IN THIS ISSUE

Message from the Dean

Research Rundown

• Fly-Fishing Scientist Finds Possible Missing Link in Insect Flight

• Research on New AIDS Medicines Suggests a New Generation of Drugs

• Long-Term Study Shows Polluted Ponds in Pennsylvania Hamper Salamander Reproduction

• Research Reveals How Neurotransmitters Move Within Neurons

• Technique Cuts Costs for Pollution Monitoring

• Surprising Hubble Images Challenge Quasar Theory

Postgraduate Premedicine Program
 

Undergraduate Update

• The Top 10 Reasons Why Penn State Science Students "Co-Op"

• Volunteers Needed to Help Women in Science and Engineering

Philanthropy

• Private Philanthopy Establishes Erwin Mueller Professorship in Physics

Honoris Causa

• Penn State Awards Faculty Scholar Medals to Kao and Wolszczan
• Benkovic Elected to the Institute of Medicine
• Rao Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Four Science Faculty Named Sloan Research Fellows
• Mueller and Nistor are NSF Young Investigators
• Natan Named Beckman Young Investigator
• Grigoriev Receives Max Planck Research Award
• Zhang Gets Dreyfus Award
• AAAS Fellows
• Species Named in Honor of President Thomas
• Fedorchak Honored for Excellence in Advising

New Department Head

New Faculty

Society Wrap-Up

• Jacobson Named Science Alumni Fellow

• Seven New Alumni Society Directors Named

• Paul Berg Receives Penn State Honorary Doctorate