents
Science Journal, volume 27
In this Issue:
Message from the Dean
Feature Story
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Nanoscale Motors by Thomas E. Mallouk and Ayusman Sen
(Printer-friendly PDF download available here)
Research Rundown
- Flying Lemurs are the Closest Relatives of Primates
- Discovery May Help Defang Viruses
- Hair Untangles Woolly Mammoth Puzzle
- Surprising New Species of Light-Harvesting Bacterium Discovered in Yellowstone (with video feature)
- Biocapture Surfaces Produced for Study of Brain Chemistry
- Discovery Links Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Violent Black Holes (with video feature)
- Why Do So Many Species Live in Tropical Forests and Coral Reefs?
- To Fight Disease, Animals, Like Plants, Can Tolerate Parasites
- Bee Researchers Close in on Colony Collapse Disorder
- What Happened Before the Big Bang?
- Planet Orbiting a Giant Red Star Discovered with Hobby-Eberly Telescope
- How to Rip and Tear a Fluid
- Reconstructing the Biology of Extinct Species: A New Approach
- Caribbean Frogs Started with a Single, Ancient Voyage on a Raft from South America
- Neutron Stars Join the Black-Hole Jet Set
- Dominant Cholesterol-Metabolism Ideas Challenged by New Research
- Daily Alcohol Use Causes Changes in Sexual Behavior, New Study Reveals
- Hundreds of Missing Black Holes Found
- Penn State, Rutgers Astronomy Teams Discover Ancestors of Galaxies Like the Milky Way
- New Software Advances Photo Search and Management in Online Systems
- Gamma-Ray Bursts Active Longer than Previously Thought
- Possible Closest Neutron Star to Earth Found (with audio feature)
- Intergalactic “Shot in the Dark” Shocks Astronomers
Honoris Causa
- Fedoroff Receives National Medal of Science
- Fedoroff Named Science Advisor to Secretary of State and Administrator of Federal Agency
- Wolszczan Honored at Extreme Solar Systems Conference
- Bojowald Awarded Xanthopoulos Prize
- Li and Roiban Receive Sloan Foundation Fellowships
- Andrews Selected as Finalist for Cherry Award
- Krebs Receives Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
- Papikian Receives Humboldt Fellowship
- Lee Receives Dreyfus New Faculty Award
- Castleman Receives Thomas W. Phelan Fellows Award
- Pugh Named Willaman Professor in Molecular Biology
- Li Elected Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Charles Fisher Receives Conservation Award from Department of the Interior
- C.R. Rao Honored in India and Receives Honorary Doctoral Degrees
- Harkness Awarded Carver Medal
- Xu Named Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
- Postle Elected Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology
- Richards Named Shapley Lecturer by American Astronomical Society
New Faculty
- Iliana Baums
- Victoria Braithwaite
- Kirsten Eisentraeger
- Debashis Ghosh
- Lasse Jensen
- Vadim Kaloshin
- Tracy Langkilde
- Tae-Hee Lee
- William G. Noid
- Mihran Papikian
- Mary Poss
- Andrew F. Read
- Timothy Reluga
- Melissa Rolls
- Raymond E. Schaak
- Beth Shapiro
- Krzysztof Wysocki
- Zhibiao Zhao
Alumni and Philanthropy News
- New York Artist's Work Adorns New Chemistry Building
- Distinguished Graduate Fellowships Created to Further Support Science
- College Holds Annual Eberly Family Distinguished Lecture in Science and Spring Recognition Event
- Connecticut's All-Weather Fans
- Harry Allcock Honored by Scopelianos Graduate Student Endowment
- Alumni Society Board of DIrectors: New Executive Committee, New Members
- Eberly College of Science Board of Directors 2007-2010
- Eberly College of Science Dean's Advisory Board
- Then vs. Now photo feature
- Forensic Science Program Receives First Endowment
- Penn State Goes to the Jersey Shore
- Alumni Notes
- Obituaries
